Earlier this week, a 6-year-old student from Michigan pulled a gun from his pants and shot a little girl to death in front of their classmates and first-grade teacher.


http://media.www.thelantern.com/media/storage/paper333/news/2000/03/03/Column/Many-To.Blame.For.Michigan.Shooting.Editorial-49632.shtml

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February 29, the day of the deadly shooting of one child by another at an elementary school outside Flint, Michigan

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2000/apr2000/welf-a28.shtml

hmmmm after reading the articl, i agree that someone needs to pay for this crime. The father couldn't have prevented it as he is already in jail so should not be held accountable for not raising the boy right. As for the mother, yes she should be held accountable for her action as should the uncle for leaving a gun where the child could get it. As for the boy, well at that age he should have known that his actions were wrong. Especially after he had been suspended for fighting and stabbing a girl with a pencil

What is this world coming to :(

"""""What is this world coming to""""

that is just it

it is the world

not place [a] or place

it happens everywhere

and it comes down to memememememe attitude

till that changes it will only get worse

more stuff on this

http://www.fortunecity.com/millennium/castleton/1123/christ/kayla.html

I feel for the victims. I feel bad for the shooter because someone wasn't doing anything to help him. some people don't get that owning a gun...you have to be responsible

although this makes my point that it's everywhere.

Yep!

oh...and gun control laws still wouldn't help. can't control stupidity. the gun should have been somewhere where the child couldn't get a hold of it and since the child has had problems before...he should have gotten help.

The child not getting help after he attacked another child seems to be the key element here. He could have killed another child by stabbing them in the eye with a pencil.

Dennis Fyffe is the assistant superintendent in this working-class town of 35,000 in Middlesex County. And, in fact, something silly did happen in Sayreville last month: four kindergartners were suspended from school for three days after a playground incident in which fingers were apparently turned into make-believe guns and threats were apparently exchanged.

http://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/16/nyregion/jersey-bang-you-re-suspended.html?scp=1&sq=6-year-old%20student%20%20shot%20a%20little%20girl%20feb%2029%202000&st=cse

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one extreme to the other

whats a school to do




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from a lil further down the article


It is easy to mock school administators who punish children for going ''Bam! Bam!'' on the playground. Still, you can sympathize with Mr. Fyffe. For anyone whose job is keeping children safe, the world changed after the shootings at Columbine High School, a year ago this past Thursday. And it changed again on Feb. 29, when a 6-year-old in Flint, Mich., killed a 6-year-old classmate with a gun.

2000 was a rough year - sympathies for the parents, family and friends of the deceased

i can agree with that but it was february

only had bush for 40 days

knew there was a reason you were posting an article from 2000

You have GOT to be f*cking joking. Kids aren't even allowed to play Cowboys And Indians anymore?? And since when did suspending KINDERGARTNERS start??

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