Saturday, October 26, 2013

The Fascinating Story of Young Joseph Hall - Product and Victim of the Gun Culture

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Joseph Hall

Jeff Hall was killed by his own son, who was 10-years-old at the time, from a single gunshot wound to the head at point blank range from a .357 Magnum. (Photo credit: AP)
Jeff Hall was killed by his own son, who was 10-years-old at the time, from a single gunshot wound to the head at point blank range from a .357 Magnum. (Photo credit: AP)

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The hearing to determine where and how the now 13-year-old boy will spend the rest of his teen years and likely part of his young adulthood enters the final stage today, the Associated Press reported. But the task at hand for the Riverside County, California, judge isn’t simply to determine how to punish the boy for fatally shooting his neo-Nazi father at point blank range, but to also come up with the best plan of rehabilitation for the boy who grew up in an abusive home and has had a history of violence since kindergarten.

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  1. Actually not a product of the gun culture but of socialist fanaticism. I am glad to hear his condition is improving under proper care.

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    1. Yeah, you can deny that the kid had no influence from the gun culture if you like. But, who else knows that taking a gun and blowing someone's brains out is the answer, and at 10, has access to a gun?

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  2. Mikeb, you act as though "gun culture" is some monolithic single entity. This child comes from an abusive home. That's not because of guns. The presence of guns didn't cause the father to be an asshole. Naturally, you can't see the real causes here, and that's why you remain ineffective at offering any solutions.

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    1. Only in a gun home doe a 10-year-old blow daddy's brains out with a gun. Lots of people grow up in abusive homes, but you gun owners can take claim of this one.

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  3. The question is unavoidable, whether the child, for whatever reasons, did a service to his community by killing his despicable father, who bore such a repugnant ideology. It is obvious how a child, reared in the cradle of hate, and nursed on violence would have the capacity to commit such an act. It would appear be both in the interest of fairness to the child, as well as rational for the community as a whole to exercise punitive restraint, and attempt to rehabilitate the child, instead of punishing him.

    With this in mind however, the fact is unavoidable that America (and occasionally California) is a nation of laws, which become irrelevant stains on parchment if applied inconsistently. To devalue a single piece of the framework, is to compromise the system in its entirety. By exercising "mercy" on the most victimised offender, we damn his entire generation to live in a lawless society. However superficially wrong it may appear, the guilty must be punished, even sacrificed at the alter of the republic.

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  4. did anyone here watch the show?

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