2wolves: This will be interesting. Unintended consequences and all that.

yes, but sometimes people deserved violence...

And nothing of value was lost.

Did this happen at school or elsewhere?

Why isn't this on the Geek page?

Guess which kid at school nobody picks on ever again?

/punch me in the back of the head? you better believe that's a stabbin'.

Is it just me or does that Saavedra dude look like Michael Meyers?

Andrew Wiggin?

Good deal. Maybe some Clevons will get kicked out of the gene pool.

I could've filled up a graveyard with all the pukes giving me a bad time as a kid.

This should be a fun thread...

Ender did it.

Good. Finally a law that makes sense.

Now to end all the "zero tolerance" nonsense inside of schools. In nearly every conflict situation inside a school there is a bully and a victim - they should not be punished equally. In North Carolina, we have some absurd examples where victims of sexual assault inside a school defending themselves received the same suspension as the person assaulting them.

Good job Florida (finally!)

/seriously, common sense. well done.

A week for bullies, isn't it?

Not sad, for good or ill.
I'll be more forgiving in my next life.

TravelingFreakshow: Is it just me or does that Saavedra dude look like Michael Meyers?



Agreed. The unmistakable look of a man who felt like he was punched in the back of the head.

All I can say is Yay!

Author of article doesn't read his own words. Early in the article states the prosecutors won't seek an appeal. At end of article states no word if prosecutors will seek appeal.

2wolves: This will be interesting. Unintended consequences and all that.


Probably not as many as you think. Gang members, for example, have already tried to use the "stand your ground" defense in Florida, and it never flies. A key component of the defense is that you can't be otherwise breaking the law when you kill somebody.

Also, multiple hearings for this case were held. Other students with no particular interest in either side confirmed that the kid with the knife had been trying to get away, and the kid who got stabbed, along with his friends, had pursued the younger boy and attacked him.

So no, you can't just pick a fight with someone and use it as an excuse to kill them.

Let's see, I'm a liberal sensationalist prick newspaper editor, how can I make this story as biased as possible? I know, I'll find a picture of the dead "victim" kid looking his prom nite best:



Along with a picture of the bad gun-kid looking all Columbiney:



Plus a guilty-looking "in the dock" photo just for good measure.



There we go, my bleeding heart feels better now, plus, bonus of extra hits from trolltastic news aggregator sites.

a dozen stabs to the stomach, equals one punch??


devils advocate

If I can compare this to the Wal-Mart pepper spraying, it seems that the one thing that won't easily get you in trouble in this country is defending yourself against a bodily threat; serious or subtle.

/Yes I am, I am happy a bully got his. I am talking about the possible trend.

St_Francis_P: Dylan Nuno's mother, Kim Maxwell, called Collier Circuit Judge Lauren Brodie's decision "unbelievable."

Just once I'd like to have the perps mother or father say, "Yeah...the kid was a walking dick. Whatever."

Never happen. Why? Because kids of parents like that don't become bullies. They may try, however when they bully someone and their parents find out, their parents punish them. They will be made to understand that it is not ok behaviour.

Bullies are always from parents of one of three kinds:

1) The parents that just don't give a fark. They are just uncaring, or on drugs, or in jail, or whatever. They take no interest in their kids' lives and as such the kid can act out as they please.

2) The parents that deceive themselves. They believe their kids are perfect angels, against all evidence. When anything happens it is always "Oh my kid would never do that! The other kid must have provoked him!" The kids can bully because they parents always back them up on it, believing that it couldn't be their kid.

3) The parents themselves are bullies. They believe bullying is a good thing, if you are stronger yo can do it, and support their kid for "Not being a pansy," and shiat like that.


Hence, when this shiat happens, the parents never say "Ya he had ti coming," because if they believed that and cared, they would have intervened.

Well, the guy was pickin' on me on Facebook

lack of warmth: Author of article doesn't read his own words. Early in the article states the prosecutors won't seek an appeal. At end of article states no word if prosecutors will seek appeal.

he took so long writing that they changed their minds

Florida is for the retarded. In what kind of world is stabbing someone to death who is lightly punching your head considered to be all right?

I saw fights (and even bullying) when I was growing up and no one got stabbed.

Frankly, if you're carrying around and knife and you kill someone you should get premeditated murder. (the act of carrying the knife is the premeditation). In a sane world or state this is what would happen.

You fight back against a bully with either words or fists, not a farking DEADLY WEAPON!

This nimrod geek should be in juvie for life.

2wolves: This will be interesting. Unintended consequences and all that.

Er, my grandfather got out of very similar circumstances in Florida almost 80 years ago. "Unintended circumstances" my ass, the ruling just puts things back where they were before. They just seem more contextually out of place in a society where we try to rehabilitate, something I do agree with in principle. Unfortunately that only works if people choose to bottom out and get fed up before punching others in the brain stem; you kind of can't go back after that.

Act like an animal, get treated like an animal. Never too young to learn this.

Now the parents need a good shanking too.

Maybe instead of letting things get out of control to the point where someone gets killed, we should first acknowledge that bullying is not acceptable behavior and will be corrected.

You know, so that when the kid goes to their teacher or principal etc and says someone's being mean to them, the teacher or principal will recognize that this is a valid request for help and that their involvement is indicated.

As an added bonus, kids with problems can be helped, and the unhelpable can be identified (if not for institutionalization then at least as background to any future crimes).

In a perfect world, I can only hope that this makes thousands of bullies rethink their actions and choose a better path. I know we're not in a perfect world, but I can at least hope.

Good to see that at least the courts saw that this kid was getting hounded on a continual basis, was ambushed in a public place and was entitled to protect his own life.

Primum: Florida is for the retarded. In what kind of world is stabbing someone to death who is lightly punching your head considered to be all right?

I saw fights (and even bullying) when I was growing up and no one got stabbed.

Frankly, if you're carrying around and knife and you kill someone you should get premeditated murder. (the act of carrying the knife is the premeditation). In a sane world or state this is what would happen.

You fight back against a bully with either words or fists, not a farking DEADLY WEAPON!

This nimrod geek should be in juvie for life.

0/10-too obvious.....

Cagey B: And nothing of value was lost.

li'l shiat won't breed no mo
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