Kids With Guns, AGAIN.

Friday  February 8, 2013

I can't get my head around any of this anymore.

Having being a child ages ago in what now seems like some utopian fairy world, part of me thinks we hover around our kids too much now, worry about their feelings, their grades, their friends, what they are climbing, eating, doing, putting their heads in helmets and teeth in braces as soon as we bring them home from the hospital, that we have filleted them and created a bunch of spineless, indecisive, over-sensitive wafflers who will grow up alarmingly unfit to take care of the themselves let alone the future and the world and our collective needs as their old age citizens. 

But then there is the other part of me that cannot believe the way the world has changed with classes that are over crowded, swacks of kids are coded, families that are decimated, kids that have felt deep, debilitating, core rattling hurt before they get their first paper cut and - where some can't wipe their own butt without help, others are child gangsters and every week there is another story like this one below from last night’s news.

And I, what? in my naive bubble? walk around all day wondering; where did these kids come up with the idea to kill? where did they get guns? how did they make it past breakfast without anyone realizing they were heading to school to murder friends? Am I naive? Sane, while the rest of the world is crazy? A moron for having kids?

These children are in grade 5! What the fuck is going on? 

Student caught carrying a knife, gun and ammunition

KREM.com

Posted on February 7, 2013 at 12:40 PM

Updated today at 5:36 AM

COLVILLE, Wash. -- One student was caught with a knife, gun and ammunition in his backpack on Thursday according to Colville School District employees.  District leaders confirmed that the Fort Colville Elementary School student and a friend admitted to wanting to hurt as many as seven students.

Both 5th grade students were expelled and were taken into police custody, said Superintendent Michael Cashion.

He credits another student for warning school staff. The boy spotted a knife in another student’s backpack and notified staff at Fort Colville according to Cashion.  School administrators searched the backpack. Cashion said they found a knife, gun and ammunition. However, Cashion added that the gun was not loaded.

The student admitted that he and friend planned to hurt his girlfriend. Both students were then questioned according to Cashion. Both students then confessed to wanting to hurt other students as well.

District leaders could not confirm how the students obtained the weapons. Police are working to track the gun through registration. 

The Stevens Co. prosectuor says children of this age are usually too young to face charges, but they are still looking into the possibility because of the severity of the allegations.