That's a damn cowardly act though. Going after an old man from behind while you're wearing pads. I can't fathom a human being that shitty, and have any particular argument on hand as to why they shouldn't be shot, other than it being illegal.
How about that they are far down the list of people that need to be shot, considering all the other people out there doing worse things.
I'll give one of them a break for sure since he is a sophomore and probably only 15 years old.
I agree with that.
Because one of them anyway is a kid. Kids make stupid mistakes all the time.
Bullshit. Kids rarely assault anyone. When they do they're criminals.
Correct.
Not sure what highschool you went to, but kids got in fights all the time. That's assault.
First of all. I rarely saw kids get into fights in High School and I went to Abilene High (which was a 5A school with a serious football presence and would definitely be called the lower class HS of Abilene) and Hondo High School (which was 3A and part of a rural community, but still a football town). So there's that. Second this isn't a fight. It was a cowardly and unprovoked attack by two man-sized teenagers in pads on an unsuspecting victim.
It was a cowardly act by a child. No question about it. But I went to one of the nicer highschools in Iowa and I can remember a lot of fights. And not just fights where the two guys are facing each other and know what's going to happen. But fights that started with one guy unexpectedly slugging another. It happens with kids who don't have the same impulse controls that adults do. Not trying to make an excuse for the 14 or 15 year old kid but you're pretty amped up in the middle of a football game. I just don't see the point in treating the incident like the kid took a baseball bat to the back of someone's head. That's why the courts have a juvenile court system.
Well a baseball bat to the head is attempted murder. I don't think that that, or even battery charges apply here. But it's absolutely assault. And this boys will be boys shit is a tired excuse. It wasn't even just a sucker punch, although those can cause TBIs too I'm sure. Even a sucker punch like the one Patmon gave to Dez this summer was provoked. That's way different from two athletes who are NOT children ganging up on someone who had not provoked the physically.
Yep, and that the one of them that got to stay in the game kept taking cheap shots at players even going so far as hitting the opposing QB when he took a knee to run out the clock shows it wasn't just a one time occurence
