GA:"We is teenagers, don't shoot me"

Gun Watch ^ | 20 November, 2014 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

Has the use of the word "teenager" by the old media given criminal teens a sense of immunity?   You see it again and again. Trayvon Martin is constantly referred to as a teenager, as though that somehow absolved him of his crimes.

Most male children, who are brought up in intact families, do not become predatory creatures in their teens.   But for those who do not have strong, moral, male role models in their lives, especially if this is the default position in their community, predation is a common role.

In a home invasion in Georgia, the homeowner grabbed his gun as his door was broken down.  As he confronted the three invaders, they yelled at him.  From wrdw.com:

"The first thing he hollered, we is teenagers, don't shoot me," Green said.

Green said he didn't care what age they were, they were breaking into his home.

"If you are old enough to do a crime, age doesn't matter. Doesn't matter whether you're a teenager, you're grown. If you can do the crime, your punishment, it shouldn't matter. I had my gun in my hand and I just started firing at them," Green said.

A six foot plus 17 year old can be just as dangerous as an older criminal, maybe more.   As I read media reports, it seems that being 17 should give some special sort of invulnerability to bullets and jail.   The juvenile justice system may give some invulnerability to jail, for a time.   But words do not stop bullets.

The "progressive" position seems to be that "children" are inherently good.  That is not true.  Children are inherently selfish and amoral.  In Christianity, this is recognized as original sin.  Each child is a wild animal that must be civilized and taught moral virtues.  This is much harder to do in a single parent home.    If teenagers are told that they are expected to steal, as many media reports seem to imply; and that it is excused because they are "teenagers", we should not be surprised when large percentages of them become actual criminals.

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[elcid1970]

Whatever happened to the term “feral youths”?

Oh - that’s wacist!

[Smellin Salt]

is we thugs?

[Brother Cracker]

[Gaffer]

Green said he didn't care what age they were, they were breaking into his home.

His mistake was in answering/acknowledging. In your house after breaking in is an automatic death sentence in my book. Shoot and then ask questions of the bodies if you want. Black, white, yellow, red, brown ---- I don't care.

[greatvikingone]

“did they all have factory jobs and their own apartments?”

Jobs, yes. Living on your own has never been a measure of adulthood; living away from the parental home came with marriage.

[windsorknot]

What’s to fear from morons that don’t even know how to put their pants on?

[Gaffer]

Google Neal Bootz and “Boo got shot.”

[Gaffer]

Boortz

[baddog 219]

We is to stupid to po up ours pants....

[Gaffer]

As I remember in 1968, we could still get 3.2 beer on post, though.

[Gaffer]

Yes, they be.

[Gaffer]

Ill prepared imbecile. You can’t run wit da widescreen like dat!

[dfwgator]

[RipSawyer]

“13 were adults?

did they all have factory jobs and their own apartments?”
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No, but many left school after 8th grade and went to work. My mother used to talk about her oldest brother, my uncle Roy, who was born in 1899 and when he was either 13 or 14, I’m not sure which, saved my grandfather’s life by using a pitchfork to drive an angry bull away before he could kill my grandfather. He then proceeded to raise a crop with mules while my grandfather spent the summer mostly in bed, recovering from being trampled by the bull. It was something similar to this song,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvfsfS6NVUc.

My own father finished 8th grade and went to work on his father’s farm and learned carpentry in his father’s residential construction business. As for myself I finished high school but I worked in the fields as soon as I was big enough to do anything at all which was around age 6 or so. By 13 I was expected to come home from school and go to work without having to have things pointed out to me. We had school bus drivers who were sixteen year old students and they did a fine job. I joined the Navy BEFORE finishing high school, the recruiter told me that if my father would sign the papers along with me before I turned 18 I could do 3 years active duty rather than 4. My birthday came just before graduation so they swore me in and sent me home on 2 weeks leave so I could graduate.

Yes, there definitely was a time when people were considered either children or young adults, there was none of this “adolescence” stuff going on and certainly none of the current shameless pandering to children that goes on now. You did not see people in their twenties, thirties and even forties expecting their parents to make life easy for them, you were expected to start earning your keep as soon as you could lift ten pounds unassisted. I am not exaggerating, I started carrying in firewood as soon as I could lift one stick at a time and carry it and anytime I complained my parents started telling me how I had it so much easier than they had had it and I know now that they were telling the truth, I did have it easier than they had.

[hal ogen]

On the plus side, the feral degenerates with their pants “down” can’t run or maneuver very well. Easy targets for you.

[backwoods-engineer]

So, let me get this straight: ‘homeboy’ busts into my house in the middle of the night with his “crew”, threatens my family, wants to take my stuff, and I am denied my right to self-defense because he “is a teenager”?! Nuts to that! You do the crime, you pay the price, boy or not.

[Chewbarkah]

For perverse reasons, most states hide the criminal careers of “teens” (up to 18 years old) not only while the perps are less than 18, but seal their records after passing 18. When pranks and petty foolishness were the extent of the offenses, maybe this serves some purpose, in not ruining a kid for life. But this now extends to serious crimes, to the extent that offending while a teen is advantageous, and gangs have kids do their dirty work. Punishment for youth offenders also tends to be light to non-existent.

Denying the public and even juries an accurate picture of who a criminal is and has been works against the public interest, and should be stopped by legislation.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Teenagers are old enough to know right from wrong. If you don’t know that kicking in someone’s door and invading their home is a crime you may not live to be 21.

[bgill]

I used to work with juvies. Horrid creatures. Especially the girls.

[TexasFreeper2009]

most of America’s fighting men in wars past have been teenagers. Those people in the Olympics.. usually teenagers.

Where did this idea come from that teenagers are helpless? heck they are the strongest and most dangerous of all !