What do you think the proper punishment should be? Fine, jail, community service?

At my old job, and guy left his kid in the car "by accident". It was mid summer and the kid was dead by 10am. The kicker is, the same guy did the same thing a week before. I know this because I heard the kid crying on my walk into work and told the father. He acted like I was kidding at first, then ran out to his vehicle to drop the child off a daycare. Does anyone want to guess how much time he had to spend in prison for killing his own child?

Proverbs you have got to be kidding! First off who are you to judge the Father? Why do you feel that the father failed? The son failed himself! He is old enough to be responsible for his own actions.
Then you sound like a complete fool talking about your gun and what you would do! Amazing! Your exactly the kind of person who gives ammunition to all the anti gun people! You would actually shoot at someone with the possibility of killing any of the 3 on board? Dude...you need to chill a bit!

PEEJTRAV32 - Your kids ARE scared. As a therapist, please take my advice and try to talk to them. Try to relate to them, explain that you were afraid too, this will help them to open up and talk about it. (I know it's hard to say that, you never want the kids to know their dad isn't really fearless, but they also witnessed how you took action to protect them despite what you may have been feeling yourself - THAT IS COURAGE!) Give them lots of empathy and let them know you understand that it was probably really scary, but you will always be there to protect them as you already have, and that you are not disappointed that they won't go to the lake with you anymore. Just keep offering to take them, reassure them that you are safe (if you didn't already consider this, they may be scared for you when you go without them, that they may lose you) and that if they go to the lake with you, they can be in control; for example, if they want to stay close to shore that's ok, if they get afraid and want to leave as soon as you get there, that's ok too. Be patient, and don't get upset or push them. You may have to sacrifice going to some of the better fishing spots in order to get your kids back on the water again. Eventually they will regain their trust of the water and that is what is important. I'd hate for your kids to miss out on all the fun that can be had on the water because somebody else was so irresponsible!

Godspeed friend.

PROVERBS...CHANGE YOUR NAME ON HERE, IT IS GIVING PEOPLE THE IDEA YOU ARE A CHRISTIAN, WHERE YOU ARE CLEARLY NOT!

srohde


As a high school teacher for the past 19 years, I can agree with your teachers when they say students have changed.

Many are not held accountable for their actions at home, so they don't feel that they should be held accountable anywhere else.

Manners and respect seem to have all but gone out the window as well.

These little turds were not "freaked" out about possibly having hurt someone or damaged someone elses boat. The driver was freaked out that he damaged his daddy's boat. The Father needs to pray for himself and his son because he failed his son and his son failed his father.

Maybe next time I'm in a boat I'll reconsider packing my Sig Sauer 9mm plus two 20 round clips for a grand total of 56 rounds of Cor-Bon 9mm hollow points. Because if some wacko came at me and my kids I'd only be thinking about my kids and I'd have opened up! Personally I think people in a situation like that should be let completely off for letting a few go downrange but with the way things are today I'd have gone to prison. Even Christians believe in self defense. Especially defense of family.

I promise you can see what's in front of the boat while surfing. A properly weighted boat for surfing will not impair driver vision.