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onehandle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 06:53 PM
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15-year-old Oakland girl charged with murder in friend's shooting
SAN LEANDRO — A 15-year-old Oakland girl was charged with murder today in the fatal shooting Sunday morning of an 18-year-old man she had been dating, authorities said.

Besides the murder charge, the girl, whose name was not released, also had an enhancement clause of use of a firearm added by Assistant District Attorney Matt Golde.

The girl is still in custody at Juvenile Hall in San Leandro and will have a detention hearing Thursday to determine whether she will be released from custody to her family or will be held for trial.

Golde, who heads the district attorney's juvenile division in San Leandro, said that the girl has no prior criminal record and that there are no plans to prosecute her as an adult.

http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_14915730?source=rss
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 08:54 PM
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1. I pray Canada doesn't go down the road to gun ownership that the USA has.
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Pavulon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 09:00 PM
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2. Funny thing is the laws are almost the same...
the only real difference is in culture, medical care, and other factors like drug law.
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tburnsten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 09:05 PM
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4. I'm quite positive that this young girl walked into a gunstore or show
and bought it without any questions asked.


She probably had a carry permit as well, so she could legally bring it over to shoot her boyfriend with.




























































































Naw, I'm just kidding, and you look like a tool for insinuating that our gun laws had anything to do with this.
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 09:14 PM
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5. You have a gun loving culture and it results in more deaths than our culture.
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tburnsten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 09:21 PM
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6. In Oakland California?
Do you know what city you're talking about?

That place is a hothouse for gangs, that is a GANG culture that spawned a fifteen year old willing to murder her boyfriend over God knows what, not a GUN culture. You see, our gun-enthused parts of the country have been buying literally tens of millions of new guns over the last thirty years, yet our accident rate has dropped through the floor, through the foundation even, while our murder rate is at a forty year low.


So guess what? Someone like myself, can safely say that no, it isn't our "gun culture" that is responsible for an abomination like this. I bet you mainly see guns in action movies and on the news though, so I wouldn't expect you to be familiar with their use, storage, or the eminently safe and responsible way they are used all over this fair nation every single day.

I read a story like this, and I feel sad, as a father sick to my stomach at the thought of this gril, who almost certainly did not have the advantage of a life with both parents, growing up in a gang-saturated city, murdering her young boyfriend over who-cares-what.

I bet our accident rate is lower than your accident rate.
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Pavulon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 09:35 PM
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7. We have crack, gangs, and poverty. Places like telluride co and other high income
communities make it clear what drives this activity.
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paulsby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-20-10 12:59 AM
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9. you have a love affair with drawing bogus conclusions
w/o evidenec.

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tburnsten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 09:03 PM
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3. I'm sure she had a carry permit didn't she?
What was it over, him fucking another girl?


Fail again Onehandle, except to show a real tragic ruination of two lives because one of them was a sociopath.
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GreenStormCloud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 09:44 PM
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8. How would taking my guns away from me help that situation? N/T
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proteus_lives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-13-10 01:12 AM
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12. Silly man. They never answer that question.
They run from it as fast as they can.
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jazzhound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-12-10 07:28 PM
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10. Unreal.

You used this senseless tragedy to score points in your endless evangelism against gun ownership?!?!
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proteus_lives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-13-10 01:11 AM
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11. Ban 15-year-old girls from Oakland.
It's the only way we'll be safe.
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shadowrider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-13-10 06:19 AM
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13. Ban people, then guns can have all the shootouts they want and no one gets hurt
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