Yesterday in Nevada, a twelve-year-old boy brought a gun to his school, took it out, and shot another boy in the shoulder. When a teacher approached him and told him to put the gun away, the boy refused and shot the man in the chest, fatally wounding him. He then shot another student in the abdomen before fatally shooting himself. Both students who were shot are recovering and are going to be fine. Police say the boy, whose name is not being released by the press, got the handgun from his home and his parents may be facing charges.

This sickens me. Kids shooting kids and murdering teachers is just so wrong. This boy was just a kid! He wasn’t even my age, and he shot up his school! Why didn’t anyone see the warning signs? Why did he have access to a gun? Why do things like this happen?

My mom obviously thinks what happened is tragic, and she wonders how a twelve-year-old boy could be angry and despondent enough to kill himself and others in this way. She also thinks his parents are criminally negligent and should be charged, as should anyone who gives a child access to a gun. The author of this Yahoo! article,  Scott Sonner, showed no bias.