Just watching Fox News and a reporter asked Camden County Prosecutor Vincent Sarubbi if he agreed with an uncle of one of the teens that this was a “cry for help”. Sarubbi was smart enough to decline comment because his job at this point is to put together a case against these kids. He also didn’t know that at the time he was being asked this question, on one side of the screen Fox News was panning a camera across the weaponry these kids had on them when they were stopped by police after an attempted car-jacking. It was quite impressive by dint of size, although obviously scrabbled together by petty theft. Some long rifles, shotguns, revolvers, hunting knives, boxes of ammo, and a sword (cutlass?) - but nothing semi-automatic as far as I could tell. And it sure as hell wasn’t a “cry for help”.

OD’ing on mom’s valium? A cry for help. Ramming one’s car into a tree? A cry for help. Holding a gun to one’s own head? A cry for help.

Having more ammo than the defenders of the Alamo? NOT a cry for help.

For those of you who missed the American punk scene in the late 1970s and early ’80s - the pre-MTV era - there was a punk band known as Oingo Boingo fronted by Danny Elfman. Elfman has gone on to a lucrative career writing music for movies: Beetlejuice and the Batman series leaps to mind. One of their songs was “Only a Lad” that showed the stupidity of liberals who attempted to blame everyone BUT the criminal. Here’s some of the song taken via this link.

His parents gave up they couldn`t influence his attitude
Nobody could help
The little man had no gratitude

And when he stole the care
Nobody dreamed that he would
Try to take it so far
He didn`t mean to hit the poor man
Who had to go and die
It made the judge cry

Only a lad
He really couldn`t help it
Only a lad
He didn`t want to do it
Only a lad
He`s underprivileged and abused
Perhaps a little bit confused

It`s not his fault that he can`t believe
It`s not his fault that he can`t behave
Society made him go astray
Perhaps if we`re nice he`ll go away
Perhaps he`ll go away
He`ll go away link

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