If the gun had nothing to do with this, then guns are pretty much useless and don't serve any purpose.
If the kid truly wanted the woman dead at any cost, he would have used anything to do it. He chose the gun.
Why is that?
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I'm with guccilvr:
He shouldn't be tried as an adult.
He isn't an adult.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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