Kids With Gun and Choco Fun

FORT WORTH — Police investigators said two friends hanging out became involved in a confrontation in which one teen was stabbed about 20 times and another was fatally shot.

800 block of Buffalo Springs Drive in Fort Worth

Danny Allen, 13, and his 14-year-old friend were eating popcorn at the friend’s home in the 800 block of Buffalo Springs Drive on Wednesday when the two Hughes Middle School students became involved in an argument.

Police said the 14-year-old was stabbed during the altercation and grabbed a handgun, shooting Danny several times and killing him.

Source: Dallas Morning News

I read this news in the Dallas Morning News, and I am baffled. When I was 13 or 14 of age I did have a lot of confrontation with my buddies over a lot of things. It usually ended up in us not talking to each other for a few days or simply a few kicks in the rear end. And then it was back to buddies. I cannot imagine a scenario where may be my old friend Pranav pull a fast one on me or teased me about my long ‘baun’ nose and I suddenly pulled a 40 caliber handgun and popped a cap on him for making fun of me.

How does a 14 year old kid acquire a gun is out of my rational? And what mind-frame must he/she be in to be able to shoot another individual. What kind of parents grows these kids? School shootings are like a recurring phenomenon. I guess I grew up in a very different society then these kids. At the age of fourteen I had lot to fear, my parents, my teachers, etc. The craziest things I could dare do when I was fourteen was probably go light up a cigarette in the back allies that I took to school. Yes, we did fight after school with the kids across the neighborhood or the guys that gave us the ‘stare’ last week, but with fists and knuckles. May be a hockey bat or a iron rod to the ones that went a step further. And maybe a ‘khukuri’ (a traditional Nepali Knife) if the person really lost his or her mind. A gun is like an alien to any Nepal youth, at least when I was growing up.

Here in America, it’s easier to acquire a gun than it is to pass the fifth grade.