• FireRetardant@lemmy.world
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      18 days ago

      Breaking into a house and threatening a child is pyschopath behavior.

      The kid is 11, he is going to need a long time to process what has happen. There was adrenaline pumping, genuine risk to his life and a culture of self defense. Did you expect him to suddenly grab a medkit and approach someone larger and older than him who may not be fully incapacitated and already threatened him?

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        18 days ago

        I don’t expect a kid to do much of anything after shooting a person, intruder or not, not mock them for being in pain of a literal bullet wound.

        Granted if the parents taught him how to use a firearm they should also have taught him how to use a medical pack because accidents can and do happen with firearms and he should be able to patch up himself or someone else if an accident does happen.

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          18 days ago

          No civilian should be approaching a wounder intruder. They could have a concealed weapon like a knife or a gun.

          When the intruder broke in, they probably had a tough guy attitude and that attitude changed real quick when they felt pain.

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            18 days ago

            I never said the kid should have actually gone over and given any kind of first aid, but he should still be taught basic first aid if his parents are teaching him how to use a gun.

            It’s still psychopathic to mock someone who you just shot.

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              13 days ago

              I was taught first aid in cub scouts by that age. I wouldn’t have done anything to help a threatening adult

              I don’t think I would have shouted insults at him, but I wasn’t raised on games where you shoot people

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      18 days ago

      As the intruder walked down the stairs, “he told me he was going to kill me, f-you and all that,” Chris said.

      The final shot hit the man in the leg as he was hopping the fence, the boy said.

      The man was taken to a local hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening.

      Context is everything and you don’t have any. I’d be mocking the meth head who tried to kill 11 year old me as well. This kid is a hero.

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        18 days ago

        Wait the kid shot the man as he was trying to hop a fence and run away? Again, this is the behavior of actual psychopaths.

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        18 days ago

        Context doesn’t help - laughing at someone you shot is extremely disturbing behavior. 10x so for a child.

        The correct response is fear/adrenaline/panic or something to that effect.

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          18 days ago

          Can you tell me more about how context isn’t important in this circumstance?

          The child told news reporter this after the event occurred. We don’t even know whether or not he laughed like, “heh wow that was scary”. Or maniacally like the Joker.