The boy exchanged the handgun for $300 in February. The incident was discovered after ammunition was found in the backpack of the other student Wednesday.

Two 10-year-old students were arrested in connection with a gun sold at their elementary school in Florida, county officials confirmed.

A deputy’s son “agreed to exchange a handgun, (later found to belong to his deceased father), for a sum of $300” back in February, the Hendry County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.

The Country Oaks Elementary School was placed under lockdown Wednesday morning after the sheriff’s office received a call about “a suspicious incident” on campus. Authorities discovered ammunition in the backpack of the boy who purchased the gun.

The gun was later found in his backyard under a shed, hidden with a 74-gram bag of marijuana, according to investigators.

  • MagicShel@programming.dev
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    8 months ago

    Mostly because they have brains.

    I’m fucking jealous. Don’t get me wrong, my kids are bright, but my ten year old got expelled for taking a steak knife to school - something I’d never in a million years have suspected she’d do. But one of her friends thought it would be funny, and you know how you or I might joke about telling our boss to go fuck himself, but we’d never actually do it? My daughter knew better, but in that moment all she thought about was clowning around.

    She is already the most independent, hardest working kid I’ve known. I raised her to be that way and I’m damn proud of her. Some day she’s going to be a force to be reckoned with. It’s just like most children she’s a fucking idiot sometimes. It’s not her fault. I was a fucking idiot when I was a kid too. And based on stories I’ve heard, so was my dad. And then you look at the science and it turns out nearly every kid is a fucking idiot because a child’s brain isn’t an adult brain. And for some reason us parents tend to be the last to know.

    You and I feel similarly about what sane gun laws should be and I don’t really look to argue about that, but damn as one parent to another every time I hear someone say their child would never do some stupid thing or another because they are smart or raised right, I just think to myself that person either hit the jackpot or they are naive about how kids’ brains work. I’ve raised five kids. Every damn one of them has done at least one idiotic thing I never in a million years believed they would do.

    So don’t ever rely solely on your kids’ intelligence or adherence to rules to keep them safe. You don’t ever want their moment of idiocy to involve a firearm. Best of fortunes my friend - to you and your kids.

    • prole@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      8 months ago

      but damn as one parent to another every time I hear someone say their child would never do some stupid thing or another because they are smart or raised right, I just think to myself that person either hit the jackpot or they are naive about how kids’ brains work.

      It is simply an extension of their narcissism. They see their child as an extension of themselves (at least for now, the child will inevitably leave them when they see how toxic they are), and in their mind it isn’t possible for them to do wrong.