I was ranting about how bad the kids are around my neighborhood a while back and we are forever reading about home invasions around the area which is pretty scary for anyone. You expect to hear all this stuff around big cities, but not small towns. It doesn’t seem to matter anymore where you live people are people and sooner or later something will touch your world and make you wonder what in the world is wrong with people in general not just our youth.

I wonder how many people actually check sexualoffenders.com to see if any perverts live near them. You might be surprised to actually see people you know listed there, I know I was. If you have children you owe it to them to make sure you know who is living down the street from them. No one knows when someone might snap, but we don’t have to make it easy for our children by buying them guns. I believe in the right to own a gun or shotgun for protection and hunting, but there needs to be an age limit.

Guns in the home should also be locked away because there have been way too many accidental shootings, we hear about them all the time and it’s really hard to understand how we can still let these things happen. Which brings me to the 11 year old PA boy that took his 20 gauge shotgun and shot his Father’s fiancee in the back of the head while she slept and killed her and her unborn child and then went to school where he was picked up.

This boy will be tried as an adult in PA. I’m sure everyone has heard of this case by now since it happened Feb. 21st, but it’s so hard to understand that a child could actually do something this horrendous and not be a total mental case. This was a small community and everyone knows everyone, how in the world can something like this happen? We are always shocked when things like this happen because we think we are at least safe in our homes.

Of course this child could have easily stabbed her or used a baseball bat, it’s the person not the weapon, but we don’t have to make it so easy. Scary world we live in.