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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would like to see some kind of middle status for kids like Colt Gray that doesn't involve juvenile vs adult court. Given the fact that this kid was obviously troubled (and how did missing 9 days of school not go unnoticed? I'd get a phone call anytime my kid was in school if I had not had time or forgot to call them when he had appts or was ill) it makes sense for the criminal justice system (with IMO court oversight) to have custody of him for a long time for rehab purposes, but life sentence, with or without parole (they said without, I thought that option has to be left open now) is to my mind just wrong. At least for kids under 16 although I would go higher (with longer custody for older minors). [/quote]

I could see your argument if this was involuntary manslaughter.  Accidents that kill people.  Mistakes that kill people.

I do not agree that teens or adults who kill people intentionally should be given any leeway.  This child was gifted a military style weapon.  He planned to go to school and shoot people who did nothing wrong and that he didn't even know.  He went in with the intention to spray his weapon into rooms with innocents and kill anyone he could.  I'm sorry, but even if the system failed him, that is inexcusable.  If you want to make others his accomplices, that's fine.  But there is no way to say that a person who thinks like this is not a danger to society and should not be out in society. Period.  I can understand if you want him incarcerated in a youth/juvenile facility until he turns 18, then convert his sentence to an adult facility.

But I do not think that there is any reason to allow someone who thinks/thought like this out in society.  I also believe that the parents and anyone else who abetted this crime, should also be punished.  His father should be treated like the Crumbleys.[/quote]

I assume then that you don't agree that the death penalty should not be imposed on children. Like George Stinney (age 14, executed in the electric chair in 1944--he did not get due process, but if he had, that would be fine?)[/quote]

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