Hiding behind a lawyer

How many times is this defense going to play out? I brought the gun to school but I didn’t mean to hurt anyone. What a load of crap!

A 16-year-old kid, in this the most violent gun-worshiping country on earth, knows what guns are for, that’s why he chose this lethal tool to force his principal to do what he wanted. If there truly was no intention of hurting the person this kid pointed the gun at then why was his finger on the trigger? If you don’t intend to use the gun then you have no need for it to be loaded.

Why is this case wasting courts time?

This is another example of how this justice system needs to be revamped. Prosecutors must prove that 16-year-old Eric Hainstock intended to kill John Klang, Weston Schools principal, the moment he pulled the trigger, three times.

This is nonsense. A loaded weapon has too great a potential to cause death for anyone to believe it can be used ‘just to threaten’ or wound.

The judge only needs to review the basic facts and match them up to a mandatory sentence and tell the defendant what the sentence is. The facts are, he took a loaded gun to school (it doesn't natter what his intentions were) and as a result his clearly intended victim was killed. There should be no room for lawyers to lie about extenuating circumstances in an attempt to get him off of these very serious charges.

And clearly, in hindsight, the principal was foolish to think he could be hero enough to wrestle the gun away from him. He should have let the police take care of it. I know it could have turned into a hostage situation but who can say it would not have anyway?

These school kids need to be given avenues of airing their grievances. They need to be aware that if someone in authority is not taking their complaints seriously then they can go to someone who can investigate and get the matter settled.

This boy should not have been made to feel that he was so alone in his troubles that this was his only option.

But, he alone chose this option and as a result, several families lives have been shattered and we, as taxpayers, will have to support him for as long as he is incarcerated. And, once he is incarcerated our stellar example of a prison system will only serve to damage this kids social skills and psychological outlook at how this society views him. And who can tell what the image of this man dying in front of him will do to this kid and all of those who witnessed it?

What led up to this event? He claims that bully’s were picking on him and that the principal and teachers ‘turned their backs’ to it. I don’t think every teacher turned their back on him. I don’t think the principal would not do something to end this behavior. Do I think there is some mental problem with this kid? Yes, there obviously is a problem if he thinks he has to use a gun to get attention.

The investigators, who I am confident know their jobs, need to investigate this and decide if his claims are true. If so, then charges should be brought against the school system and possibly those teachers involved in this so called 'conspiracy’.

But whatever the outcome of that investigation, this kid needs to spend time in prison for resorting to such drastic measures. That much should be ‘cut and dried’ regardless of his so called ‘attention deficit disorder’ and his claimed ‘abused at home’. These are nothing more than tools of deception used by manipulative lawyers to paint their client as the real victim in hopes of leniency.

Someone out there will say that because of his ‘mental problems’ and his ‘abusive home life’ he should be spared. To this I say these are not valid contributing factors. There are many kids out there who are abused (a very sad fact indeed) and they don’t use a gun to try to end any of it. Besides, if he was abused at home why didn’t he use the gun at home?

As far as ‘attention deficit disorder’ goes, his attention span was long enough to plan this course of action, to collect the two guns he took to school with him and to load the guns. His attention was clearly not deficient. He was focused for far too long to claim he was unable to focus on anything.

Don’t take this lawyers claims as truth. Any lawyer will lie and manipulate the facts to win their case.

This kid shot his principal three times, there is no way anyone can honestly think this was an accident. And his lawyer should be ashamed herself for trying to get leniency for him.