The Price Of Fear
The police in Suffolk County, New York are still idiots. I knew they were idiots when I lived there, but they haven’t gotten any smarter in the intervening years.
CNN reports: Teens charged in alleged plot to kill students
Suffolk County Police Commissioner Richard Dormer said the journal described shooting students and setting off homemade explosions.
Police said a search warrant was issued for the 15-year-old’s computer, where it was discovered that he’d made numerous attempts and inquires on the Internet to obtain weapons, including an Uzi and five pounds of black powder explosive.
Point one, look in a book, black powder is a flammable material, not an “explosive.” You still need to be an adult to buy it, but it’s for sale at any gun shop upstate due to re-enactors and the black powder hunting season. The fact that they were looking into black powder, instead of the more common smokeless gunpowder, also readily available to adults in the state for reloading, shows their lack of knowledge.
Two kids working at McDonalds will never have the money to buy a legal Uzi, much less an illegal Uzi, which is the status for all Uzis in New York not in the possession of law enforcement agencies.
What you have is a couple of frustrated teenagers ranting and raving, which is pretty much the function in life for teenagers. What they need is an interested adult to sit them down and counsel them. Suggesting that a pipe bomb won’t give them much respect, tell them they need a nuclear weapon to get respect, but first they have to take math, chemistry, and physics to learn how to build a nuclear weapon. They’re going to have to bust their butts and get into college for more math, chemistry, and physics.
For those keeping score at home, the teenagers just scored major points against the establishment. Anyone who works with teenagers knows the establishment has just confirmed to the kids that adults are a bunch of clueless frightened jerks, they also know that the authorities in Riverhead are still idiots.
