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13 year old boy faces felony charge for shooting friend with an Airsoft gun.
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February 1st, 2011 at 10:10 am
Colorado won’t prosecute Kobe but they will prosecute a 13 year old with an airsoft?
February 1st, 2011 at 10:23 am
Markie Marxist sez: “He sounds like a future NRA member. Felonious political incorrectness is a very, very serious crime that should be taken very, very seriously. Of course, he could have done more damage with a poke of his finger, but it’s the politically incorrect way that he caused the injury that offends our Marxist sensibilities. Don’t we have a gulag for juveniles?”
February 1st, 2011 at 10:47 am
Shootin’ Buddy, Colorado did try prosecute Kobe. Well, Eagle County DA tried.
Frankly, I’m not sure I am generating that much sympathy in this one.
February 1st, 2011 at 2:07 pm
it’s the victim’s (idiot 2)fault for not having eye protection.
February 1st, 2011 at 2:12 pm
“But the Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office says they take many factors into account, and when they decide to file charges it’s because they believe it’s in the best interest of the child.”
How is ruining a kid’s life before it’s really gotten started “in the best interest of the child”?
The Jefferson county DA needs to have a airsoft gun jammed up his ass!
February 1st, 2011 at 3:20 pm
My 11 year old, now 12, is going through the courts over a similar incident. They originally wanted to charge him with assault with a deadly weapon… Once I laughed at them for a while over that, they realized that I was dead serious that I would demand that the state submit the $20 airsoft gun for ballistic testing to prove that it could be deadly.
So they changed the charge to simple assault… In order to avoid 6 months of a stupid ass trial and a lot of missed work, the diversion plan is that he writes a paper on gun safety and does 3 hours of community service…
I am still not happy with the whole thing but it is perhaps the easiest solution.
February 1st, 2011 at 6:20 pm
If some people could turn all young men into felons, they’d do it. Felons may exercise very few rights, you see.
February 2nd, 2011 at 10:13 am
There are times I wish the state couldn’t press charges on their own. (Article says the victim isn’t interested, right?)
February 2nd, 2011 at 11:06 am
“it’s the victim’s (idiot 2)fault for not having eye protection.”
… And not the one who, you know aimed and pulled the trigger?
Two drunks in an argument. One puts the other’s eye out with a dart from the formerly friendly game they were having. I think we can all agree that he should be charged, because even “just a dart” was used as a weapon.
This boy was an idiot, caused bodily harm to another, I see the same crime here.
Gun owners talk all the time about how ridiculous gun-control is because just about anything can be a weapon and that it is a mindset that kills/maims, not an inanimate object.
Now, some of us excuse an assault because it was “just a toy.”
It was “just a toy” and it was used as a weapon and someone did get hurt. I say he has earned the charges and zero empathy from me.
February 2nd, 2011 at 4:45 pm
“The other boy was treated and is fine with no permanent injuries. Police reports say his family did not want to press charges, and Jacob says he and his friend have made up. ”
No harm, no foul, no desire on the victim’s part to press charges.