[teenyelliott]

He was not a "child," he was old enough to think rationally and be a dangerous killer

The kid who shot a bunch of people in my school was 14. Old enough to kill, old enough to be killed.

[pcottraux]

Exactly.

[benjibrowder]

I don't disagree with that. What makes this so controversial was whether he really did intend to kill anyone seeing as the gun was fake. Second, receiving a tip off that the gun may be fake, the fact that I was wearing a kevlar vest, I'd think about my shot before hand in case I did have to squeeze the trigger. I'd shoot him in the chest, rather than the head. If it had been a thirty year old man, I probably would have taken the shot in the head approach. But that's just me. Reading this article however draws lots of questions, mainly because of how it all went down seems a little fishy.