When Kids Kill
City Journal,
by
Barry Latzer
Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect,
12/23/2019 5:02:08 AM
The brutal murder of Tessa Majors, an 18-year-old college student, attacked as she walked through Morningside Park in Manhattan, has chilled New Yorkers. According to news accounts, Majors was robbed and stabbed by three youths who accosted her, put her in a headlock, and emptied her pockets, then slashed her repeatedly with a four-inch knife blade. Found by police, she was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where she died. The prime suspects are three teenage boys, ages 13 and 14—the third hasn’t yet been apprehended—who confessed to seeking robbery victims in the park.
This horrible incident touches two raw nerves: one dealing with criminal responsibility and punishment for adolescents,
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Sunhan65 12/23/2019 6:01:54 AM (No. 269582)
They don't matter. The person they killed matters. Every moment they continue to exist is a mistake. The idea that we owe them anything -- reform, understanding and empathy for their upbringing, a "second chance," the opportunity to experience remorse and grow as a result -- is grotesque.
They don't deserve to live. If all three had been killed crossing the street on their way to murder her, she would be alive and the world would be a better place. If she had killed all three during the attack, we would hail her as a hero -- a tough, capable person who saved herself while doing the necessary work of destroying evil.
She may have tried. We know she fought. She failed only because she wasn't strong enough. We have no such excuse. We didn't protect her, but we can still avenge her.
Destroy them.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
BirdsNest 12/23/2019 6:05:38 AM (No. 269583)
Put them UNDER the jail.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
chumley 12/23/2019 6:16:56 AM (No. 269587)
What bugs me is that I am being forced to reassess my anti-abortion stance.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
PChristopher 12/23/2019 6:24:47 AM (No. 269593)
Teenage brains might be a work in progress but their victims are just as dead as if an adult had done it. Put them away.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
lakerman1 12/23/2019 7:24:59 AM (No. 269631)
A friend from graduate school, circa 1970, had spent a decade as a probation/parole officer in Upstate New York. As part of her job, she had to visit rough neighborhoods.
She said that the scariest part of her job was not dealing with her criminal clients - that it was dealing with groups of pre-teens who roamed those neighborhoods.
I would observe that we learn good versus bad behavior early on in life. And if our parents were not available to teach us those concepts, or were fundamentally dishonest themselves, the end result is criminality.
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NYC is pretty far from Lancaster County PA where the Amish and Mennonite relatives are.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 12/23/2019 7:51:42 AM (No. 269663)
Evil cannot be fixed - it must be destroyed.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Heraclitus 12/23/2019 8:00:02 AM (No. 269673)
These criminal, increasingly nihilistic youth are the product of leftwing political schemes: with their amorality, "relativity" and deconstructionism plucked out of literary criticism and applied to all human relationships, Nietzschean "transvaluation of all values" which permits... no... demands that Truth, moral absolutes, Good vs Evil do not exist, that God, THE moral arbiter, is irrelevant.
It is essential to point the finger of blame at Democrat/Leftists, because politics is how life is being ordered. And as more and more people leave the Church, culture and civilization, and societal organization decline, inhumanity to man increases. Cruelty becomes a fungible term; for example, you can protect a vicious murderer, but celebrate those who tear apart a helpless infant in the womb.
I blame the Democrats, and the parents who elect them for their own venal purposes, or the silly and foolish voters tempted by the illusions of socialism/communism, and the mushy, trembling, fearful "republicans" who stick in their thumbs and pull out a plumb, and say, My, my, what good people I am.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 12/23/2019 8:20:58 AM (No. 269691)
A dear friend was murdered in D.C. by three "youths" aged 13, 14, and 15. All three were tried as juveniles and have since been released. At least one has committed a second murder. There's something wrong with a system that allows such predators chance after chance to ruin the lives of innocent people.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Clinger 12/23/2019 8:24:11 AM (No. 269696)
For there to ever be any possibility of rehabilitation for these young savages we would first need to rehabilitate our society. To think we could extinguish the hatred bred from notion that white people have it coming because they are inherently racist and are the source of every dissatisfaction in life, only to turn them back into a society that constantly bombards them with the message that white people are indeed the source of all that's bad, is preposterous.
The race baiters have blood on their hands, the media had blood on their hands, academia has blood on their hands as do many of our foolish neighbors.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Newtsche 12/23/2019 8:27:25 AM (No. 269698)
Beware of those using "kids" or "moms", they're always hand-wringers.
Barry Latzer knows the script and predictably plugs in the pieces.
Of course, the unborn/new born can't lack judgment and don't count.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
walcb 12/23/2019 8:46:50 AM (No. 269712)
Prisons are just training camps. All prison cells should be solitary confinement, about 8'x8' with a TV showing Hallmark movies (but not the commercials).
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 12/23/2019 9:00:23 AM (No. 269730)
If this crime was black on white, the story will never see the light of day. The three boys most likely come from broken homes where the boys hate their own mothers. They are old enough to receive the Jeff Epstein treatment.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
DVC 12/23/2019 9:26:30 AM (No. 269767)
Vicious, murdering thugs should be treated the same, no special treatment for age. NONE.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 12/23/2019 9:40:45 AM (No. 269784)
Missing fathers is only part of the problem. The women in these families are also falling down on the job. Just read Ben Carson's own life story. His mom definitely ruled the roost in his early life. She made sure her kids took care of business. Most of these deadbeat mothers and grandmothers raising these little terrorists are too busy living their own lives to stay involved with their kids and make sure the kids grow up good citizens. When you have sprouts coming from very rocky soil as these little thugs did/do, no wonder we have problems. If you are old enough to take a life, you should be considered old enough to pay the penalty.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Strike3 12/23/2019 9:44:04 AM (No. 269790)
We are not going to fix society at this point, it has gone too far and the people who have broken it do not live in these neighborhoods, they live in nice suburbs and teach in our schools and they are trusted to make the laws and rules. Their lives consist of cocktail parties and theaters. Reality escapes them. The best that one can do is carry effective weapons when near these animal dens and protect yourself with vicious defense if accosted. Remember, the little creatures will not go to jail but YOU probably will. If I have to kill to protect my friends and family it will have been worth it. 13 or 33, there is no difference.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
jacksin5 12/23/2019 10:02:30 AM (No. 269816)
When you see a child as a paycheck........
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
3D-Chess 12/23/2019 10:12:05 AM (No. 269834)
Crime and illegitimacy in the Black community was about the same as Whites until democrats
corrupted the whole system by allowing unwed mothers to receive medicaid health insurance, food stamps
and monthly welfare check💲 for having illegitimate children. In order to benefit for the freebies
the mother had to be single. This is like giving a crack addict a free endless supply.
Yes, the democrats starting this whole fiasco. Rush WAS right❗
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
msjena 12/23/2019 11:26:39 AM (No. 269907)
I'm afraid these "children" will end up coddled and lionized, like the Central Park jogger defendants, who confessed to attacking her. Will there be a Netflix movie about them, too?
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 12/23/2019 12:39:25 PM (No. 269950)
Feral humans exist all around the world, it's just that most Americans don't travel abroad to see it and are SHOCKED to find it exists in the land of freedom and liberty. Paraphrasing the government anti-drug commercial from the 1970's: "This is your country... this is your country under four generations of the welfare state."
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Enoch Powell 12/23/2019 1:09:01 PM (No. 269973)
Charles Murray had a few things to say about this... five things... family and faith were two. Also work. See what this kid had going for him. I bet... nothing.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
RedWhite&Blue2 12/23/2019 2:31:30 PM (No. 270013)
73% illegitimate births
That’s “birth-control”?
Are these women that ignorant?
Are these men that depraved?
Are these bastid kids that violent?
Do we always have to pay for their “flings”?
Seems we NEVER have this “discussion”
Affirmative-action my behind!
Clean up your race!
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
BillW. 12/23/2019 2:59:11 PM (No. 270019)
As depraved as this is -- and as spot-on as all of your comments are -- one wonders why NYC's weekend murder rates don't even come close to Chicago's?
Vets for Trump 2020
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Faithfully 12/23/2019 4:30:40 PM (No. 270060)
I don't care what you do with them, just keep them away from us.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
4Justice 12/24/2019 2:41:18 AM (No. 270249)
#19, We can thank LBJ for nearly completely destroying the once strong black nuclear family.
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#18 Has the real answer. Good people suffer while ferals go forth and multiply. Often grandmothers are trying to raise these kids they can't control because their mothers are in prison, deserted them to go find another 'fiancee', on drugs or deceased. Here a 13 year old shot a 25 year old and grandma is the only one who cares.
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