| No flames camper, but kids are kids and 17 year old high school seniors are not kids.
Their formative years of making stupid mistakes is long passed. They'll be in college, the working world or in the military in 8 months so you can't tell me that they are just kids being kids. If they can't make a good decision about whether to torture an animal to death or not now, how will they do when they are unleashed on the world with the rest of the class of 2008?
BTW: I had BB guns and sling shots and all that stuff and never killed an animal simply for the sake of killing it. I shot rocks and trees and cardboard boxes and was perfectly happy with that.
As far as the court cases go, the world is messed up and it gets worse every day. But I think the people protesting for animal rights want to make sure that someone is speaking for the animals because the animals can't for themselves. Sick criminals who sexually abuse children usually get punished without protestors on the courthouse steps because no normal person thinks it's OK for those things to happen and it's rare to see an abuser of children who is properly prosecuted get away without harsh punishment. Apparently, killing animals for amusement by our young people is so acceptable in our society(as your post illustrates) that perhaps the animals need someone to stand on the courthouse steps with signs to make sure someone does something to prevent future occurrences like this. |