After reading Northern Kenya’s explanation, I wanna fry the kid faster!
How many times, will we see these unnecessary tragedies happen and just let them be because the society is rotten.
Bro, I’m a grown man, but do you know what my mama will do to me if she found me with a gun? Hell, do you know what my sister will do to me?
That fear alone in itself is worse than a jail term! How come that fear works for me and not for these kids of today? What has changed?
I am for harsh and befitting punishment for such fools, they will have to learn whether they like it or not!

This is what he tells me:

So, apparently, the kid had no idea how to use a gun. So, he was showing off and he tries to disassemble the damned gun and apparently, the kids all freak out and he tells them to chill out. So,he tries to remove the bullets outs and as i hear, if you remove one bullet,you wont see the other one(I ain’t no gun totter,but that doesn’t sound correct). So,if you don’t know what you are doing,you could assume that the gun is fully unloaded. Anyhow, so, that fool,thinks that the bullets are all unloaded,aims the gun at his best bud and fires off. Unfortunately, it ended up being a real bullet.

Second mistake: Having the gun at all. But that is the society we’ve built. Whether you see it or not, guns are EVERYWHERE. And in many kids’ hands. If they don’t have it now, the movies and video games already have them thinking of it as toy, consequently, when (not if) they get it, they don’t regard it as the dangerous weapon it is. What next? they’re laughing and pointing it at eachother spewing out movie and rap lines like somebody got a damn camera in their face. Then, BANG, tragedy!

Naw, Sam didn’t mean to shoot Emmanuel. Why would he? Because his friend was getting recognition for playing football? C’mon. Sam is plain whole guilty of being stupid in a society that has reduced guns to toys, Black manhood to thug mentality. Put him in jail for a bit until he smartens up. But this is at best involuntary manslaughter.

@Northern Kenya, there’s the million dollar question. How do we deal with these kids. I think they are way too old to be canned – as in they’ve already lost their way. but how do we prevent the younger kids from following in the trail the older kids have already set?

This is why these young Africans need to be canned really. Why would a young African teen have a loaded GUN in his house?

We are having this problem in the Somali Community. Can someone please put an end to this?