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Kids these days: 13-year-old trades gun for friend's PSP in school |
Listed in: PSP Tags: Washington
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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 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....
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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
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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
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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.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqGsxwQpa_g
ROFL! ROFL! ROFL!
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hehehe
jk....
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not every kid is innocent.
Just because the father has guns doesn't immediately make him the @$$hole.
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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.
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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.
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With a gun you can sit back 500m behind a nice scope, just pull a trigger, look away and be done with it....
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yeah, but not trying to be racist, its just the way things are.........DS.....*sigh*
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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.
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