PT111
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ijusam wrote:
Very few 4 year-old can grasp the concept of death but they know all about hurting someoneand revenge. When my daughter was 4 they had a bad time at day-care with one child that would pinch, bite or hit the others with anything he could pick-up.
If a child has seen that a gun can inflict pain they certainly would use it if available. If they had watched someone load it and shoot it they could easily repeat that action. I seriously doubt that this child has any concept of what death or murder really means but I can easily see them getting a gun to try to get back at someone. To say that they don't have the physical abilites is vastly underestimating them. When I was 22 months old I got in our car and cranked it up and drove it onto the woodpile in the back yard. My parents learned then not to leave the keys in it.
ijusam wrote:
Carnivore wrote:ijusam wrote:
quote from article:
The boy, apparently angered that Beavers stepped on his foot, retrieved a shell from a drawer in a back bedroom, grabbed a 20-gauge single-shot shotgun from a closet and loaded the weapon, Ephlin said.
Your statement:
find it really hard to believe that at the point of the foot being stepped onand the wince from the pain the kid felt, that a 4 yr. old (boy or girl) decided someone needed to be killed..
I never implied a 4 yo understood the implications of shooting someone as opposed to hurting someone to get even.
when I was 5 a 10yo friend of my brother hurt me. I picked up a beebee gun (red ryder) with the intention of hurting him as I was physically unable to do so otherwise. I had no training other than watching my brother, but hit my target where I aimed (his backside). had it been a youth shotgun instead of a bee bee gun the boy could have been killed. After the welts on my backside subsided, we beganthe rest of my gun safety lessons.
anyone who been around children knows how vicious some of them can be. fortunately most can't inflict serious damage on others and are trained not to hit tommy when "he takes your toys". Unfortunately some lack the parenting that will correct these behaviours and we see the result of this in the news every day.
My point was that the mechanics are possible. Though the probability seems that the teens were the most likely suspects, I would be checking the boy for a bruise to his shoulder, fingers cut or bruised from the trigger guard, and GSR
Very few 4 year-old can grasp the concept of death but they know all about hurting someoneand revenge. When my daughter was 4 they had a bad time at day-care with one child that would pinch, bite or hit the others with anything he could pick-up.
If a child has seen that a gun can inflict pain they certainly would use it if available. If they had watched someone load it and shoot it they could easily repeat that action. I seriously doubt that this child has any concept of what death or murder really means but I can easily see them getting a gun to try to get back at someone. To say that they don't have the physical abilites is vastly underestimating them. When I was 22 months old I got in our car and cranked it up and drove it onto the woodpile in the back yard. My parents learned then not to leave the keys in it.