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Charles L. Cotton wrote:
When I was growing up on Houston, we had a huge amount of kids in our post-WWII GI Bill neighborhood. At 10 years old, we played outside every Friday and Saturday night, running through neighbors' yards to well past 10:00PM and no one cared. No one got shot; no one even thought about pulling a gun in a group of kids that age. No one would shoot a 10 year old kid for walking across their lawn, or because some other kid bumped into his car. "It's 10:00 o'clock and where are your children?" Yeah, I remember that stupid commercial. How about this one, "It's 10:00 o'clock, where is your common sense; or your humanity, or appreciation of human life?"

This shooting is complete crap and there's no excuse for it.

Chas.

I remember when I was a kid and was playing with friends we would run across our neighbors yards all the time, we would even play hide a seek in their yards (they had really big trees). One of our favorite games was night tag... which was played at night... in the dark, when playing the only thing we really thought about was watch out for cars. If while playing we broke something in our neighbors yard you had better believe that the next day we were over there apologizing and seeing what we could do to fix or replace whatever we broke. In my opinion if you don't want the neighborhood kids in your yard inform their parents don't shoot them. I believe that sometimes (often) gun owner get steamrolled by the media, but this time no I cant see how this could have possibly been acceptable.

I agree that there are consequences for ones actions, but in this situation for a 11 year old girl, or boy to be shot is not acceptable.