Kids these days: 13-year-old trades gun for friend's PSP in school |
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"So mistah officah. How many PSPs will this get me if I traded it in?"
When I was a 13-year-old, I remember trading lunches with my classmates in middle school. These days, kids seem to be a bit more... extreme? Well, the PSP wasn't invented back then when I was in middle school, and I definitely wouldn't know what the going rate for a PSP would have been in terms of lunches.
For a student in Tacoma, Washington, though, the going rate for a PSP schoolyard trade-in - at least these days - is equivalent to his father's handgun.
Last Wednesday, Mason Middle School was under lockdown after a 13-year-old was seen carrying a gun in campus. The gun was immediately confiscated by the school officials, as were the ammunition the boy was also carrying with him. No one was hurt. The kid is in juvenile detention and faces expulsion from the school.
Upon questioning, it was found out that the kid took the gun from his father's collection so that he could trade it in for his friend's PSP. (A pretty bad trade if you asked me - guns are damned expensive, but that's obviously not the point here.)
More so, the father revealed that a second gun was also missing from his collection. Speculation arose that this other gun could still be in the school, which then prompted officials to issue a lockdown on the campus.
No follow ups on this report have been made so far. You can check out the video report through the Via link below.
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Via kirotv
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And I Didnt Hear A Damn Thing about this, that is idiotic but i can honestly say, that Tacoma Is Far From The Tacoma I Grew up in(and i was in a pretty bad Neighborhood to begin with), but these kids have gone retarded or something IDK, all i can say Is Moron and i really want to know why i heard nothing on the news of This
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Poor kid only wanted to get his game on.....
I found that Hilarious
the father should keep the gun in a safe place or else it will not be too long be a case like "13 yr gave a headshot to his father" !! So better keep this firearms out of children's reach.
Really stupid. Come on a 13-year-old can't tell which is more expensive? WTF?
When you have a country with millions of easily accessible weapons this sort of thing doesn't even slightly surprise me, Here in the UK i wouldn't have the first clue how to get a gun, but as long as the US is run like a business this is just stupidly easy to happen.
When you can get crossbow in sport shops.
And I live in Vancouver Canada. About 20 years ago a girl was assassined (yeah it was targetted.. not some random killing) in BCIT's parking lot with a crossbow and so far they haven't cracked that case.
However it is only 4 hrs drive across the border to Tacoma from here anyway....
In the UK where people can't legally defend themselves from attackers, violent knife crime is on the rise... oh, they banned knives too. Enjoy your Orwellian police state.
Enjoy cutting your steak with a s*****.
In all seriousness, violent crime in the UK is on a very sharp, steady increase while it's decreasing in the US.
Assaults are 7.5 per 1000 in the US while they're 7.4 per 1000 in the UK
I can't write sp oon?
I'm certainly not defending any method of murder but at least with a knife you have to make contact with your victim, but it only takes a coward to shoot someone.
you could, you know, stab them from behind
stab them when they're not expecting it
stab them while they're intoxicated
distract them and have someone stab them
stab them while they're sleeping or passed out
stab them...
should I continue or is this red herring argument going anywhere?
itt chav scum
Sounds about right. Just the other day I was offered two handguns and 3 clips for my Wii.
Maybe they thought you meant a sexual s*****. Hate to be at that dinner.
it is the father that is the main problem here not the kid
man the wii sucks, no good enuph games for it
but the psp, im not sure there...
i dont thinks it worth it, not at the risk of not difending your self and gitting your head blwn off, i would keep the gun.
I don´t know why, but when i hear this stupid news i think is sony who is paying people ( in this case, that ki´s parents ) to do stupid things for publicity´s purpose. It`s a weird idea and maybe this comment will be erased...but, what do u think?
Yep, it's a sick plot by Sony to get PSPs linked to under aged arms trafficking so that adolescent smugglers will carry there systems along with drugs and gun, which would eventually make its way to 3rd world countries, thus getting the hapless denizens of that country addicted to there games, which would in turn let Sony rule said country with a iron fist.
P o o n is the work that they're blocking. Which is another word for vagina (hope they dont block that)
but the picture of a child holding a gun with both hands with the sepia effect looks very professionally made. can you please tell me where to get a better resolution of the picture?
who r u $ony? there are better ways to make publicity. Make Mr. Koller drop his pants in front of middle school-ers and sing "happyy happy joy joy" from ren & stimpy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqGsxwQpa_g
ROFL! ROFL! ROFL!
i suppose your going to iraq in a middle of a battle with only a knife pretending to be some kind of a super hero right?
is it a white kid or a black kid??? (maybe mexican or over the boarder kid XD)
hehehe
jk....
How do you know the kid didn't find the key to the gunlocker and stole them?
not every kid is innocent.
Just because the father has guns doesn't immediately make him the @$$hole.
Who said he didn't have it locked up?
Kid stole key, unlocked gunlocker/safe, traded gun at school...
The father should have taught his son about the importance of gun safety and how to shoot.
That way in this case it would have been that much "safer". Even though nobody got hurt.
Then the father needs to keep a better eye on the key....or get a combo lock so only he knows how to open it....
Also, no one ever said there was a gunlocker, so maybe he really is extra stupid.
Also, he obviously doesn't keep an eye on his guns like he should if it took this incident to make him realise he was missing a 2nd gun....
Sorry, the father is a retard....but most people that feel the need to have handguns in their home are.
I love cutting my steak with vagina...
I think the point he was making is that you have to be close up to the person and actually feel the knife enter their body and possibly get blood on you....which is possible in all the scenarios you listed, other than getting someone else to do it.
With a gun you can sit back 500m behind a nice scope, just pull a trigger, look away and be done with it....
That F U ckin awesome. Nice.
if you check up on the news, its 99.9% of this crazy jazz that its white, except for that guy of latin decent that went crazy and left a note about the PS3 for his buddy?
yeah, but not trying to be racist, its just the way things are.........DS.....*sigh*
LOL My blonde 13 year old sister isn't nearly that dumb and she can be pretty dumb at times, but we always laugh about it.
My dad keeps his crossbow on top of his wardrobe that he use to shoot water jugs and hay bales with which is easily reachable by all of the kids in the house now, but no one is gonna touch it. I don't know if there are even any arrows anymore.
They just need to ban guns, all they do is hurt people there is absolutely no good that comes from guns.