Omigod, stop seducing me.

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Roger Moore was James Bond. Michael Moore is the obese, fur-faced docu-dork. Just pointing it out because I often hate his guts.

Bowling for Columbine isn't exactly a pro-gun or scholarly source, though. It's got more lean than the tower at Pisa.

There seems to be a disconnect between why we try adults as criminals and why we try children differently.

We don't try children as criminals because it is more productive to instead treat them as children in need of guidance, assistance, direction, and simply help. A child is not yet fully developed. Lawmakers and politicians have recognized this and have put juvenile systems and laws in place for that reason.

We have men's prisons and women's prisons. I think it should be obvious why we don't have children's prisons. Or are we suggesting we put prepubescents in adult prisons?

FYI, we do have prisons for children. They are called juvenile detention centers.

Point taken, but they're not quite the same thing.

Because children aren't the same as adults.

Kids. "Age of Reason." Deep ethical stuff.

lol, Roger Moore...sorry about that. good thing willravel isn't around.

and I don't mean to use Bowling for Columbine as a pro-gun source and I am not a pro-gun person. I only meant to use the statistics that he purported in the film...if they are incorrect then so be it

an 11 year old being tried as an adult is lunacy.

Ok, maybe i didn't know the consiquences of all my actions, but the big ones i did. Granted he probably won't understand the finer points of tax law, but it is pretty obvious that when you shoot someone, they die. As a younger kid i thought that was what always happened, you could shoot someone in the foot and immediatly they would keel over and die (damn the movies). If the kid went hunting he should know shooting things causes death, shooting things in the head especially.

His motives and reasoning may be somewhat screwed up, but to say he didn't know what would happen when he shot someone is naive. The fact he chose a gun over a rusty spork supports that.

As i said before, it's a messed up case, so i'll be happy to wait for a psychiatric report before fully committing either way.

Eh, I refuse to believe that an 11 year old can be held to the same legal standards as an adult. "Age of Reason" used to mean something. I'm not a legal expert but my inner pretend-genius-spider-sense is tingling and it detects some real icky poo.

I'm pro-abortion, babies-on-spikes and all, but that doesn't mean putting wee young'ns in jail for the rest of their lives. I, too, will be awaiting the "check-up-from-the-neck-up" on this trigger happy juvenile dumbass.

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Reminds me of that Misfits song... "Violent World."