17 is not a child. 17 year olds can get legally married and have kids. 17 year olds can hold full time jobs. 17 year olds can be tried as adults for crimes.
And yeah, I’m sure as fuck going to blame him here. He’s not a victim! His loved ones are the victims. I’ve been 17 before. I remember my level of stupidity and the level of those around me. We were dumb as fuck. You know what we didn’t do? Point guns at our heads. I didn’t grow up with guns and had only shot a gun one time by the time I was 17, and I knew to never point a gun at my head.
The only time I’ve seen someone point a gun at their head in person was a 19 year old dude in college who was looking down the barrel of his friend’s gun checking to see if it was loaded. We immediately yelled at him to stop and then lectured him about how dumb it was. He refused to believe he was in any danger even after multiple people lectured him. We tried to give him gun training after the fact, but he didn’t believe us.
It’s not his age. It’s not that he didn’t get safe gun training. He’s just a dumbass.
I was going to talk about how this could have been avoided with some popular reforms but you convinced me this little shit had it coming. In fact, we should speed up the process by hiring people with guns and send them into areas where people like these are likely to be. We can give these hired guns a license to kill anyone who makes them “afraid of their safety” and we’ll give them a uniform so you know you should respect their authority.
Biologically, a seventeen year old is still an adolescent who lacks fully formed frontal lobes. Frontal lobes are responsible, amongst other things, for impulse control, judgment, and problem solving. Just adding a little context. Even if society claims they’re an adult, functionally they’re not.
17 is not a child. 17 year olds can get legally married and have kids. 17 year olds can hold full time jobs. 17 year olds can be tried as adults for crimes.
And yeah, I’m sure as fuck going to blame him here. He’s not a victim! His loved ones are the victims. I’ve been 17 before. I remember my level of stupidity and the level of those around me. We were dumb as fuck. You know what we didn’t do? Point guns at our heads. I didn’t grow up with guns and had only shot a gun one time by the time I was 17, and I knew to never point a gun at my head.
The only time I’ve seen someone point a gun at their head in person was a 19 year old dude in college who was looking down the barrel of his friend’s gun checking to see if it was loaded. We immediately yelled at him to stop and then lectured him about how dumb it was. He refused to believe he was in any danger even after multiple people lectured him. We tried to give him gun training after the fact, but he didn’t believe us.
It’s not his age. It’s not that he didn’t get safe gun training. He’s just a dumbass.
I was going to talk about how this could have been avoided with some popular reforms but you convinced me this little shit had it coming. In fact, we should speed up the process by hiring people with guns and send them into areas where people like these are likely to be. We can give these hired guns a license to kill anyone who makes them “afraid of their safety” and we’ll give them a uniform so you know you should respect their authority.
Biologically, a seventeen year old is still an adolescent who lacks fully formed frontal lobes. Frontal lobes are responsible, amongst other things, for impulse control, judgment, and problem solving. Just adding a little context. Even if society claims they’re an adult, functionally they’re not.
17 is legally not classified as an adult, you can’t vote, you can’t drink, in some cases you can’t even legally consent to having sex.
Developmentally, half of 25, is 12.5 years old. 17 is just about 3/4’s of the way developed.
You can start driving at the age of 15/16, start working close to 14. None of these things define adulthood.