Watching the tube has taught them how a fool may be important without having to work at thinking. These young killers are nothing but fools, plain and simple. Let the world regard them as fools of low order. There will then be fewer new killers intent on taking their places in the headlines. A fool and a firearm is a deadly combination that has been with us since gunpowder appeared.
Fools have a compulsion to shoot a living being.
He would lie on my front terrace and grin at the world. Passersby would stop and talk to him. A 14-year old firearm fool with a loaded .22 had the quaint notion to fire down his open throat and then went blithely on his way. End of Chum. Senseless killing is old stuff and it hurts most when the victims are little kids.