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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote] The cops brought home a group of kids who were…..walking around? Does your area have a teen curfew? What law were they breaking?
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This.

Is there anything actually illegal happening here?

I'm not going to argue that this was a "nice" or "neighborly" thing to do, but it seems pretty harmless.[/quote]

They weren’t charged with doing anything illegal.  [/quote]

Emden of its not illegal its stupid. Like the police said people have guns and will use them.  Right canderas are everywhere. It's not like the old days where you can set off cherry bombs at the park. [/quote]

It’s not stupid.  It’s nasty.  [b]They’re waking up kids, the elderly, people who are trying to get some decent sleep for an early morning at work.  Where is the empathy?[/b] [/quote]

I think this is the angle that you should take when talking with your kid about it.  No, don't ground them for a month, but do give some sort of punishment.  If they will tell you which houses, perhaps you should go over there with them to apologize and offer to do some yard work for the homeowner.  If they can't (or don't want to) remember which houses, then take away phones and screens for a couple of days and have them do chores at your house.  Remind them that they need to be very, very careful and think of scared people with guns in their homes.  Tell them that you never ever again want the cops to come to your door to discuss your son.[/quote]

With your lax discipline your kids will been doing it again next week and you’ll be planning a funeral for the one that got shot. Discipline them more harshly the first time especially when young so they think twice before they act next time. A few days without a phone might be worth it to try again, but grounded for a month I’d think twice if I were a kid. They’re not making prank calls they’re knocking on doors of people with guns, think about that next time before you assign 2 days discipline.[/quote]

This how gun nuts have ruined our society. It's sad to tell kids that neighbors could shoot them.[/quote]

They aren’t kids, they’re 13 year old teenagers that should know better. Where I’m from you never roll up on someone’s house you don’t know after dark or you might get shot. Been that way even before I was born, seems like common sense.[/quote]
That’s not common sense. You’re so warped by gun culture that you think that’s normal?![/quote]

NP.  I'm pretty liberal in a fairly liberal family which had a lot of guns, did a lot of hunting in a homogenous, conservative area where we were all pretty much free range kids.  I don't have any guns in my home now but that's because I don't hunt anymore and don't feel the need for 'protection'.  I'm appalled by the lack of research on gun safety and the rampant gun violence.

Having said all that, as a PP said, no good can come of a pack of teenaged boys roaming around after 10PM.  Even if the boys aren't large, a homeowner has no idea why a pack of people would be running from their house after ringing the doorbell SO LATE AT NIGHT.  If it were the day, it'd be annoying.  After dark, it could be something completely different. It's out of bounds.  While shooting those kids would be an overreaction, you never know what some people will do, especially when they feel threatened by a group of people resembling adults.

And, if I knew you were letting my kid roam around after 10PM, my kid wouldn't be spending the night at your house any more. [/quote]

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