School Shooting They Didn't Cover

[Corwin]

I don't know, when I was in 8th grade I understand the consequences of an action like that, that would be why I didn't go kill someone, and if I had, I wouldn't have been suprised in the least to be tried as an adult, and I"m sure the parents of the injured or dead children feel that he should be tried as an adult too, the only ppl directly involved that don't think that way are the kids parent's b/c they don't want to believe that they failed to make their child understand the realities of a situation like this by the time he got that old, but when you get down to it, one of the major problems facing this country is trying to decide where that line should be, at what age is it ok to try them as an adult in the case of certain criminal acts, should the line be age based, or should it be based on mental faculties, there's a chance a mentally disabled person of 25 would not understand his actions but that a 10yr old genius who is in his freshman year of high school would, so how do you decide which one you should charge which way, if we go by an age standard alone we are asking for trouble in the future, but if we go through psychological analysis then we're going to have scammers, and expert witnesses paid off to swing their vote or trying to push their own views, rather than having these things become less of an issue as we supposedly become more advanced, more civilized, we've actually come up w/ more and harder problems to deal w/