Teens Armed with Assault Rifle Run From the Law

Glad these kids are off the street... The last thing anyone needs is a bunch of teenage kids running around with guns. Eventually, one of them is going to try something stupid and end up either getting shot, or shooting someone. People with kids need to start thinking about this stuff before lots of consequences start to ripple throughout our community.

Were they gang members are just kids with a gun out speeding and too dumb to stop when the law caught them speeding?
If we have gang bangers roaming the streets with assault rifles, the public needs to be made aware of this. I am afraid the authorities don't really want us to know who we might run into when we are out and about.
If gangs have taken over our schools and parts of our city and county we need to know.

How long before they bust out of Juvie? All they need is a couple of kitchen utensils and they'll be back out on the streets before you can say San Angelo Live!

Whoever does the headlines needs to learn that by definition, an AR15 is not an assault weapon. It is a semi automatic (one trigger pull one bullet leaves the barrel), not an automatic (one trigger pull multiple bullets leave the barrel). It is similar to many other hunting and target shooting rifles. For some reason, some folks have decided that it is scary looking and therefore bad.

In El Salvador, gangs have become such a problem, the authorities have implemented an effective operation used to cull gang membership numbers, known as "mana dura" (or iron fist). If you're a gang member, an affiliate or even a low-level neighborhood lookout, the authorities storm your family's house and deliver a no nonsense message, to neglectful/indifferent families who have no qualms breeding litters of junior criminals.

Gangs are a form of organized crime. Organized crime is a form of terrorism. Isn't is odd how many average Americans will nearly wet themselves over the sight of Hijabs and Burkas, but hardly bat an eye at the teams of native scum we have roaming our streets on a daily basis.

If some idiot shoots up a public place and has a few anti-American Facebook posts, the FEDS are kicking down the doors of girlfriends and family members within the incident's following hours. The M.O. should be the same when validated gang members or habitual teen offenders are arrested. YOU know if you're raising a POS. YOU know if they're engaging in criminal activity.

Irresponsible parents know what an infantilized culture their kids are living in. They know that until their loser offspring kills someone, they won't be truly liable or accountable for much of anything.

Start holding parents accountable for the vermin they've unleash onto the streets, make the consequences painful and costly. The animals who raise these types have no sense of responsibility, or shame for a lack of parenting skills. What they DO understand are court costs and jail time. Start doling out some of that, at nearly the rate second, third, tenth chances are alotted, and suddenly we're no longer in car chases with teenagers carrying high powered firearms.

Will authorities release info pertaining to the fact that these kids were gang related or not?

The gangs are taking over our schools, we deserve to know if they ar running around armed with semi- automatic rifles, on our streets.

We will not pressure our law enforcement to crack down on these hoodlums if we do not know the facts about what they are doing. From what I hear from concerned parents, our good kids in school are having to dodge these gang bangers on a daily basis, but the schools cover up the situation so not to look bad.
Society cannot react unless they are informed about a problem. Look back at how the media and school admin. covered a rumored shooting threat at Lincoln jr.high. Twenty -five percent of the parents kept their kids home because of threat, all admin. And media were concerned with was state money that did not come in that day because of abscences. They need to worry about cleaning these little vermin out of our schools, send them to juvenile delinquents' school where they belong.

Authorities will not do anything unless pressured by the public.

I respect and agree with most of your post Lares, but I have to disagree with you, all lives do matter. While I don't think that their lives are more valuable than others lives, I can't agree with saying they don't matter. These kids need to receive a harsh punishment, no doubt, and over time they could end up living differently. I'll give you this though, while they act the way they are currently acting, they aren't worth making excuses for or babying, they need to feel the rod for these stupid actions and should be away from the rest of society for a while.

Also, does it really matter if these kids were gangbangers? If they are doing the same type of things, it doesn't matter if they can be tied to a specific "Click". They need to face the punishment for their actions, as do any others acting the same way, gang or no gang.
If you are truly concerned about your kids being around gangster's in school, maybe you should make the sacrifice to take your kids out of school.

I don't expect everyone to agree with me that these kids lives do matter... Although that's my belief, I also know that they are making their own choices and have to deal with the natural consequences of those choices... I don't think that their childhood is an issue, nor the level of parenting, it ultimately comes down to what they do with their free will.

I wasn't referring to you Lares when I talked about the schooling portion of my previous rant, although I agree with your decision to look at alternative options, my kiddo's aren't school age either, the oldest is already much more advanced than kids his age though. Already reading at second grade levels and writing, he hasn't even started an actual curriculum yet. That's how I know that homeschooling is the way to go, none of the social issues to cloud up their minds, and plenty of time to learn in different methods than Texas Schools are forced to use.

The gang issue, I feel like is a moot point, I agree with your ideas about them for the most part, but I feel like it makes no difference at all when it comes down to it... Let's say they aren't gangsters, the stupid things they are doing are just as bad as if they were. I think that people who act this way, gangster life or not, need to face the punishment, and I'm sure that our system will do it's part. Some folks become career criminals, while others spend a good deal of time messing up before they change... You never can tell which one is which, I've tried.

People thought that I would be a career screwup, I'm not sure where they are now, but if they saw me, I'm sure it would shock them. Many of the readers on Live who talk about hating these gangster's, and meth head's, and low-life's, are the same folks who look at me like I'm a menace to society while I'm simply going to the store with my family. I don't even dress like a "G" any more. I'm the cat in Wal-Mart with the tattooed neck and hands, the guy that you think is up to no good... All I want is to avoid trouble and be a good man for my family.

I don't spend my time worrying about others opinion of me, but it does bother me that so many folks judge the tattooed guy here on Live, saying that we're just "thugs and slugs" and so forth... All I want to do is live, I guess if I had to shoot someone to defend my wife and kids from a car-jacking, they would be calling me the same in the media just for my looks and a past that is over 10 years clean now.

So if they're not gangbangers, then all is well in your book and this is just an isolated incident? Nothing to see here, move along now? When it comes down to it, you may have a run in with some kids like this in our city... Who will you be calling to hold accountable for them on that day? Or have you prepared to deal with the realities? I suppose if someone comes to carjack you, you will first want to have them pause, so you can call the parties responsible for keeping these kind of characters from posing a threat to society?

Might be time to re-evaluate what's most important. Newsflash! Their are gangsters in San Angelo, sorry if you didn't receive the memo. Part of the job of those in the field of civil service is to keep the public at ease as well... If you do your job, and they do theirs, what is the big issue?