That incident thankfully did not claim any lives, and to claim otherwise would be a gross exaggeration. It appears there was some sort of party at a nearby location and it got out of hand and spilled over at that gas station. I'm willing to bet said party was most likely unsupervised and alcohol may very well have been present, which can be a deadly combination. Such begs the question where the hell are the adults at, someone should have been watching over those kids.- [news10.com]

For the umpteenth time, the problem is not guns or what you perceive to be gun violence, there is only violent actions that may (or may not at times) include using guns. Even if somehow we could manage to remove all of the guns from society, the problem with youth violence would still exist and still pose a problem. Do we keep track of those murdered with other weapons and tools like knives or blunt instruments like baseball bats? Many people die each year by bladed weapons, but do we call that knife violence? Of course not, because the weapon or tool used would be beside the point, the violent intentions are what the problem really is. And yeah, criminals still will and do get their hands on guns regardless of the laws, with big help from the thriving black markets.

If it wasn't for so many restrictive laws, there would be more good guys with guns, and certainly more random shooting incidents stopped dead in their tracks. If one actually took the time to research this stuff properly and from an unbiased position, one would find no shortage of documented incidents of good guys who were armed and saved their lives and the lives of others from crazed criminals bent on causing harm to others.

So you don't believe young kids can hold criminal tendencies? If so, I'd like to invite you here to the city of Allentown or Philadelphia and I could show you just how serious of a problem youth crime and violent gangs really are. That's no joke, and it's truly naive for anyone to think that young kids absolutely could never be prone to criminal tendencies. This was a good story that took place last year, and you can't blame the guns that time, and is proof that young kids can be and are capable of violently criminal deeds, and I do mean sick and depraved at that, and I defy anyone to try to claim otherwise.- [newsweek.com]

Did you ever stop to think that alot of that is needless fearmongering, and kids often times believe whatever adults tell them when it comes to situations like that. Maybe perhaps cut down a bit on the scaremongering and maybe these kids won't feel so paranoid. Their odds of getting killed in a car accident are higher than getting killed in school.

That can't yet read or do multiplication? I could do both by age eight, as I'm sure many other ones that age could as well. Do you really think young kids are either that stupid or helpless? If I had to, by age six or seven I could have fired a gun, as from an early age my father taught me how to shoot and gun safety protocol. Street drugs and guns are all too common a thing here in the city, and somehow even really young kids can get their hands on such, all they have to do is pick a few pockets during the local Fair or carnival or steal money from their parents or even other kids, and that's the reality we live in. Guns aren't the problem, never were, and before 1986 many citizens owned fully automatic firearms and yet mass shootings were rare back then. Nevermind the obvious fact most crimes involving gun usage involved handguns and not those dreaded assault rifles, but that little fact doesn't matter to the gun control crowd though.