Police: Autistic teen With AK-47 Opened Fire

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enough of the gun control arguments. the only people responsible for this tragedy is the autistic teen and, to a much lesser extent, the father. That is all.

What was the kid's reason?

Hallelujah! The autistic teen is RESPONSIBLE!

He's done a bad thing and now he faces the consequences of his actions.

We are all responsible for our own actions, so he is responsible for his.

Now, what was his reason? Was this action out of violence? Did he plan it? Did he not know what he was doing by pointing and squeezing the trigger? Or did the rifle drag him around firing on its own?

Whatever his motive was, it won't vindicate him.

I don’t really care what his rationale was for trying to light up a basketball court with an AK, let him be judged and pay up for it.

His father, minister or not, has every right to own an AK-47 or whatever else. In this case with his son being unstable, though, I think it would have been prudent to have the weapons in a locked metal cabinet or cable-locked. It’s really a judgment call in that you’d have to know the kid’s mental condition in order to determine the necessity and level of securing the weapons. If you need it in an emergency (and it happens) you don’t want it to be too inaccessible.

The arguments about the necessity of personal firearm ownership is one that’s been kicked around here before. As a human being, in any country, we all have the right to protect ourselves. There have always been and always will be bad people out there whom we need to protect ourselves from. Don’t hold your breath waiting for that to change because it obviously never will.
Believing that all would be well and the sun would shine upon us every day if we could just do away with guns is not only naïve but a very dangerous mindset.

Don’t wait for the police to protect you either because it’s not their function to protect individuals no matter what they tell you. Not only is it not their function to protect you but they aren’t logistically capable of providing it. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure that out.

When someone is breaking into your house you need protection THEN. When a gang of thugs in the hood decide they don’t like your looks at a red light and decide to drag you out of your car and break every bone in your body you need protection THEN. When during the aftermath of a disaster (hurricane, earthquake, etc.) and you have bands of roving undesirables out and about looking for trouble and little to no police presence you need protection THEN.
This isn’t a paranoia thing about living in fear of these things happening or about waiting for any excuse to “whack” someone, either.

Using deadly force to defend yourself from intentional bodily harm or death does not make you as bad as the person trying to harm you. They came to you looking for trouble and are getting what they bargained for whether they think they bargained for it or not.
Carrying a firearm and/or having one ready at home does not mean you are looking for trouble it means you are prepared for it. Does wearing seatbelts or having airbags in your car mean you want to have an auto accident?

Forget the tiresome old arguments about all the people being “killed by guns” every year.
Look at how many in that same time span that die in car and other vehicle accidents, occupational accidents, electrocution, burning, poison, injury from animals, drowning, falls, malnutrition, assault by means other than firearms, medical malpractice, natural disasters, illnesses and diseases, etc.
Work on at least some of those and make a real impact on fatalities.

It is the place of no government to deny us this basic human function of self preservation or to restrict which tools we use to carry it out with.

I don’t know why this is so hard for some of us here to understand. I would think that being on the spectrum would give us all a better sense of logic in such simple things as this but I guess not.

Dox47 wrote;

One of the reasons why I don't like guns. If the kid were any younger, like under 10, the father would have been charged instead.

Peaceful people need 24/7 access to deadly weapons so that they may become deady people in the blink of an eye?

And the useless police force incapable of doing their jobs?

This is exactly why guns do not come out of vending machines in high school corridors, $1.50 each with 3 seconds of wait-time.

If only the most unstable people owned guns, they would in time become the police. Over the course of a few generations, there'd be a well-armed militia made of frothing psychopaths trumpeting their God-given right to guns. Riddling with bullets anyone who opposes them. Enter Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.