gee, what is this world coming to.

[ermitonto]

It all depends on the circumstances none of you know what the kid who did the stabbing had gone through. Yes it was still wrong but condeming him to a life of emprisonment for one mistake isnt fair.

I don't see why not. This is murder we're talking about. I don't care how crappy your childhood was, when you intentionally kill another human being (except in self-defense of course) you should be out of the society game for good. When you plunge a knife into somebody's chest because you want an iPod, that's not just a little mistake like shoplifting or tax fraud, it's a heinous anti-social act that deserves a punishment at least as bad as what the victim and his family had to go through.

P.S. Nullific: Regarding your signature, I always interpreted the line as "Americanize, Americanize, view the world from American eyes".

[BalliN]

This type of thing is nothing new. Youth are in fact getting less and less violent (despite what CNN says) statistically as generations go by. Its not what the world is coming to, its where the world is going from.

And I wouldn't kill them, that would be too good a fate. Let them become someobody's bitch, I'm sure that stupid fucking Ipod will come in handy when then.

youth are less violent? ha come to dayton man...this shit can happen in any poverty stricken neighborhood...and it does...this case the kid died and its on the news

[Xx420.JUGGALO.420xX]

kids at my school get killed over gang shit. a couple people die every year by gun fire because people think they r differant people. shit like that happens. last year they caught a kid with a pipe bomb at my school. its all just shit u gotta live with sumtimes.

[Breukelen advocaat]

youth are less violent? ha come to dayton man...this shit can happen in any poverty stricken neighborhood...and it does...this case the kid died and its on the news

I understand what you're saying, but please do not assume that the Brooklyn neighborhood called Farragut is "poverty sticken". It's not Sutten Place (NYC), but it's not the South Bronx, either.
Well, the crime in NYC (and elsewhere) has gone down considerably, for the most part, in the past fifteen years. This was partially due to the effect of Roe vs. Wade: less unwantedness means less crime. Many people will argue against this, but there has been no better explanation for the sudden drop in crime across the nation since the early 90's, some 20 years after the legalization of abortion.

[ermitonto]

Well, I think the sociological factors that contribute to crime rate are a lot more complex than whether abortion is legal or not. Social and economic factors are known to be very significant causes; the single most reliable predictor of whether a child will commit violent crime is whether his father is unemployed or not, and child-rearing techniques seem to be a big influence too.

[Breukelen advocaat]

Well, I think the sociological factors that contribute to crime rate are a lot more complex than whether abortion is legal or not. Social and economic factors are known to be very significant causes; the single most reliable predictor of whether a child will commit violent crime is whether his father is unemployed or not, and child-rearing techniques seem to be a big influence too.

Yes, this is true, but you may be missing the point: If the little shit was never born in the first place there would not have been a senseless killing for an iPod.

[Checkminus]

Yeah thats sad, but I ask you people, are you really that surprised?

[supersonicchronic]

I'm just gonna move to a small town in Oregon or someplace whree there is virtually no crime. I don't like associating with those types of fucks, and if I don't have to why do it? I think everyone should take a couple hits of acid, I think it makes you more peaceful

[slipknotpsycho]

to the person that said it was a mistake, think about it honestly. why should this [kid] be let back out into society when he took someone else out of it? just give me one good point on why he deserves the right to continue to enjoy his life when he took that ability away from an apparently good-hearted person. this type of thing really goes to heart to me because my brother before even age 18 has been murdered for unknown reason, and it wasn't a pretty death either. apparently he lived long enough while having his guts flung all over the place for the cops to ask him what happened. after the idiots ran to go hide the gun they used to do it with (btw it was a shotgun at close range in the stomach) if i could ever get my hands on that guy i dont' know what i would do. i purposely look away everytime anyone tries to point out anyone related to him becasue i don't want to know, i don't want to know how to track him down and should i ever do it, i am fully ready to accept what comes to me life in prison or cheese grater to the nuts.

[haha]

to the person that said it was a mistake, think about it honestly. why should this [kid] be let back out into society when he took someone else out of it? just give me one good point on why he deserves the right to continue to enjoy his life when he took that ability away from an apparently good-hearted person. this type of thing really goes to heart to me because my brother before even age 18 has been murdered for unknown reason, and it wasn't a pretty death either. apparently he lived long enough while having his guts flung all over the place for the cops to ask him what happened. after the idiots ran to go hide the gun they used to do it with (btw it was a shotgun at close range in the stomach) if i could ever get my hands on that guy i dont' know what i would do. i purposely look away everytime anyone tries to point out anyone related to him becasue i don't want to know, i don't want to know how to track him down and should i ever do it, i am fully ready to accept what comes to me life in prison or cheese grater to the nuts.

If you know who it is, why don't you go to the cops and tell them?