Mother Buys Guns & Ammo for 14-Year-Old
Apparently, the inmates are running the asylum here in these United States.
So, on the same day as the Cleveland, OH school shootings, a mother in Pennsylvania gets pinched for, of all things, buying her bullied 14-year-old a cache of weapons: a .22-caliber handgun, a .22-caliber rifle and a 9 mm semiautomatic rifle -- with a laser scope. He also had a bunch of clips and ammunition for those firearms, about 30 air-powered guns, swords, knives, and a bomb-making book.
The kicker: junior also had videos of the Columbine killings, and had talked about planning a "Columbine-like attack" at his old school.
So, it appears Michele Cossey, 46, bought the rifle, you know, the semi-automatic with the 'scope, at a gun show on Sept. 23 and provided police with a receipt, investigators said in court papers. I guess she never noticed that her son was training to be freakin' John Rambo out back of the house.
And dear old dad -- himself convicted of vehicular manslaughter after drunk-driving in Oklahoma -- tried to buy young Dillon a rifle, and was subsequently rearrested for the trouble. Frank Cossey was sentenced to house arrest for lying about his criminal record when he went to buy a .22-caliber rifle for his son in December 2005.
So these two were, like, the poster-children for dysfunctional parents.
I can't even really be mad at the boy, because, well, he's a child and his whole life is the result of the decisions the supposed grown-ups make for him until he reaches the age of majority.
If not prevented by law enforcement, in a few weeks we'd have been outraged -- again -- by a student taking the lives of other youths.
This incident solidifies my thought that we need a parental licensing scheme here in the United States. Go to class, learn some skills, get some direction, pass a test or something, then get a license to be a parent. No license, no kids.
Draconian? Maybe. Crazy. No.
I am not so far off, as doing a Google search on the subject results in thousands of links, many to sites with supporters of such prior restraint.
On a related point, in many Scandinavian countries, even parents choosing names for their kids get serious government scrutiny. In Denmark, for example, choosing a first and last name for a child is a serious, multi-tiered affair, governed by national law and subject to the approval of at least two government agencies.
The rationale behind the Law on Personal Names is to protect the innocents -- children who are undeservedly burdened by preposterous or silly names. It's the state's view that children should not suffer ridicule and abuse because of their parents' lapses in judgment or their misguided attempts to be hip.
Back to my point: one has to have a license to do all sorts of dangerous, or potentially dangerous things, like drive, buy and use guns, and in most states, to cut hair, and do makeup professionally. But two people -- no matter how dense -- can just get pregnant and bring a child into the world, not raise them with any sort of moral compass, and then turn the resultant little devils on the world without any repercussions.
Isn't having a child at least as important as any of those listed activities?
I think so.
So, while we're regulating lesser activities, we should be trying to protect society from being undeservedly burdened with the results of abject idiots reproducing.
So, on the same day as the Cleveland, OH school shootings, a mother in Pennsylvania gets pinched for, of all things, buying her bullied 14-year-old a cache of weapons: a .22-caliber handgun, a .22-caliber rifle and a 9 mm semiautomatic rifle -- with a laser scope. He also had a bunch of clips and ammunition for those firearms, about 30 air-powered guns, swords, knives, and a bomb-making book.
The kicker: junior also had videos of the Columbine killings, and had talked about planning a "Columbine-like attack" at his old school.
So, it appears Michele Cossey, 46, bought the rifle, you know, the semi-automatic with the 'scope, at a gun show on Sept. 23 and provided police with a receipt, investigators said in court papers. I guess she never noticed that her son was training to be freakin' John Rambo out back of the house.
And dear old dad -- himself convicted of vehicular manslaughter after drunk-driving in Oklahoma -- tried to buy young Dillon a rifle, and was subsequently rearrested for the trouble. Frank Cossey was sentenced to house arrest for lying about his criminal record when he went to buy a .22-caliber rifle for his son in December 2005.
So these two were, like, the poster-children for dysfunctional parents.
I can't even really be mad at the boy, because, well, he's a child and his whole life is the result of the decisions the supposed grown-ups make for him until he reaches the age of majority.
If not prevented by law enforcement, in a few weeks we'd have been outraged -- again -- by a student taking the lives of other youths.
This incident solidifies my thought that we need a parental licensing scheme here in the United States. Go to class, learn some skills, get some direction, pass a test or something, then get a license to be a parent. No license, no kids.
Draconian? Maybe. Crazy. No.
I am not so far off, as doing a Google search on the subject results in thousands of links, many to sites with supporters of such prior restraint.
On a related point, in many Scandinavian countries, even parents choosing names for their kids get serious government scrutiny. In Denmark, for example, choosing a first and last name for a child is a serious, multi-tiered affair, governed by national law and subject to the approval of at least two government agencies.
The rationale behind the Law on Personal Names is to protect the innocents -- children who are undeservedly burdened by preposterous or silly names. It's the state's view that children should not suffer ridicule and abuse because of their parents' lapses in judgment or their misguided attempts to be hip.
Back to my point: one has to have a license to do all sorts of dangerous, or potentially dangerous things, like drive, buy and use guns, and in most states, to cut hair, and do makeup professionally. But two people -- no matter how dense -- can just get pregnant and bring a child into the world, not raise them with any sort of moral compass, and then turn the resultant little devils on the world without any repercussions.
Isn't having a child at least as important as any of those listed activities?
I think so.
So, while we're regulating lesser activities, we should be trying to protect society from being undeservedly burdened with the results of abject idiots reproducing.
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Okay, Tony, I missed this one. WTF???
Ultimately, I believe he's saying "you need a license to have a kid!" LOL
(and if I'm right, I couldn't agree more!)
Oh, I understood fully what the ultimate point was. I, in fact, was dumbfounded (how that could be possible after being de-sensitized by everything I see and hear on a daily basis...nothing should remotely shock me) by the story of the mother in Pennsylvania and her little Terminator. Talk about dysfunctional....that's putting it mildly! Whatever happened to a good fist fight between kids? I don't even think kids know how to throw down anymore!! DAMN.