Bruce Castor, Jr.. "Parents must take responsibility for raising their children"

[SoCalDem]

This city official was just on CNN regarding the 14 yr old would-be school shooter..

Um.. this kid was HOME SCHOOLED, so someone one WAS there with him a lot of time time, so why did no one in that home notice that the guy was a teen-aged Blackwater wannabee who planned to shoot up a school he did not even attend?

Excluding this kid and many like him, parents get little or NO assistance raising those kids anymore, folks..

Most parents of teens are BOTH working long hours (especially true in single-parent homes)

The social fabric of our country is somehow seriously ripped.. teens have always had "problems".. That's what the teen years are mostly about.:(.. but the inclination to stockpile weapons, and go on a shooting spree is a fairly recent phenomenon..

There are some really pissed off, disturbed young people out there.. We have GOT to get some universal mental health care for them and their families.. i think there are many families who are just hoping & praying that their kid "outgrows it".:(

That being said, I can imagine many parents doing a serious "room-search" this weekend..

[havocmom]

1. Some of the most pissed off, in need of counseling kids I know are home schooled

Sadly, their parents are not likely to be warm to the idea of mental health care.

[monktonman]

2. You just answered your own question.

When I was fourteen, I'd have to hide my weed outside of the house under a rock.
There was no way I was going to have something in the house my parents didnt know about.
My folks worked long hours as well and werent around all the time to keep an eye on me.

This kid was home-schooled? How does a home-schooled kid stockpile weapons and black
powder for bomb making without his home-school parents knowing about it? Only one way,
they werent paying attention or just didnt care.

While I'm certainly no authoritarian, parents need to take some responsibility for the actions
of their children. Believe me, if I found a book on bomb making in my sons room there would be hell to pay and as far as I'm concerned they should be sitting in the cell right next to
their creep son.

[PRETZEL]

3. Just talked to my daughter

who goes to that school.

She didn't know more than what the news was telling.

[Hangingon]

4. I didn't see CNN but Fox had a story about a Pa. kid who

was planning a Columbine event - same one? The Fox story showed a table with some serious weaponry - AK, PRK, assault shot guns and a pistol. It also showed "Goth" style sword/knife hilts. Where does a 14 year old get this kind of weaponnry and the money to buy iy? Guns and ammo are expensive.

Yes the social fabric has some big holes. The games kids are playing - FSP or First Person Shooter - like HALO (Not the oly game by any means) are extremely violent. Movies and television are full of shooting and mayhem. These are some things that should be addressed.

HOME SCHOOLED doesn't mean that there is an adult present. Some kids get home schooled to get them out of a regular school just before suspension or expulsion.

[PRETZEL]

5. same one,

Haven't seen any of the news shows since this morning so not sure if any new events have developed. What my daughter did say was that this kid would have been a freshman this year.

[Hangingon]

6. Just saw it on CNN

aparently the weapons except for a 9 mil were air guns. Look pretty real don't they.

[benEzra]

7. Those were TOY guns. Airsofts.

Turns out the kid had one cheaply made, low-capacity 9mm pistol-caliber carbine (Hi-Point) that his mother had purchased for him, and reportedly a .22LR rifle and .22LR pistol he kept at a friend's house. The other guns were Airsofts (toy guns that shoot harmless plastic pellets, not even BB guns), laid out dramatically on the table for the benefit of the gullible media. Someone at the PD apparently felt that would be good for the media attention, and that the MSM would be gullible enough to uncritically report "OMG! kid with huge arsenal!"

What the kid did have was worrisome enough, certainly, but it wasn't the arsenal the MSM implied.