"In this city a 13 year old murdered a man in a car-jacking over a truck and we've seen several people injured in a struggle over their car. Car thieves are not minor or petty criminals, these kids were driving wrecklessly because they didn't care who they killed ---- they figured they had a right to keep the car they had stolen and didn't care who died trying to stop them." Geez, talk about generalizing and lumping all teens together because of some other incidents. Some of the kids in this car were only 13 years old, weren't driving, and if pulled over probably could not even have been charged with a crime. Judging by the responses I am getting I can see that a certain cold-heartedness and fierceness prevails today that never used to be. I thank God I am not one of them, but this has all been prophesied:
"But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of stress. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, wicked, inhuman, without affection, without peace, slanderers, profligates, fierce, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of goodliness but denying the power of it. Avoid such people." (2 Timothy 3: 1-5)
It sounds like a gang --- 13 year olds running with a gang of older criminals. It might be too bad for the 13 year olds who just went along for the ride but car theft is a serious crime. You can't just shrug your shoulders and figure because someone is only 16 or 17, they can just steal cars to drive around as they please. These kids most likely had plenty of encounters with the law before -- stealing cars isn't a petty juvenile prank. If the car owner had tried to prevent them from stealing his car it's likely they figured they had the right to injure or kill him for it.
Geez, talk about generalizing and lumping all teens together because of some other incidents. Some of the kids in this car were only 13 years old, weren't driving, and if pulled over probably could not even have been charged with a crime. Judging by the responses I am getting I can see that a certain cold-heartedness and fierceness prevails today that never used to be. I thank God I am not one of them, but this has all been prophesied: I doubt if even one of the youths who tragically died wasn't aware of the type of troublemakers with which they were 'hanging out'. No, they probably didn't deserve death (unless it was my car), but they chose the path that they chose. I fully expect the police to do their job, unencumbered by any silly restrictions on their ability to chase down criminals. For without the fear of being caught, there'd be a lot more criminals.