The dead girl was named Kyra. That's not a popular name among humans. Mom attempting to drive her to the hospital instead of calling an ambulance for such a serious injury is also a clue.
Depending on where you live or the type of injury, driving to the hospital can be the smarter choice. If you have a massive internal hemorrhage, there's little to nothing an EMT can do, so all the time they took to get to you is just wasted minutes when seconds matter. The only thing that can help you at that point is getting into an OR as quickly as possible. If you can drive there faster, then it's the smart choice.
Average time in the US for ambulance arrival is eight minutes. This girl probably got hit in a major abdominal artery, which means she had maybe ten minutes before she was dead. The only chance she had would have been for the mother to open her up and clamp the artery, which was pretty obviously not going to happen.
Sure but when your kid is dying, I don't think you ought care too much about the price in those precious minutes. Like I said, they aren't going to say "No, you too poor, we won't take her."
80% can be bought without a FFL. The real question is how a 13 year-old could even buy stuff online. Assuming this story is true, it's a parenting problem.
Which means that the kid had the access and knowledge to convert an 80% lower. This requires a bit more than just assembly, you have to size the jig and drill through metal. How a 13 year old procured all of this without his parents catching on would be astounding.
Always worried about guns, when you can kill yourself with a hammer, a nail, a tube, and a bullet. Perhaps, IDK, people should keep their ammo away from kids.
There's a hell of a lot more questions to this story than what the news outlets are reporting.
How did a 13-year-old buy the parts on the Internet? Unless he's flipping cash onto burner Visa cards, there's no way he's doing that without swiping a credit card from his mom.
How is a 13-year-old milling the lowers out? Even if he's buying plastic ones, you still have to mount the thing in a jig and cut it down. That's not something you can do with a power drill and an X-acto knife in the kitchen while your mom is out with Tyrone, turning tricks on the corner.
Same things go for assembly and finishing. No way in hell is a 13-year-old kid buying parts and having them shipped to somewhere, then finishing them into an actual, serviceable weapon, without his parents knowing something was going on. If they didn't know, they're ignorant and if they did know, negligent.
Regardless of how Kyra was shot, this whole thing stinks on ice. There's a whole chunk of investigation they're leaving out, and you know that this is going to be used as a wedge to try and drive new anti-gun legislation to prevent the sale of parts to private purchasers.
Valid point. Like someone else mentioned in the post, it's more likely that the parents were the ones doing the building and they're pinning it on the kid to avoid other charges.
No way the kid was having parts shipped to the house, building the guns in the house, and selling them from the house without whoever the adults in the house were knowing.
They were using the 13 year old as an income source.
I’ll let you guess why they didn’t mention the race in there
The dead girl was named Kyra. That's not a popular name among humans. Mom attempting to drive her to the hospital instead of calling an ambulance for such a serious injury is also a clue.
Depending on where you live or the type of injury, driving to the hospital can be the smarter choice. If you have a massive internal hemorrhage, there's little to nothing an EMT can do, so all the time they took to get to you is just wasted minutes when seconds matter. The only thing that can help you at that point is getting into an OR as quickly as possible. If you can drive there faster, then it's the smart choice.
Average time in the US for ambulance arrival is eight minutes. This girl probably got hit in a major abdominal artery, which means she had maybe ten minutes before she was dead. The only chance she had would have been for the mother to open her up and clamp the artery, which was pretty obviously not going to happen.
Getting an ambulance costs the average person about $1K a pop in a lot of places in the US
Sorry Mr Moneybags that we can't all afford that.
It's not like they roll up and demand your debit card before they load your dying child aboard.
They have to charge you my guy. Healthcare is expensive.
Sure but when your kid is dying, I don't think you ought care too much about the price in those precious minutes. Like I said, they aren't going to say "No, you too poor, we won't take her."
It’s easier said than done my friend. People less fortunate don’t have the luxury to just “think about it later.”
It would be the easiest decision of my life. I'd gladly bankrupt myself for life for a +1% chance to save my child's life.
The claim is a 13 year old was somehow able to buy lowers online without having to go through an ffl dealer, which is highly doubtful.
80% can be bought without a FFL. The real question is how a 13 year-old could even buy stuff online. Assuming this story is true, it's a parenting problem.
Which means that the kid had the access and knowledge to convert an 80% lower. This requires a bit more than just assembly, you have to size the jig and drill through metal. How a 13 year old procured all of this without his parents catching on would be astounding.
Yeah, there is more to this story.
Always worried about guns, when you can kill yourself with a hammer, a nail, a tube, and a bullet. Perhaps, IDK, people should keep their ammo away from kids.
Yea, I came to that conclusion a few years back. Pathetic
For what it's worth the news site linked in the article has a picture. Makes the confirmation of the guesswork pretty easy.
There's a hell of a lot more questions to this story than what the news outlets are reporting.
How did a 13-year-old buy the parts on the Internet? Unless he's flipping cash onto burner Visa cards, there's no way he's doing that without swiping a credit card from his mom.
How is a 13-year-old milling the lowers out? Even if he's buying plastic ones, you still have to mount the thing in a jig and cut it down. That's not something you can do with a power drill and an X-acto knife in the kitchen while your mom is out with Tyrone, turning tricks on the corner.
Same things go for assembly and finishing. No way in hell is a 13-year-old kid buying parts and having them shipped to somewhere, then finishing them into an actual, serviceable weapon, without his parents knowing something was going on. If they didn't know, they're ignorant and if they did know, negligent.
Regardless of how Kyra was shot, this whole thing stinks on ice. There's a whole chunk of investigation they're leaving out, and you know that this is going to be used as a wedge to try and drive new anti-gun legislation to prevent the sale of parts to private purchasers.
negligentcomplicitValid point. Like someone else mentioned in the post, it's more likely that the parents were the ones doing the building and they're pinning it on the kid to avoid other charges.
No way the kid was having parts shipped to the house, building the guns in the house, and selling them from the house without whoever the adults in the house were knowing.
They were using the 13 year old as an income source.
That’s about where I’m at with it, gang front using kid as lesser charge.
What is the race or it didn't happen!
this glows.
Not this one. Not everything is a glowie OR MK Ultra.