Please Don’t Shoot Me For (Accidentally) Stepping On Your Toe
Written by: Tom Sawyer
Today I’m thinking our society just keeps coming up with new examples to show that morally we are on a downhill course. What are we going to do – what can we do to instill some values in the generations to come? If we could return to some common courtesies that would be great, but that seems far too difficult for some to grasp.
Have you ever heard of someone stepping on another person’s shoe and it causing a dispute? I’ve heard of people losing their life for something as small as this. Back in the good old days a simple “Excuse me” would be good enough to forget/forgive about something like this, but now it seems as if stepping on someone’s toe is a capital offense. The whole thing is stupid because who would do this on purpose?
I used to live in a popular west coast city and one night I was out at a club when an incident similar to this occurred. A young lady I was talking too was bumped into by a guy. Notice I said he bumped into her. Anyway, the guy got very upset and was blaming the young lady for this. Well, I came to find out this guy was a pimp and he thought he was above this happening to him. I’m not saying he was a guy who was a lady’s man or anything like this – he was a pimp for real. Can you believe he caused the action but thought it was her fault? This guy must have had some serious juice because they told the young lady it would be best if she left the club instead of telling him to leave.
Remember when a simple punch would solve most problems? I’m not advocating violence, but some people quickly take things to the next level. Forget about normal fist fights because that seems to be a thing of the past and I can kind of understand why. Why fight someone and possibly win when their next move will likely be to go get a gun? That is exactly was a 4-year-old in Jackson Ohio did when his baby sitter stepped on his toe. Did I mention the child was 4 and the baby sitter stepped on his toe accidentally? Amazing.
I don’t know about you, but I would rather not be involved in any gun play for accidentally stepping on someone’s toe. That just doesn’t seem like a way I possibly want to leave this earth and besides, it is downright stupid.
Tags: 4-year-old shooting baby sitter, downhill moral course, jackson ohio shooting, stepping on your toe
January 8th, 2009 at 8:10 am
I remember the good ole day. Back in my first year of public schooling (7th grade) I was walking down the hall with some piping hot nachos I couldn’t wait to dive into. As I was walking and about to take my first bite some guy walks right into me forcing me to drop my nachos. It wasn’t a fair fight, he punched me before I could get my backpack off but the moral of the story is there was no guns, just fists, a broken nose(me) and a missing front tooth (him).
In regards to your story, this is a perfect example of IGNORANT a** parents. My wife and I have a gun right next to the bed (Glock 9mm) but I can tell you with the utmost certainty that the minute we’re no longer alone and have kids it will be locked and unreachable for the kids. The parents are obviously to blame here. If I was the parents of the baby sitter I’d unleash legal hell.
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January 8th, 2009 at 8:34 am
Tom, morals are the one thing that seems to be consistently fading from our screwed up society and violence is taking over! If they piss you off, shoot ‘em! If they divorce you, shoot ‘em! If the baby cries too much, shake ‘em to death, hide them in the woods, and then don’t report it! My, my, my! How do, what appears to be normal people, turn into the monster they do? We live in a very “do as you want/express yourself” world. Unfortunately, that mentality tips the scale toward deranged these days. I remember my cousin telling me she was sitting at a stop light in Dayton, OH and she just kind of nonchalantly turned and looked in the car beside her only to find herself looking down the barrel of a gun! Are you serious!!! Needless to say, she looks straight ahead when sitting at stop lights these days!
Regarding the 4 year old, what’s so sad is two things: the youngster knew exactly where to go to get the gun and the youngster is obviously headed into a life of anger and violence for him to become this upset over getting his toe stepped on! What in the world I ask are the parents teaching him? How is he seeing people interact in front of him? Lastly, why on earth was the gun within the reach of a 4 year old?
When I first heard about this story I was told that the parents are being charged with aggravated assault (I think that is the charge). This is probably a question for a whole other post but here is my question, at what age is the child responsible for his or hers action? I guess at 4 years old the parents have to stand accountable, but this four year old, apparently old beyond his years should get the beating of his life (oh settle down all those of you against spankings, he shot somebody!!!), time out for about six months, no play dates until the third grade, and definitely no cowboys and Indians movies!!
I think he needs to be triple teamed: Supernanny for his bad behavior, Dr. Phil for the obvious psychological issues, and TD Jakes to pray him through. I’d love to see where this child ends up in 14 years! I have made a few jokes here, but it is really sad. I’ve never heard of anything like it!
January 8th, 2009 at 9:45 am
OMG! I think there was more going on here. How did the kid know where to find a gun and how to use it? I think he has psych problems and a very dysfunctional home. It might help if our media didn’t sensationalize all this horrible behavior.
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January 8th, 2009 at 2:54 pm
How in the world is a 4 year old able to actually use a gun? What kind was it? I’m guessing it was loaded with one in the chamber and he could read the word safety and knew that he had to switch the lever to make it work? I’m shocked and impressed at the same time, I just can’t wrap my mind around how a 4 year old is actually able to operate a hand gun when i know some adults who don’t have a clue or the strength to even operate one. Don’t even get me started on aiming….
January 8th, 2009 at 3:12 pm
One of the articles I read said they removed “pellets” from the babysitter. And in the chaos of it, the little tyke shot another adult too! Both were fine but both had to have “pellets” removed. Shoot, I call them bullets!
January 8th, 2009 at 3:18 pm
Two types of weapons use pellets, a bb/pellet gun and shot guns, you can also buy snake or rat shot about the size of a .22 caliber bullet.
January 8th, 2009 at 3:30 pm
interesting.
June 23rd, 2010 at 11:06 am
I’ll be back. Good stuff! Thanks for posting!