That's where he found the loaded gun that he took to school. He also had little choice about the adults in his life so his decisions were frightfully like theirs. That's why he took a loaded gun to school. We know that residents of crack houses don't use gun locks. It's bad for business and could mean getting themselves shot.
Crack houses seem to attract that kind of activity.
In the aftermath of Kayla's death, the man who left the gun accessible to the young boy has been charged with manslaughter, little consolation for the parents of Kayla or any other parent who sends their kid to school each day. And, as is their wont to do, both sides of the gun control issue have come out smoking after Kayla's death, determined to gain the upper hand in the continuous debate over what it means to bear arms in this country. Meanwhile, the vast majority of us remain somewhere in the middle, somewhere between the notion that more guns will make us safer and idea that guns are the problem. Such hardened positions and the accompanying extreme rhetoric have once again dimmed hope for a reasonable discussion. Last week, Moses himself, actor Charlton Heston, who leads the powerful National Rifle Association called the president a liar and said Clinton and presidential candidate Al Gore exploited gun deaths for political gain.