Going out on a limb here. This is going to be controversial, but I am seriously against this. I mean, I know babies are known to talk a lot of shit, but this is where I draw the line.
A six-month old baby was shot in Chicago last week. The target was the father, the position the baby was actually in, inside the vehicle, is still unclear. Whether the baby was deliberately shot at as well as the father is unknown, the shooter is still at large. The father was hit but is fine, the baby died after many hours of surgery.
It’s horrible, and I have no doubt the father knows who shot him and his baby, but he’s not talking.
(If this is in response to what I said) Yeah but then it says he tried to grab her purse and she just repeated that she didn’t have any money (which may or may not have been true), instead of letting him have the purse. Not that I blame her a bit, but of course when something like that happens you can’t help but torture yourself with “what ifs”.
Every time I see that I hear it in Mr. Mackey’s voice.
“Hey kids, shootin’ babies is bad, you shouldn’t shoot babies, m’kay. If you shoot babies, you’re bad, ‘cause shootin’ babies is bad, m’kay? It’s a bad thing, to shoot babies, so don’t be bad, by shootin’ babies, m’kay?”
Now you’ve got me doing it. What this thread really needs is someone to take the position of devil’s advocate. A pit thread should not have Kumbayliant Agreeance. It should have a drunk uncle to give us something to push against.
It’s all very strange - no witnesses but those involved, this mom’s other son was stabbed to death in the commission of a robbery as a teenager; it’s all so Susan Smith from the spotty details I’ve read. They picked up two black teens but she said one was a child of 5 years old who ran off first.
Something smells very bad here.
Y’know, I really hate to bring a gun-debate into this thread as tragic as it is. My heart bleeds for the mum and the family that have to live with the death of their sweet baby boy.
But teenagers having guns? For random hold-ups? Just doesn’t happen in countries that view owning guns as the exception rather than the norm. (Yes, I’m sure some of you will dig out a cite that it HAS happened, once, for 20 minutes back in 1964 or whenever), but my point remains.
When you, as a society, accept the notion of gun ownership as a fucking inalienable RIGHT, then shit like this happens. Sure, the guns probably weren’t owned by the accused, but who fucking cares…they had pretty sweet access to the weapons all the same. And they went and blew a little baby’s brains out…for a few bucks? Or for shits and giggles?