Letter: Pray for compassion in justice system

[Robert]

I also am glad nobody got hurt. So give the kid a chance before his life is thrown away.

Robert

Old Hound Dog wrote:

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Wow, those are strong words to call someone "white trash". I hope someone will help you with such a potty mouth. You must think so high of yourself to be so cruel to degrade someone with such prejudices. This young man was at the beginning of his life really. These are the years that children, teens do stupid things due to emotions. Some teens actually commit sucide. I don't know if he should of been tried as an adult, but he needed punishment. He did not know that the other person was not at school. I can see both sides here. I'm just glad that no other innocent that did not know what was going on got hurt.

[Robert]

Thankfully no one was hurt. So give this kid a chance. Don't throw his life away for a stupid teenage mistake.

Robert

[thrown]

he CHOSE to throw his life away when he walked onto that campus with a gun in tow.
give the rest of our kids a chance before some other selfish Gregory wannabe throws their lives away.

[Away]

People of intelligence realized along time ago that teenagers don't always make rational choices. Thats why we have different courts for juveniles and adults. It is now a well established fact that none of the kids who were present that day were ever in harms way except from the snipers and SWAT people lurking on the roof of the school.

Away

thrown wrote:

he CHOSE to throw his life away when he walked onto that campus with a gun in tow.
give the rest of our kids a chance before some other selfish Gregory wannabe throws their lives away.

[Old Hound Dog]

thrown wrote:

he CHOSE to throw his life away when he walked onto that campus with a gun in tow.
give the rest of our kids a chance before some other selfish Gregory wannabe throws their lives away.

I sense your fear and realize that the day could of turned out worst. We can sit here at our computers and says things like "what if" all we want. But I believe the day went well with no one getting hurt. I just really didn't think he needed tried as an adult. By the time that boy gets out, he will be institutionalized and unable to find work due to this and a crime he committed as a teen. How does that help society in the future? There are no agencies to help him after he spent his youth in prison. Now we will have an adult male, no skills, no education to speak of really, with a prison mental process and how did that help him? How does that help society?

Maybe you don't care about that. It is easy to feel self rightous and self important, but we as a society bear the fruits of these decisions we make today. So I am concerned about this young teen.

I believe he should of suffered punishment for his actions, I'm just not convinced I agree with the serverity of his punishment.

With budget cuts and schools being torn apart, I suppose there are no ways for counselors to help these kids during the teen years when emotions run high. This is really a sad affair.

[Pleased]

God bless you "Old Hound Dog" for your compassionate and intelligent comment.

Pleased

Old Hound Dog wrote:

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I sense your fear and realize that the day could of turned out worst. We can sit here at our computers and says things like "what if" all we want. But I believe the day went well with no one getting hurt. I just really didn't think he needed tried as an adult. By the time that boy gets out, he will be institutionalized and unable to find work due to this and a crime he committed as a teen. How does that help society in the future? There are no agencies to help him after he spent his youth in prison. Now we will have an adult male, no skills, no education to speak of really, with a prison mental process and how did that help him? How does that help society?
Maybe you don't care about that. It is easy to feel self rightous and self important, but we as a society bear the fruits of these decisions we make today. So I am concerned about this young teen.
I believe he should of suffered punishment for his actions, I'm just not convinced I agree with the serverity of his punishment.
With budget cuts and schools being torn apart, I suppose there are no ways for counselors to help these kids during the teen years when emotions run high. This is really a sad affair.

[Food for thought]

Away wrote:

People of intelligence realized along time ago that teenagers don't always make rational choices. Thats why we have different courts for juveniles and adults. It is now a well established fact that none of the kids who were present that day were ever in harms way except from the snipers and SWAT people lurking on the roof of the school.
Away <quoted text>

I'm sure if you had a child there you would think differently.

[Away]

Actually I had two children in the classroom at the time of the incident and they said that they never felt threatened by Greg Wright.

Away

Food for thought wrote:

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I'm sure if you had a child there you would think differently.