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...little Arkansas shooters were not entirely different from the dysfunctional brat in the park in Washington (me) who nearly killed the boy with yellow teeth. But some things were different in Jonesboro...
...tough talk that Jackie Golden fears travels fast in an area like Jonesboro, Ark. The voice at the Waffle House just off Highway 63 in nearby Bono is typical. An elderly man sips coffee at the counter and snaps, "I don't care how old they are; if they kill somebody, they ought to die. I don't care if they're five years old. The Bible says an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. They need to change...
...Arkansas schoolyard deaths have given CAP laws a national push. Partly in response to the Jonesboro shootings, Senator Richard Durbin of Illinois this week will introduce federal CAP legislation. Says Durbin: "It's time for the adults who own the guns to act responsibly, to store them safely and to take responsibility for the guns in their possession...
That will not satisfy Mitchell Wright, whose wife Shannon was killed in Jonesboro. "It doesn't matter to me that these were boys," he says hesitantly. "Their age has nothing to do with the fact that they murdered my wife and four others. Kids do things on the spur of the moment. What these boys did was not a spur of the moment thing." For Wright his wife's death is likely to be a crime without true punishment...
...Jonesboro, the finger-pointing continues. Gretchen Woodard, mother of 13-year-old accused killer Mitchell Johnson, tells TIME this week that her son was not the instigator of the sniper shooting that left four of his classmates and one of his teachers dead. ?Mitch told me he never meant to hurt anybody and he didn?t take specific aim,? Woodard told TIME reporter Sylvester Monroe. ?We don?t need to paint a rosy picture of Mitch. He knew right from wrong...