# Bored teens with guns. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 20, 2013, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bored-teens-with-guns/666752 "2013-08-20T22:20:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![sisu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@sisu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sisu)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bored-teens-with-guns/666752/41 "2013-08-22T02:43:59Z")
> [@Bob\_Blaylock](#): > > And yet, murders happen in Australia at a comparable rate to that at which they occur here in the U.S. c’mon I mean this is such a dumb comment. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bored-teens-with-guns/666752/42 "2013-08-22T02:49:31Z")
> [@Not\_Carlson](#): > > And risk falling off my high horse? > No thanks. Puh-lease! My head is so far up my ass I’m levitating. Ought to be right at lip level. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Terr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@Terr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terr)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bored-teens-with-guns/666752/43 "2013-08-22T04:28:57Z")
Jesse Jackson yesterday decided that he’d weigh in on Christopher Lane murder - he was very eloquent in his rage at the murder. He unequivocally stated in his tweet that such “senseless violence” should be “frowned upon”! ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bored-teens-with-guns/666752/44 "2013-08-22T05:24:32Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > I think what the media really needs to play up in these cases is not so much the sensationalism, but the consequences. > > These young men will spend most of the rest of their lives behind bars. The best years of their lives, where they should be working, going to school, dating, getting married, having kids, owning a house, seeing the world. > > Because as of now, they get none of that. They just threw away all of those normal and good life experiences that they could have had, on a moment of terrifying stupidity. The consequences are pretty ironic. These guys were bored so they killed somebody. Now they’ll spend decades in prison, which is pretty much the most boring place of Earth. ---
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bored-teens-with-guns/666752/45 "2013-08-22T06:06:07Z")
Hats off to Dr. Butts. At least a double whoosh, not sure I’ve seen this before. A rare sighting! Well crafted, Dr! ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bored-teens-with-guns/666752/46 "2013-08-22T15:00:23Z")
I think “we were bored” is what you say when you don’t have shit to say for yourself at all. It’s also only the word of the little pussy snitch and then repeated over and over by that spokesguy and the media. Looks more like they went hunting a nice young (presumably) rich white guy in an affluent neighborhood. Possibly for gang cred, but the “crips” story looks fishy. Maybe just “imagined street cred.” ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bored-teens-with-guns/666752/47 "2013-08-22T15:13:39Z")
It’s just a media beat up because the victim is a non-American. If you guys can just make sure that the thousands of gun homicides every year are restricted to American victims no-one will care. Although the regular multi-victim massacres will still draw our attention. ---
**Author:** ![Uber\_the\_Goober](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/58956e/32.png) [@Uber\_the\_Goober](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uber_the_Goober)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bored-teens-with-guns/666752/48 "2013-08-22T16:11:17Z")
> [@L. G. Butts](#): > > This would never have happened if the college student was armed so he could defend himself. When are people going to realize that trying to limit peoples constitutional rights to carry guns on college campuses is always going to end in the kind of tragedy. He would have seen the teens drive up behind him, pulled the gun out of his JOGGING SHORTS, and shot them first? WTF? ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bored-teens-with-guns/666752/49 "2013-08-22T17:12:35Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > Sick - just repulsive - glad I left Oklahoma this spring. Since gun murders only happen in Oklahoma that was a smart move. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bored-teens-with-guns/666752/50 "2013-08-22T17:56:38Z")
I didn’t know they played baseball in Australia. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bored-teens-with-guns/666752/51 "2013-08-22T18:28:22Z")
If it’s anything like “Australian Rules Football” it’s a contact sport! ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bored-teens-with-guns/666752/52 "2013-08-22T19:27:15Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > If it’s anything like “Australian Rules Football” it’s a contact sport! 🙂 I think I saw it on a satellite feed once. Guys in their underwear, and they could not throw the ball forward. There was an ambulance parked at the field. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bored-teens-with-guns/666752/53 "2013-08-23T00:47:16Z")
> [@Terr](#): > > Jesse Jackson yesterday decided that he’d weigh in on Christopher Lane murder - he was very eloquent in his rage at the murder. He unequivocally stated in his tweet that such “senseless violence” should be “frowned upon”! Well, shouldn’t it? He did go into more detail today: [http://thehill.com/video/in-the-news/318371-jackson-right-wrong-to-compare-trayvon-to-lane](http://thehill.com/video/in-the-news/318371-jackson-right-wrong-to-compare-trayvon-to-lane) ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bored-teens-with-guns/666752/54 "2013-08-23T02:57:16Z")
> [@Captain\_Amazing](#): > > Well, shouldn’t it? > > He did go into more detail today: > > [http://thehill.com/video/in-the-news/318371-jackson-right-wrong-to-compare-trayvon-to-lane](http://thehill.com/video/in-the-news/318371-jackson-right-wrong-to-compare-trayvon-to-lane) Good for him. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bored-teens-with-guns/666752/55 "2013-08-23T13:28:58Z")
[CNN reports](http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/21/justice/australia-student-killed-oklahoma/index.html?hpt=hp_c2) that one of the suspects tweeted prior what could be seen as motive and intent: April: “90% of white ppl (people) are nasty. #HATE THEM.” 3 days before: “With my n\*\*\*\*s when it’s time to start taken life’s” A reasonable case can now be made that these weren’t ‘bored kids with guns’ but racists and that this murder was a racially motivated hate crime. I’m not sure if the prosecutor feels that they could win the case after upgrading this to a “hate crime”, but it can now be reasonably argued that this is what happened. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2013, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bored-teens-with-guns/666752/56 "2013-08-27T20:12:23Z")
[Now we have teens shooting a one-year-old](http://www.wboc.com/story/23269158/ga-mother-testifies-against-accused-baby-shooter) and (allegedly) [a pastor](http://www.actionnewsjax.com/content/topstories/story/Pastor-says-he-was-shot-by-alleged-baby-killer/A7P-CIs2xUaphlEv9VByRA.cspx). ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2013, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bored-teens-with-guns/666752/57 "2013-08-27T21:17:23Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > [Now we have teens shooting a one-year-old](http://www.wboc.com/story/23269158/ga-mother-testifies-against-accused-baby-shooter) and (allegedly) [a pastor](http://www.actionnewsjax.com/content/topstories/story/Pastor-says-he-was-shot-by-alleged-baby-killer/A7P-CIs2xUaphlEv9VByRA.cspx). With a revolver, not one of the semi autos banned in Australia. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bored-teens-with-guns/666752.md?page=2)