Unbelievable

[Alan]

Came across this

The Jonesboro school massacre

occurred on Tuesday, March 24, 1998, in Craighead County, Arkansas, near northwestern Jonesboro. Four female students and a teacher were killed, and nine other students and a teacher were wounded, by two armed middle school boys: Mitchell Johnson, age 13, and Andrew Golden, age 11.

Here comes an even crazier part

Mitchell Johnson was released from custody on August 11, 2005, his 21st birthday. Andrew Golden will follow on May 25, 2007. The two will have "clean slates" with no legal restrictions placed upon them and clean criminal records. Many members of the Jonesboro community have since expressed outrage, citing the facts that they will not be placed under any supervision and will be able to legally purchase firearms.

Mitchell Johnson was arrested on New Year's Day 2007 while riding in a van with his roommate, Justin Trammell, who was convicted in Benton County, Arkansas, for killing his father in 1999 with a crossbow. Trammell was the first youth in Arkansas convicted under the Extended Juvenile Adjudication Act. The law allows for combined juvenile and adult sentences upon conviction of those younger than 18. It was passed in response to the Jonesboro school shootings. Johnson was arrested on misdemeanor charges of possessing a controlled substance (marijuana) and carrying a prohibited weapon (loaded 9mm pistol). (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette; Date:2007 Jan 10; by Michelle Bradford and Kenneth Heard)

 

[|tera|]

Alan, I like you bro, but please post stuff like this in the news and current affairs section

 

[Alan]

Alan, I like you bro, but please post stuff like this in the news and current affairs section

Oops sorry

Maybe a mod can move it

 

[bwana]

Oops sorry

Maybe a mod can move it

OK - moved it bro

 

[BTTB]

This reminds of an episode when we caught a youth on our property who had just jumped over a mutual boundary wall in the middle of the day.
I detained the fellow and called ADT.

When ADT arrived on the scene, it turned out that this youngster was a career criminal according to the ADT Officer and the Officer reckons for all we know he was casing the place out for later "shopping".
When it came to the question of firearms and what this young individual could possibly do if confronted or put into a situation (use imagination) the ADT Officer reckoned that this young villain as young as he may seem is just as capable of pulling a trigger of any firearm as any other gangster or career criminal his elder.