When a stolen gun is pointed by a teenager to the head of a person going in to Denny’s on Ridge Road at 3am, it’s got to put a few questions in your head. What are these kids (well, I say kids- they ranged in age from 17-19) doing out so late in the first place? How’d they get a gun, and what possessed them to bring it to Denny’s? Why instigate something and pull the gun out? Of course that can all be rolled up into one question – what the heck are these people thinking?? And, is anyone else responsible for these actions besides the people performing them?
I say no, people are responsible for their own actions. However, parents do have a responsibility to their children to not just keep an eye on them, but teach them right and wrong and the consequence of actions. If they don’t, the consequence both on and from society can be pretty big. From what I see on Channel 13′s website, the four perpetrators are not Greece residents, not that that makes any of it any better.