Kids these days: 13-year-old trades gun for friend’s PSP in school
When I was a 13-year-old, I remember trading lunches with my classmates in middle school. These days, kids seem to be a bit more… extreme? Well, the PSP wasn’t invented back then when I was in middle school, and I definitely wouldn’t know what the going rate for a PSP would have been in terms of lunches. For a student in Tacoma, Washington, though, the going rate for a PSP schoolyard trade-in – at least these days – is equivalent to his father’s handgun.
“So mistah officah. How many PSPs will this get me if I traded it in?”
When I was a 13-year-old, I remember trading lunches with my classmates in middle school. These days, kids seem to be a bit more… extreme? Well, the PSP wasn’t invented back then when I was in middle school, and I definitely wouldn’t know what the going rate for a PSP would have been in terms of lunches.
For a student in Tacoma, Washington, though, the going rate for a PSP schoolyard trade-in – at least these days – is equivalent to his father’s handgun.
Last Wednesday, Mason Middle School was under lockdown after a 13-year-old was seen carrying a gun in campus. The gun was immediately confiscated by the school officials, as were the ammunition the boy was also carrying with him. No one was hurt. The kid is in juvenile detention and faces expulsion from the school.
Upon questioning, it was found out that the kid took the gun from his father’s collection so that he could trade it in for his friend’s PSP. (A pretty bad trade if you asked me – guns are damned expensive, but that’s obviously not the point here.)
More so, the father revealed that a second gun was also missing from his collection. Speculation arose that this other gun could still be in the school, which then prompted officials to issue a lockdown on the campus.
No follow ups on this report have been made so far. You can check out the video report through the Via link below.
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