Meanwhile, en France, a 13-year-old planned to blow away several of his schoolteachers. Here's a telling factoid: The kid's parents called the cops when they noticed that he had swiped "the family gun."
Which brings to mind a few questions.
First, we have the family kitchen table and a family room (actually, we don't, because our house is so damn small that every room is a "family" room, but I digress), and maybe one day when I need a more aggressive hobby than blogging I could conceivably buy my own gun, but I can't imagine having a "family gun," unless it was some old nonworking heirloom, like a musket.
(And the kid would get off only one shot with the musket before he's tackled, since reloading the thing is a long and laborious process.)
Also, how did the parents know that the gun was missing? Is it in such a high-trafficked area that it was easy to notice that it was gone (meaning that it was easily accessible to an unbalanced 13-year-old)?
Finally, for the parents to call the cops after noticing the gun was missing, they must have (accurately) expected the worst, meaning they probably knew their kid was probably in bad shape, meaning maybe they shouldn't have kept a gun so easily within reach.
The kid bailed when he saw all the cops in front of the school, assuming that there wasn't some other kid going off the rails that day, and did the next-worst thing: he went to a "cyber cafe," where he was arrested.
No word on the status of the family gun. We hope it's OK. Read more...
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