Two Oregon Kids, 7 and 11-Years-old Attempt Armed Robbery

[mikeb302000]

The Deluth News Tribune reports via Joan Peterson

Two Oregon boys, ages 7 and 11, are accused of trying to rob a woman with a loaded gun, police said Sunday. The boys tried to carjack a 22-year-old woman who was in her family's truck waiting for her parents in a church parking lot, Portland police said in a statement.

Ami Garrett, of southeast Portland, told officers that when the boys approached her, the younger boy told the older boy to “show her your piece.”

The woman said that when she refused to give them her vehicle, they demanded cash and her phone. She said that as she drove away, she saw the 11-year-old boy pull a gun from his pocket.

The boys were apprehended in the parking lot by officers responding to reports of children with guns. Police said they recovered a loaded .22 caliber handgun from the older boy's pockets.

Detectives were investigating how the boys obtained a gun.

This is exactly the gun culture that Costas and Whitlock were talking about. The feckless investigators seem to be baffled as to how an 11-year-old could get a gun. A lengthy and complicated investigation is in order.

Of course, if we had licensing of gun owners and registration of guns it would take less than a minute to determine the gun belongs to daddy. As it is, it would take all of ten minutes to determine that. Let's see how the "investigation" pans out.

What's your opinion? Please leave a comment.
Cross posted at Mikeb302000

[trouble.smith]

1. Mom and dad's fault. Gangster culture's fault too.

the parent's need to be evaluated to see if they're fit.

[PavePusher]

2. Another self-contradictory piece from you, that entirely misses the point.

The root problem here is bad parenting.

Since you can't actually figure that out, I shudder to think of you having children.

[slackmaster]

3. If only there was a law that prevented young children from walking into Wal Mart and buying handguns

Of course, if we had licensing of gun owners and registration of guns it would take less than a minute to determine the gun belongs to daddy.

Gun ownership can be traced under current law. It takes more than a minute, but why is that a problem? The main thing is that the kids were stopped by good police work before anyone got hurt. So what if it takes a day or three to determine who owns the weapon?

[Glassunion]

4. Actaully using the systems we have in place now, it would not take that long to find the owner.

Here is the funny bit. If this happened in NY where they have registration and permits, the article would also end with "Detectives were investigating how the boys obtained a gun".

It all comes down to law enforcement. In AZ where there is no licencing and registration the news media knew in 4 hours the source of the gun. This tells me that the detective knew much sooner.

Run the SN, find the FFL, get the info from the FFL.

[Atypical Liberal]

5. I'm not willing to trade my anonymity for speedy police work.

I'm sorry if it takes some police work to determine who owned a firearm. I'm not willing to trade firearm ownership anonymity to solve this problem.

[ileus]

6. The more important part is the kids "belong to daddy"

The gun no big deal, two shitty assed punks is the problem here.

His piece could have been a baseball bat or tire iron with the same effect.

[Jenoch]

7. Jason, are you a parent?

I don't think have reproduce yet, otherwise you would recognize this as a parenting issue. The only gun-related part of this story is why the parents did not have the gun locked up. In Minnesota, that's a violation of law (that rarely gets prosecuted).