Police find weapons cache at teen's home

[critter crazy]

Why would the mother buy these things for her kid?? And we wonder what is wrong with the world these days!!

[jennielynn1970]

I can't believe they're down playing it about nothing being imminent just because they didn't find any ammunition in the house. He had the guns... many of them... I'm sure he could get ammunition if he wanted or needed it at any time.

I hope the parents are also charged in this. It is sick that a mother or father would buy weapons for their kids knowing full well that they have issues. I doubt he was going deer hunting in Philly.

[Catty1]

The parents are under investigation for sure!

Sometimes I think mandatory spay/neuter ought to be extended to certain humans....

[RICHARD]

Even tho you can do some damage with a pellet or BB gun, only one gun (which did not have ammo) was really a bang bang gun.

The stupid media made it sound like the kid had an armory in his room.

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The kid had more of a chance to do a RALPHIE to himself.....

"A BB gun? You'll put your eye out with that kid!"

[jennielynn1970]

I didn't think the media was stupid about it. It was a kid who had issues, had been picked on and bullied, and he was being homeschooled because he couldn't make it in a regular school setting. I saw the reports with the pics of the weapons... it was an armory in terms of numbers. One gun was more than enough to do damage with.

With all the school violence and Columbine style shootings lately, I'm glad there is a zero tolerance policy going on in most schools and areas.

I'm glad that they are charging his mother as well. Enabling your children to do harm, or knowing they have the intent to do harm and do nothing to stop it, is just sick.

[RICHARD]

The bulk of the 'guns' were air and pellet guns!

My problem is with the fact that the media makes it sound like he had nukes under his pillow!

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Yes, Charge him and the mother but don't make it sound like he had real guns in his room.
This little effer is sick and his thoughts were definitely moving towards mayhem....

I have been shot and shot myself with a pellet/bb gun...

There is no way that a kid could do a Columbine with a bunch of toys.

[Miss Z]

I didn't think the media was stupid about it. It was a kid who had issues, had been picked on and bullied, and he was being homeschooled because he couldn't make it in a regular school setting. I saw the reports with the pics of the weapons... it was an armory in terms of numbers. One gun was more than enough to do damage with.

Agreed.

'Serious' weapons or not, weapons are weapons. They are designed to do damage. Perhaps he was deluded about causing another Columbine, but I bet he could have had a real good go.

His intentions were in place to harm people regardless of what he was going to use to do so. That's scary enough for me.

I applaud the media for once on this story, for shaming a disturbed individual and his what-were-they-thinking-buying-him-a-gun parents, and for displaying the message of 'you will be caught and punished' to those who have thought about trying the same thing.

[RICHARD]

Agreed.

'Serious' weapons or not, weapons are weapons. They are designed to do damage.

Having shot a bunch of weapons I disagree..

My only peeve is that the media made it sound like the kid had an arsenal that would defeat an army.

A 30 pellet or BB guns isn't an arsenal.
A pellet or BB gun that looks like a modern firearm is trouble.
There are replica 'guns' that will get you killed if you present them to a law officer-too bad, you idiot!

This kid is a product of bad parenting, bad choices and stupidity.

I am glad that they busted him and his mom, But have a problem with the media presenting his gun stash as fricking WW III.

That's like saying they kid had a nuke, when in fact it was a radium wrist watch.