>in the old days, teens did not have time to get bored easily working in their parents fields

Don't know about your family. No one in mine has worked fields for many generations (at least 4, possibly many more than that), and neither did our teens exorcise their boredom by harming random people.

Tamar

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>>>>>>>http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/20/justice/australia-student-killed-oklahoma/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
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>>>>>>>So far, nobody has indicated whether the three ba$tards that did this were white/black/Hispanic/hare Krishna/??.
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>>>>>>>I really don't care. I have plenty of room in the pasture to recycle them. Bring them here - preferably alive.
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>>>>>>>UPDATE: Yes - My spelling stinks today
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>>>>>>If those killers don't end up in jail for life then there's something very wrong.
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>>>>>They should end up with some very stiff sentences, even in Oklahoma.
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>>>>IMO that just penalizes the taxpayers. They'll be stuck supporting the ba$tards for the rest of their lives either in prison or out.
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>>>True, but I don't think (note the optimal use of the word) Oklahoma has the death penalty any more....
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>>Death penalty is irrelevant here, I think. IIRC, not allowed for kids any more.
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>>Does no one else wonder what the hell happened to kids 15, 16 and 17 that would lead them to do this? This is not normal behavior; bored kids don't generally go out and shoot someone. So how they'd get their hands on a gun (or guns--the article doesn't say)? And what came before this?
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>>I'm not saying they shouldn't be punished, but if we don't learn from this and fix whatever's broken, then we allow it to happen again.
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>>Tamar