Child Kills Burglar with Mom's Gun! Bravo!

What are the other factors? We don't know. HE felt he could not safely flee, or he would have done so. Who are YOU to second-guess him from thousands of miles away? The guys that tried to rob him were his neighbors. Who is to say he had anywhere safe to flee to? Certainly not someone in a different time-zone, much less a different country.

 

Somehow where I live is relevant - that's a new one. His first thought was to get a gun (affidavit) as that was ingrained into him. They were neighbours? Source please.

 

You're kidding right?

Kids can use guns but not have sex or drink alcohol?

Something's not quite consistent here.

 

You're really torturing the facts that are known. First - no one wants anyone to risk their life, we want them to defend themselves.

"I'm so proud that my child died trying to protect my tv. I must be such a wonderful parent". Which poster are you quoting??????????? Oh that's right you just made it up.
Second - How do you know what those armed men wanted?????? Where you in on the plot????????

The kid was 13 and you're trying to make him sound like a toddler.

Are you proud you taught your children to be cowards?????

 

Bingo.

The ordeal is over. The only person hurt, was the one who deserved it.
But the kid, his friends, family and neighbors are safe and thankful.

At this point, this poster is just choosing to remain angry about the parenting involved.
Claiming the kid was protecting a TV and not his own life.

 

Well personally, I'd much rather have my 13 yr old son talking to a shrink than lying dead in his coffin.......how about you and yours? What would you prefer for your son?

 

IMO, the parenting here was right on. The kid was taught about weapons and only when to use it. Yeah, I seriously doubt it also that he was thinking of the tv and not the possibility he would be killed if they got into his house and he had no way out.........

 

Armed intruders = threat to personal safety.

 

He was not taught about weapons and he did have a way out

 

Ok, let's say you're right and he was not taught about weapons - altho how would you know that he wasn't? But assuming you're right, so the 13 yr old showed he had common sense by not messing around w/the gun since there's no previous reports of mishaps/accidental shootings.

Where is it stated that he had a way out of the house?

When someone knows there's more than one thug outside the house, it's not smart to leave the house and put yourself out there to be seen, very possibly caught and even killed. You stay behind closed doors w/a phone and 911 in your hand.

Are you implying that you think it was wrong for the kid to shoot them?

The Truth here is that the thugs made a choice to commit a crime, which also put themselves in danger, but they did it anyway and the justice is that they lost by one of the them forfeiting his own life and not the innocent 13 yr old.......and off to the pokey the other goes giving up a big chunk of his life.

Now how sweet is that?

 

In SC there is no duty to retreat from your home; in your home, the state must have probable cause to believe you did not act in self-defense before it can arrest you.
So, the fact that he may have had a way out is immaterial.

 

His mum said that he was never trained to use a gun.

The boy was at the back door. He ran through the house to the front door and carried on shooting at the fleeing car. So two exit/entrances from the house. How many times are people going to post the same things such as the boy did not know how many burglars there were yet he then goes outside to carry on firing.

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I don't care what happened to the burglars

 

Really, that's your come back. Run like a scared little girl. And seems he knew enough.

 

Please show me where a news article states that he ran out of the front door to shoot. I can't recall reading that it specified that.

 

" A neighbor sitting in his driveway with his girlfriend during the alleged break-in described a burst of gunfire coming from the home.

"We heard like four or five gunshots coming from the back and then a car came creeping from the backyard," John Griffin told WCBD. "It went slow and then the dude went in the front door and he just started shooting his gun, so I ducked down and (my girlfriend) ran in the house."


http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...-shoots-burglar-wounds-second-suspect-n462006

 

Thank you, that's the first time I read that.

 

It is relevant because you would have to have BEEN THERE to be making the assumptions you are making. That you are an ocean away means your opinion is conjecture and supposition.

...case in point.

 

Not always.

One would hope so but I'll go with the child. They kill fewer people and it's more likely
by accident.