Teen arrested for showing guns on MySpace

[CptStern]

"A 16-year-old boy was arrested Wednesday after postings on the popular Web site MySpace.com allegedly showed him holding handguns, authorities said.

School spokesman Rick Kaufman said parents were calling with concerns and some kept their children home after photographs posted on the boy's profile on MySpace.com, a social networking Web site, began circulating through the community."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060223/ap_on_hi_te/myspace_guns

calling all gun owners: post a photo of you holding a gun and your age, we need to thin the ranks a bit :smoking:

 

[Yuri]

...so maybe MrWhite was right!

I wouldn't see how a f*cking picture on myspace is incriminating enough to suspend a kid from school, let alone let the police search your house. What if it were an airsoft or another replica gun, which are perfectly legal? Or if they were photoshopped? Good job, dumbass America.

Oh, here ya go, this explains it.

Evergreen High School is in the same district as Columbine High School

Hoorah for paranoia!

I hate my country more and more every day thanks to my dose of Cpt Stern!

 

[CptStern]

I thought it was because he was underage

 

[Solaris]

Me too.
They had just reason to search his house if they thought he had access to guns.

 

[Direwolf]

I think even thats a little shady. I understand parental concerns and suspension, but I'm a little confused by the idea of police arresting the kid, as theres more than one legitimate way for him to get a picture of him holding a gun.

 

[short recoil]

Will i get arrested now?

 

[Glirk Dient]

The local schools are also looking through peoples myspaces. If you have alchohol/drugs/anything you shouldnt on there they will get ya for it.

 

[Ren.182]

The local schools are also looking through peoples myspaces. If you have alchohol/drugs/anything you shouldnt on there they will get ya for it.

:|

America ftl.

 

[CptStern]

Will i get arrested now?

short recoil you need to do something about your pompadour

 

[Beerdude26]

zOMG SHORT RECOIL STARRED IN A MOVIE!

 

[JNightshade]

Yeah, this is America: land of the suck, home of the sucker.

 

[Dr. Freeman]

so a kid now without guns? great!! :thumbs:
btw, short recoil is above the law...he doesn't get arrested!!

 

[Yuri]

I thought it was because he was underage

It really doesn't matter at all. Myspace accounts should not be incriminating, that's just f*cking stupid. I could see searching his house if he had pictures of a corpse or some shit, but a gun when he is 2 years too young for it?

I am just hoping that they found something more incriminating than a f*cking picture on Myspace in order to search his house, because that seems to violate search and seizure laws to me. :|

 

[NotATool]

Hahaha.

NotATool: 1, Underage Gun Machos: 0

 

[Codcommando]

lol I should propably take those pictures of me drinking off of my myspace lol.....wait a tick? they can kiss my arse.

 

[TheHamster22]

I have that as a picture on my bebo account, IM DONE FOR! :|

 

[Beerdude26]

I have that as a picture on my bebo account, IM DONE FOR! :|

Ooh you're going to do some hard time for that :|

 

[Razor]

Complete over-reaction and completely stupid.

 

[tripleplay369]

Aparently some colleges are checking kids' myspaces these days before they admit them. It's rediculous.

 

[the_rebel_medic]

Righto, heres the "scoop".
On the condition that you have a junior gun license (in AUS avalible at 13) you can leagaly handle your parents weapons...on the condition that they are registered and withing the set license paramaters (classes and the likes)

Sub-machine guns and most semi automatic weapons are completely banned, as are all weapons above .40 Calibre. (meaning you can't have a .50 cal)

Devoted sniper rifles (as in the ones with un-removable scopes) millitary weapons (even if bolt or pump or break action) and quite a few magnum handguns are also banned.

Which type of handgun was he holding??

and on the condition his junior license had a H class on it, he would be allowed. Stupid School.

 

[RakuraiTenjin]

He owned it illegally, probably trying to show it off as 'gangsta' and being irresponsible. It's not illegal to use firearms as a minor. If he had it illegally, good riddance,a pparantly even his parents wanted something done about it. But please don't try to paint him as a 'typical gun owner'

 

[Fliko]

I wonder if they checked out a teacher's myspace in my school before they let her in.

 

[VirusType2]

It really doesn't matter at all. Myspace accounts should not be incriminating, that's just f*cking stupid. I could see searching his house if he had pictures of a corpse or some shit, but a gun when he is 2 years too young for it?

I am just hoping that they found something more incriminating than a f*cking picture on Myspace in order to search his house, because that seems to violate search and seizure laws to me. :|

My little brother has been hunting since he was legal (12 i think).
Whats the big deal?

He is old enough to hunt. I thought kids can fire pistols at like a shooting range with adult/parent/guardian supervision.

I can see if he had pictures of 20 kilos of cocaine in his closet or something but this might be a little unjust.

I was firing guns AT school at 15. Military school NRA club but so what?

Maybe he was acting in a threatening manner.

 

[RakuraiTenjin]

My little brother has been hunting since he was legal (12 i think).
Whats the big deal?

He is old enough to hunt. I thought kids can fire pistols at like a shooting range with adult/parent/guardian supervision.

I can see if he had pictures of 20 kilos of cocaine in his closet or something but this might be a little unjust.

I was firing guns AT school at 15. Military school NRA club but so what?

Maybe he was acting in a threatening manner.

Yeah I'm fairly sure that's what happened. Like I said, probably trying to be gangster, aiming at the camera finger on the trigger with a handgun he illegally had, rather than say a picture of him out at the range or something.