Earlier this year in Newport News, Virginia, (yes, that's the actual name of the city) a 6-year old shot his teacher on purpose.
After the fact, he proudly announced:
"I shot that [flowerbed] dead!"
Contrary to what the boy thought, the teacher sustained wounds in her hand and chest but survived.
However, the left was very unhappy attributing intention to the 6-year old. Newport News Police Chief Steve Drew said,
"That is ludicrous. It is absurd. It is utterly inconsistent with science and what we know about human development and child development," she says. "Let's own that. This was not a criminal act."
And so Prosecuting Attorney Arthur Busch said he wasn't going to charge the six-year old.
He said,
"It was like fingernails on a chalkboard when I heard the police say it was intentional," he said. "We don't call it intentional when it's a 6-year-old. ... He's not old enough to have intent."
Fair enough.
Kids are not old enough to give consent either, but that's an issue for another article.
So, instead of punishing the kid; the prosecution instead focused their efforts on whoever gave him access to the gun because what the case really needed to be is a gun-control case.
The gun belonged to one Deja Taylor, the boy's single mother.
Taylor was just convicted and sentenced to 21 months in prison on charges related to the gun, but not because of the shooting of the teacher, mind you.
You see, the charge of "reckless storage of a firearm leading to child endangerment" is just a misdemeanor and didn't make enough of a statement about the evils of gun ownership, so those were dropped. The case had become a poster-child for gun control, so charges needed to have bigger consequences than a misdemeanor.
So what did they manage to get Miss Taylor with?
It turns out that the boy's mother used marijuana, and using drugs while being in possession of a firearm is in fact a federal felony offense with a prison sentence of up to 10 years.
And seeing as how Miss Taylor is not the son of a sitting president, who happens to have been indicted for the exact same federal felony, Taylor's trial was quick and painful without any plea deals of any sort.
The sad part about the whole story is that while seeking to shield the six-year-old from the consequences of his actions, the left has taken away his only parent and almost certainly set him on a path that perpetuates criminal behavior.
But, dang, they couldn't let the mom get away with letting her kid get ahold of her gun, could they?
It seems to me that there's a bigger problem than this one tragic case when we have a culture that's so careless with life.
The same culture that thinks this is an appropriate birthday party for kids:
Lord, have mercy on us!
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