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Florida deputy’s son, 10, accused of selling dead father’s gun to classmate for $300 (www.nbcnews.com)

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Two 10-year-old students were arrested in connection with a gun sold at their elementary school in Florida, county officials confirmed.

A deputy's son "agreed to exchange a handgun, (later found to belong to his deceased father), for a sum of $300" back in February, the Hendry County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.

The Country Oaks Elementary School was placed under lockdown Wednesday morning after the sheriff's office received a call about "a suspicious incident" on campus. Authorities discovered ammunition in the backpack of the boy who purchased the gun.

The gun was later found in his backyard under a shed, hidden with a 74-gram bag of marijuana, according to investigators.

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[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 50 points 10 months ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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[-] MagicShel@programming.dev 40 points 10 months ago

Mostly because they have brains.

I'm fucking jealous. Don't get me wrong, my kids are bright, but my ten year old got expelled for taking a steak knife to school - something I'd never in a million years have suspected she'd do. But one of her friends thought it would be funny, and you know how you or I might joke about telling our boss to go fuck himself, but we'd never actually do it? My daughter knew better, but in that moment all she thought about was clowning around.

She is already the most independent, hardest working kid I've known. I raised her to be that way and I'm damn proud of her. Some day she's going to be a force to be reckoned with. It's just like most children she's a fucking idiot sometimes. It's not her fault. I was a fucking idiot when I was a kid too. And based on stories I've heard, so was my dad. And then you look at the science and it turns out nearly every kid is a fucking idiot because a child's brain isn't an adult brain. And for some reason us parents tend to be the last to know.

You and I feel similarly about what sane gun laws should be and I don't really look to argue about that, but damn as one parent to another every time I hear someone say their child would never do some stupid thing or another because they are smart or raised right, I just think to myself that person either hit the jackpot or they are naive about how kids' brains work. I've raised five kids. Every damn one of them has done at least one idiotic thing I never in a million years believed they would do.

So don't ever rely solely on your kids' intelligence or adherence to rules to keep them safe. You don't ever want their moment of idiocy to involve a firearm. Best of fortunes my friend - to you and your kids.

[-] prole@sh.itjust.works 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

but damn as one parent to another every time I hear someone say their child would never do some stupid thing or another because they are smart or raised right, I just think to myself that person either hit the jackpot or they are naive about how kids’ brains work.

It is simply an extension of their narcissism. They see their child as an extension of themselves (at least for now, the child will inevitably leave them when they see how toxic they are), and in their mind it isn't possible for them to do wrong.

[-] PsychedSy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 months ago

I mean I'll still shoot myself in the foot if I think it's hilarious.

[-] vaseltarp@lemmy.basedcount.com 17 points 10 months ago

which they couldn’t arm and fire if their lives depended on it

Do not underestimate children.

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[-] prole@sh.itjust.works 12 points 10 months ago

And when shit like this comes up, I’m screaming, “How did a 10-yo have access to a GUN!?”

Hang around here long enough, and someone is bound to respond and try to defend it. Has happened to me multiple times. Apparently thinking that children shouldn't have access to firearms, period, is a controversial take in the US now.

[-] bitchkat@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

The article says the gun belonged to his dead dad. It doesn't offer any evidence of when his dad died or how he came to be in possession,

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[-] SaintWacko@midwest.social 10 points 10 months ago

Even my home defense gun is in a biometric safe in my nightstand... Two of the others have trigger locks, and the other two are flintlocks

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

Most gun owners, despite all the talk of "responsible gun owners" are nowhere near as responsible as you. I wish more were. Good for you for understanding gun safety.

[-] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 7 points 10 months ago

Hope those are some damned good trigger locks cause you can get past some with a hammer and screwdriver. My uncle lost his keys at some point and that was his solution.

[-] SaintWacko@midwest.social 6 points 10 months ago

Oh, it's certainly not as secure as a safe, but they're long arms, kept unloaded, with the ammo elsewhere

[-] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

Okay thats a tad bit more reasonable, still wouldnt trust em personally but if youre comfortable thats all that matters.

[-] fah_Q@lemmy.ca 6 points 10 months ago

What if a 10 year old breaks into my house and tries to steal my "one home protection gun" should i blast him? Let's say he is large for his age and it's a dark and foggy night?

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Can you give an example of this ever having happened?

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[-] Che_Donkey@lemmy.ml 38 points 10 months ago

Follow up story: 10 year olds' gun charges dropped after being sentenced to 55 years on the mara-juannas.

[-] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Oh thank God! I'm glad this dangerous substance was removed off the streets. Dozens of kids could have gotten high from that. /s

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 35 points 10 months ago

I wish I had $300 when I was 10. I would have spent $150 on Star Wars figures and another $150 on G.I. Joes.

[-] Ithral 13 points 10 months ago

I probably would have bought Bionicles, still sad they got discontinued

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

That was after my time, but I'm reading about it now. It sounds cool. I probably would have been into it.

[-] Ithral 6 points 10 months ago

Oh yeah, and the lore rabbit hole gets deep, read most of the comics and books, it was really cool as a whole universe with supporting toys.

[-] Zahille7@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Fuck yeah it was.

I went back a little while ago and reread through some of the lore on the wiki and all these memories came rushing back.

[-] Emerald@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

They discontinued them? Those ********ing ****** ***** *****s.

[-] chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 10 months ago

Legos and SNES games for me. Probably more the Legos. I used to look through the catalogs longly, wishing I could afford the bigger city, jungle, and pirate sets.

Nowadays I still look longingly, but at more sets and a little less at the city sets.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

I was never hugely into Lego. I enjoyed it and had some, but it wasn't the thing I was totally into.

I like that they have adult stuff now though. I can't say I had a lot of fun putting together the Lego Yellow Submarine, but it was still worth the experience.

I got my wife some of the Lego plants they have now for her birthday last year. Succulents and an orchid, I think. She loved them.

There's no reason creative toys like Lego need to be just for kids.

Also, there's an antique mall near me that has a booth with like every G.I. Joe figure and vehicle made in the 80s. My parents would have had to drag me away from that booth.

[-] chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 months ago

Yeah, I love the adult ones too, and aside from my personal experience I've heard a lot of people discuss the calming feeling it gives. For people with ADHD alot of us find it calming, relaxing, and something we can focus on unlike other ventures. Gives lots of hits of dopamine for each section you do etc.

[-] deezbutts@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

Ya but with a gun you can steal all the gi joes you want

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[-] babypigeon@lemmy.world 33 points 10 months ago

"The gun was later found in his backyard under a shed, hidden with a 74-gram bag of marijuana, according to investigators."

This whole story would a great opening to a film about a mob kingpin.

[-] jeffw@lemmy.world 35 points 10 months ago

It’s honestly kind of sad. What 10 year old is buying guns and 74 fucking grams of weed?

[-] babypigeon@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

A future mob kingpin.

[-] jeffw@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

I doubt he’ll get that far if he’s getting high at 10. Probably got a fucked up life

[-] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

You don't buy a QP to get high. You buy it to sell.

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[-] Pacmanlives@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Quick math 74 grams is 2.61 ounces which is like what I can get for a little over a 100 buck legally for meh shit. Primo it could be ~300-500 bucks worth in a legal market for perspective. Still a 10 year old should not have either in their possession

[-] Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

You think this gun toting 10 year old don't have the primo shit??

[-] Pacmanlives@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

How would he even know? Not like he has years of experience smoking the sticky icky as snoop say. Probably brick grass because the dealer knows he will get away will selling skunk weed to a 10 year old because he is a piece of shit for selling a 10 year old grass

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Bugsy Malone II: Bugs Harder

[-] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 26 points 10 months ago

How did a 10 year old get $300, presumably in cash, and wtf was he going to do with it?!

That kid is gonna be an arms dealer.

[-] 520@kbin.social 11 points 10 months ago

Kid might simply be a mule for an adult buyer

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[-] capital@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago

There are some seriously fucked up parents on both sides of this transaction.

[-] RemoveEgoDivineFreedom@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

Guns are the issue. Fuck anyone that says otherwise.

[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 14 points 10 months ago

That removes ALL other factors, and simplifies too much, it doesn't ask why a 10 year old kid had 74g of marijuana in the first place.

Guns are part of the issue, drugs are part of the issue, family and social life are part of the issue, finances are part of the issue

Just going "gun bad" solves nothing.

I do wish the US would institute proper gun control systems, like a national registry, with random checkups on how guns are stored. It won't happen, the gun lobby is too strong.

I am glad I live in northern Europe where we don't have the obsession with guns that the US has.

[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Wasn't aware Finland was no longer part of the Northern Europe.

[-] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Floridaman's origin story.

[-] sramder@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Seriously! I was just thinking this was the most Florida headline I had heard this year.

[-] TIMMAY@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Capitalism.

[-] SeaJ@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

That deputy is another totally responsible gun owner. /s

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