8 Year Old, Part 2

Yesterday I was upset with the unknown gangbanger who accidentally shot an 8 year old kid.

Today our police superintendent was upset with the kid's parents.

"I hate to say it, but the parents are to blame for that 8-year-old being shot. They choose to engage in this activity. Now we have an innocent 8-year-old who is shot," Police Supt. Jody Weis said Tuesday at an unrelated news conference, in some of his harshest words yet about the wave of child shootings.

They seem to be working on the theory that the dad was involved in rough business dealings.

Well, it was 10 at night, on a school night, and this family had all 5 of their kids in a van, parked on the street, in a tough neighborhood. The mom was sitting in the front seat, and the dad was out on the street talking to another man.

What were they talking about?

Possibly he was asking the other man
how to get all the kids in his clan
to do their homework while riding around in a van.