I was checking my email this morning, and suddenly on the news stream I see a small blurb..."Mo. teen accused of paying hit men $260 in failed plot to kill adoptive parents." That just hit me; the only thing that crossed my mind was "Why?" Why would you try to hire someone out to kill your parents? This isn't just you're angry, pick up a gun and -bang- (as many murders are)...this is definately premediated. Any killing whatsoever is just completely pointless, in my opinion, but when you take the time and effort to find and hire so-called "hit men," that is despicable. Especially because the guy "thought they were too strict and wanted to inherit money." Sure, we all fight with our parents. We all think they're way too strict at times. We all sometimes want just to leave, to get away. And everyone, always, wants more money. But to want to kill them? Especially for caring about you? Because that is what that is, being strict--it's caring enough about you to try to give you responsibility and do the best for yourself, and not wanting you to do anything stupid or get hurt. Sure, all parents are overbearing at times; but no one is perfect.
It seems to me that no matter which way you look at it, there is something wrong with our society. Not everyone is like this, thank goodness. Not even most people are like this. But there are people out there. We can't stop them until they do something bad. And that just makes me a little scared.
In the end, this was disturbing and depressing. His parents must be thinking "where did we go wrong," and be will probably be blaming themselves for his actions, blaming something they did. But, we can't change someone that much. Really, being strict won't suddenly make a teen go on a killing rampage, unless there was that unconscious part of them to begin with. We might throw things against a wall, yell, scream, cry, leave...but kill? I don't know about you, but I would not be able to do that.
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Yeah, going through all that trouble to kill his parents definitely qualifies as premeditation. You'd think though, that the fact that he was adopted by these people should have said something about the parents character.
Then again, we don't really know what was going on. Perhaps these people were abusive? Not all adoptive parents are angels.
Send him over to some of the poorest areas of a third world country for an entire month. Then, perhaps he'll appreciate the heck out of his adoptive parents. Why doesn't someone do a reality show on that????????
that's a good idea! i don't usually watch reality shows, but if it would fix some people, someone should do it.~
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it is sad to realize what some of the people in our country capable of. it's scary, too. the next time it could happen to someone we know. it's just unnerving.
of course, we don't know what was going on in the home, but from what you said his reasons were, too strict and money, it doesn't sound to me like there was really anything happening that might have caused him to go to these lengths.
it's just awful to see these sorts of things on the news, day after day.~
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In some cases kids kill (or try to kill) their parents to escape abuse.