Young kids were shot trying to rob a man at gunpoint on Christmas night in north Harris County, TX

[u/305FUN2]

https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2024/12/26/young-kids-shot-trying-to-rob-man-at-gunpoint-in-north-harris-county-on-christmas-night/

[u/HelgaGeePataki]

Sad but young kids with guns are still a danger. A person has to do what they can to defend themselves.

[u/danny0wnz → u/[deleted]]

Do you wait until you get shot to determine the caliber of the gun and lethality of the threat..?

[u/Get-Fucked-Nerd → u/[deleted]]

A gun is a gun in the moment

No one is looking down the barrel to check if it’s a BB gun while it’s being pointed at you in a robbery attempt.

[u/CassiniPilot → u/[deleted]]

Are you gonna wait to find out if it’s a real gun?

[u/Analyzer9 → u/[deleted]]

Just because the children are stupid doesn't mean that someone should risk being killed for their sake. If you don't treat every apparent firearm like it's loaded and can destroy anything it points at, you are just a future casualty.

[u/tanktronic → u/[deleted]]

Oh piss off. You wanna die trying to confirm that?

[u/WaffleBlues → u/[deleted]]

Too bad the person being robbed didn't inquire first as to the type of gun being aimed at them before defending themselves...

[u/angelomoxley → u/[deleted]]

Makes them even more stupid. Started a fight they literally could not finish.

[u/HelgaGeePataki → u/[deleted]]

If it's not obvious that it's a BB gun then that's not much of a defense on their part.

[u/Yurtinx → u/[deleted]]

Braindead comment.

[u/Droobot33 → u/[deleted]]

Are you going to get out your ruler and measure the hole in the front of the barrel quick before the trigger is pulled to confirm you're safe because it's just a bb?

[u/unematti → u/[deleted]]

Did they announce that? Especially in USA you can't go giving benefit of doubt out like that

[u/Arturo_Binewski]

If you're old enough to try and rob someone at gunpoint you're old enough to face the consequences

[u/Sad-Hawk-2885]

Pre teen and teenagers know the difference between right and wrong.

[u/radioactivebeaver → u/Sad-Hawk-2885]

Arrest their parents. Kids don't just go committing armed robbery without being neglected or abused or some combination of the 2

[u/IwasMoises → u/radioactivebeaver]

Dude my parents adopted kids and most of us are fine but some just wanted to go be ghetto and get in trouble and rob its not a parents fault their kid willingly goes against what they teach sometimes not saying some parents dont care but to say all and want them arrested ruining their lives isnt a well thought out solution u sound like ur pretty naive about these things

[u/IR0NWARRIOR → u/radioactivebeaver]

You can't blame someone else for what people do. Sometimes kids are just bad, even with good parents. Arresting someone for another's crime is a slippery slope

[u/twoanddone_9737 → u/radioactivebeaver]

They know the difference between right and wrong

[u/Pied_Film10 → u/radioactivebeaver]

.... sometimes kids are just pieces of shit. Don't fault the parents.

[u/Kakita67 → u/radioactivebeaver]

This is just entirely untrue. All it really requires is poverty with the perception that there is no legal way to break the cycle. If these kids are *seeing their parents working hard and still not making it, but then see gang members appearing to have free time and the funds with which to enjoy it's not hard to guess who they will try to emulate. You want to reduce events like this? Then we need to pay livable wages and social safety nets which will make living a life like this much less appealing.

[u/7f00dbbe → u/Kakita67]

They know the difference between right and wrong.

[u/unematti → u/radioactivebeaver]

Absolutely this. You're their guardian. You're supposed to keep tabs on them. And if they're doing this, their parents failed them

[u/comdoasordo]

There was a situation near my former home in Louisville KY years ago where a teenager was burglarizing houses in an adjacent neighborhood. He carried a BB gun and was holding it when he was confronted by the police. He was ordered to drop the weapon and chose to run with it still in hand. The police put several rounds through him and he died at the scene.

While I normally would say this was police aggression typical of this city, the kid signed his own death warrant when he chose to break into houses with a weapon of any sort. Even in his last moments, he had a choice to live and made a very poor decision. For once I feel sympathy for a cop who had to end the life of a teenager who made a fatally stupid choice. One cannot live by the sword and not expect consequences.

[u/2CHINZZZ]

I don't think I would call 12-14 year olds "young kids"

[u/ketamineonthescene → u/2CHINZZZ]

Came here to say this. The article makes it sound like it's s couple 4 year olds.

[u/Calm_Memories → u/2CHINZZZ]

Ya, young kid to me is 5-9 or something.

[u/ModerateStimulation]

As you can see…the more you fuck around, the more you’re gonna find out

[u/MrScooterComputer]

The parents will blame everyone but themselves.

[u/grtaa]

And somehow the kids still won’t learn from this.

[u/jf2k4]

So if you ever go through firearms self defense training, they typically don’t advise you start shootings when it’s 4 on 1.

This guy got extremely lucky he was being robbed by idiots.

[u/Jellydonut7777]

Charge their parents too!

[u/IR0NWARRIOR → u/Jellydonut7777]

Why stop there? Arrest their whole family, arrest all their teachers, arrest everyone who made moves or games that may have influenced them, arrest musicians who they listened to, arrest anyone and everyone who they ever came in contact with because Im sure they somehow influenced them as well 🙄

[u/jamesybhoy77 → u/Jellydonut7777]

Why what did they do ?

[u/l_____I → u/jamesybhoy77]

Failed to do their jobs

[u/IwasMoises → u/l_____I]

Yea if only life was that simple and kids dont just intentionally like going against how their parents raised them jfc

[u/jamesybhoy77 → u/l_____I]

Did they how ? You are assuming they have not done there jobs, my Mother and father raised me right but i made stupid daft mistakes and sold drugs and got into fights when i was a teen, thats not on my parents thats on me

[u/CycloneMonkey → u/l_____I]

What measures did they and did they not take to prevent this from happening?

[u/Followthehype10 → u/jamesybhoy77]

Not raise their kids properly.

[u/jamesybhoy77 → u/Followthehype10]

So you know them then, what did they do that had there kids do that ?

[u/ivegotgoodnewsforyou → u/jamesybhoy77]

Failed to secure their firearms.

[u/jamesybhoy77 → u/ivegotgoodnewsforyou]

Is it in the article that happend ?

[u/jamesybhoy77 → u/[deleted]]

Maybe but can you blame the parents if the kid sneeks out ?

[u/mrq57 → u/[deleted]]

I'd reckon to say this is bad news all around. No winners in this story

[u/Lurking_like_Cthulhu → u/mrq57]

The news is the winner, as it always is.

[u/New_Housing785]

Totally normal I guess these days. I expect half the comments to somehow be celebrating this guy shooting the kids.

[u/GreedAndPride → u/New_Housing785]

What’s wrong with rooting for the good guy

[u/GoWest1223]

"This wouldn't happen in a Trump county..." /S