Gothamist: Two Teens Apprehended in 11 Year Old's Death

MonkeyJoe

Wed, 19 Jul 2006 21:18:18 -0500

Kids in this country are getting dumber and dumber with each generation and more and more violent. I wonder, just wonder what our country will look like in 50 years assuming that guns are still around and illegal ones aren't kept off the street.

Brightliner

Wed, 19 Jul 2006 14:21:48 -0500

My first thought yesterday when the story was posted here was that it was something gang-related. That whole "splashed water on an Altima" excuse didn't, uh, wash. But I suspected if I wrote that, somebody would start a flame war with "Gangs! Why do you people always bring up gangs just because there's gunplay in a poor neighborhood?" Because it usually is? Where are all the NRA nuts now? Tell us this wouldn't have happened if everybody in that crowd had guns. Yup, this idiot wouldn't have opened fire if he thought the other people would shoot back. Oh, wait, the other gang members probably did have guns. We should still turn New York City into Dodge City, right? Maybe if we had appropriate punishment for people who are caught with illegal guns, like surgical amputation of the trigger finger, or better yet, the thumb. Try shooting without a thumb. Assuming you can put enough pressure on the trigger to fire, the gun comes flying back into your face due to recoil.

Rocknrope

Wed, 19 Jul 2006 12:27:32 -0500

"Because I'm a skinny white guy living in Bed-Stuy" should be a checkbox for automatic approval on the NYC concealed-carry application.

nick

Wed, 19 Jul 2006 11:24:31 -0500

vad bibes obviously cut school on the day they taught the class how to spell "huge"

Kojak

Wed, 19 Jul 2006 11:19:23 -0500

“No liquor stores” You must be mad. And we were all truants at some time in our lives. Like you’ve never cut school before? Though I hate when incidents like this occurs, your Utopian view on how things should be is too unrealistic pie in the sky.

vad bibes

Wed, 19 Jul 2006 11:02:31 -0500

TAKE BACK THE COMMUNITIES!!!!! No gun toating families. No drug dealing families. No truants. No dead beat dads or moms. No pedafiles/go live somewhere else. No excons hiding from the government and law. No liquor stores Get them out of your neighborhood and things will change. If the people would join together and speak up in advance, this would not be happening. This is no different then the drive by over a recent holiday when a little toddler was shot to death in the mini van. People who want to live a life with their families in peace have to step up to the plate. Form a hudge neighborhood watch. The neighborhood watch has to include half the occupants of every building in your neighborhood. The neighborhood watch should be there to make sure the community remains healthy. Look at the new families and old families living around you. The neighborhood should control its members.

solidago

Wed, 19 Jul 2006 10:51:13 -0500

"Get rid of the guns" is like saying "get rid of the heroin and crack" -- nice idea, but it ain't gonna happen. The vast majority of crimes are committed with illegal weapons. To legally have a handgun in NYC you have to present an EXTREMELY compelling case to the police department as to why you need one -- you can't just say "because I'm a skinny white guy living in Bed-Stuy." All that said, something definitely should be done about those dealers down south selling trunk loads to straw purchasers from NYC, which the city is trying to do.

queenz sidekick

Wed, 19 Jul 2006 10:31:40 -0500

This was in Corona, Queens? Wasn't this the area where that teen who stole the sidekick lives? Just as I figured, all the internet vigilantes didn't have the guts to go there unless they're in their car with the engine running.

Richard Liriano

Wed, 19 Jul 2006 09:56:07 -0500

This news is very tragic, my condolences to the family of Genesis Regalado, God bless her. As for the criminals who committed the crime, justice should be served against them.

mihow

Wed, 19 Jul 2006 09:30:52 -0500

How many times can I use seriously in a comment? At least twice, apparently.

mihow

Wed, 19 Jul 2006 09:24:07 -0500

From my cold dead hands... Guns suck. Period. Get rid of the guns, crimes like this won't happen as much. Seriously, screw an amendment to our constitution regarding marriage being solely between a man and a woman, seriously, how many innocent people die because two people of the same sex want to marry? If the senate wants to waste precious time amending the constitution, do something about that "right to bear arms" bit. Freedom is totally over-rated sometimes. Freedom will eat itself.

Jen

Wed, 19 Jul 2006 09:13:43 -0500

This is a terrible, terrible story. And thanks for pointing out the typo.

mickster

Wed, 19 Jul 2006 09:03:23 -0500

Well now they are going to "do it like a man" as they are sure to be tried as adults... What a tragic horrific story. And yes-it was over something stupid. Solution-break up the gangs-by moving them to different schools, Juvie, Jail or expelling them to their parent(s).

MT

Wed, 19 Jul 2006 08:58:14 -0500

What kind of animals are people? What sane person honestly thinks about shooting someone in the middle of the street over an argument in a chinese food restaurant? How do these people even function in society? I'm honestly dumbfounded. This poor little girl is dead and her brother is no doubt traumatized because some idiot decided to do something stupid. Am I naive to think that people should be smarter than this?