Originally Posted by
zeppinger
Good point. If the shooters were underage then the parents should get in trouble as well. It is illegal to buy a BB gun if you are under 18 in most states I believe so how did they get the gun? Someone's parents gave it to them.
Or maybe they stole it... either way, I'm not saying it's the parents' fault for allowing them to have a gun. I remember shooting bb guns as a kid. It was fun to have target practice in a remote field, shooting cans and crap off a ledge. When I have kids, I will teach them how to shoot guns at the appropriate age. And I will teach them even more about responsibility.
I am saying it is the parents' fault for not instilling better values, starting at a much younger age then they are now (if they are even still kids). It is the parents' fault that the kid was not thinking "maybe I should not pull the trigger on that couple riding their bikes". If they didn't have a gun, they would find some other way to harm other people for kicks.