MySpace message foils school shooting plot

Talk about your idiot criminals. As if planning another shooting rampage on the anniversary of the Columbine incident wasn’t stupid enough, five Kansas high school students were arrested after posting a message threatening to do just that on one of the students’ MySpace Web pages. Apparently one of them even went so far as to give details to a woman he was chatting with on MySpace. After receiving this information she promptly told authorities in her state, North Carolina, who contacted authorities in Kansas. After figuring out who the boys were, their homes and lockers were searched. Guns, ammunition, knives and coded messages were found in the bedroom of one suspect, Sheriff Steve Norman said. Authorities also found documents about firearms and references to Armageddon in two suspects’ school lockers.

Of the five suspects, one is 18 and the others are between 16 and 17. What gets me is the prosecution is trying to decide whether they should be tried as adults. How exactly is this a hard decision? They had plans in place to murder around a dozen people. Not only should they be tried as adults but also as terrorists. Our country seems to think that because someone is between 16 and18 they deserve some kind of break for being “kids.” I hate to break it to the American justice system but if a “child” is 16 or older and planning to walk into a school and kill at least a dozen people, they are very aware of what the consequences will be.

A lot of the problem here is not just the parents’ apparent lack of attention and inability to properly raise a child but also the whining bunch of brats who are currently being raised in this country. It appears that this group of boys was targeting a select group of popular students, possibly because they had been bullied by them. Has our nation become such a pansy version of its former self that a little teasing is grounds for capital punishment by the children being teased? Is it completely unthinkable that these boys could stand up for themselves, especially considering how it was a group of five of them, without resorting to the use of firearms? Apparently so, and it is really disgusting that the parents of these boys obviously had no clue what they were doing if they have purchased (or stolen) firearms and ammunition.

I can almost guarantee that this group of would-be spree murderers will likely walk away with what will amount to a slap on the wrist. Yet had these boys claimed some hatred for America they would stand trial as terrorists because if you take away the cute schoolboy faces, that’s all they are. What makes them different than five grown men plotting to fly a plane into a building in New York? Nothing. They planned to carry out this attack hoping to teach these students a “lesson” and were well aware of the panic and terror that would ensue during and after their spree.

Now as they are hauled away, we can only sit and watch as they make up some bizarre defense about how they were teased by other students and their only way out was to kill a dozen people. Let’s try bringing charges against the parents, too, for once. Maybe if we can take down a few neglectful parents along with their spoiled kids then we can actually make a dent in the huge problem of whining adolescents.