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An attempted carjacking Saturday night left a 13-year-old dead after a security officer shot him; another boy, 12, is in custody

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Imagine how fucked and shitty your life has to be, to be a 12 or 13 year old trying to carjack people.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Not bad at all. Rich kids do horrific shit all the time. Like rape people, drive drunk and kill people, etc etc forever. This is just some kid who played gta, had some mental issues, went out and did shit, then didn’t have rich immoral parents to pay people off and bury it.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I didn't suggest rich kids were immune?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

But they are. 🤷‍♂️

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's lemmy! Where regardless of what topic you bring, you'll just get "rich people suck" and "fuck capitalism" as incoherent, tone deaf responses.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m not tone deaf. They’re saying that their life must suck. I’m saying that shitty behavior isn’t related to quality of life. I get that you’re center-right and middle class and tired of having to hear people talk about topics that don’t apply to you personally. But… grow up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Being rich doesn't mean your life doesn't suck, just that you don't have money problems.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Did you have a shitty childhood too?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Being rich and having a fucked up and shitty life aren't mutually exclusive.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The article links to another article and identified it with the boy who was killed. He went on a one night crime spree brandishing a gun and carjacking two cars and assaulting another in a failed carjacking. It's a crazy world.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's not normal behavior, it's just sad. Society is failing

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well it's because gun stores in America sell nukes to fetuses without a background check because capitalism is bad.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's worth noting that DC largely had its gun problem under control until the supreme Court told them they weren't allowed to enforce effective gun violence prevention laws.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Society is failing

how often does this sort of thing happen versus 20 years ago

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We did some pretty fucked up things when I was a teenager and while our lives did suck, the risky choices and crime were from being young and stupid, not poverty.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Having nothing to lose is a hell of a thing

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Being in prison or the juvenile court system is rarely an improvement regardless of how much your life sucks.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Imagine how many people have shitty lives and don't carjack people at 12.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Imagine how many people have refrained from writing a wholier than thou comment about a 12 year old child

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Sorry, i have shitty childhood disorder, couldn't help it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Some shitty 12 and 13 year old kids have great childhoods and are just shitty.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

not everyone gets a decent childhood