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Releasing kids who have shown the wherewithal to find their ways to guns does seem like the strangest thing in the world. It says to me they have no place to hold them and obviously no one wants to foster them (nor would that be safer). We do need to start building juvenile facilities with proper wrap around services and accountability again.

Or charge them as adults and send them to prison.
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Or, we create juvenile detention facilities that are seriously committed to repatterning behavior---not just holding pens where the kids can while away their days playing Grand Theft Auto and learning further criminal behavior from other miscreants.  Serious repatterning involves seriously relentless structure plus nurture.  Tiered systems of privileges tied to achieving educational and behavioral milestones.  Therapy and therapeutic interventions to try to deal with kids who have prenatal exposure brain damage and/or trauma that impairs their ability to regulate emotions and appreciate cause and effect consequences.  Educational milestones that can lead to skilled trade work and the ability to earn an immediate living wage.  And for all of them---appropriate societal reparative work in the form of community service---cleaning graffiti, picking up trash.  But in no event should violent teens just be part of a Catch & Release that sends them back to the homes and environments that produced the behavior.  And for those teens who won't avail themselves of the structure/nurture options offered in juvenile detention, then adult prison may be the end result.[/quote]

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