Ok Let me try to make myself understood. Hi John. I’m sorry for not prefacing my remarks by pointing out that Oxnard is obviously awash in idiot lawyers. I survived 12 years of Catholic School and 26years in the FDNY. Uniforms are good! Levels the playing field! The unifrom doesn’t make the man look good. The man or woman inside make the uniform look great! For the inquiring minds who want to know, I went unmolested the whole time they were trying to poison my mind. It wasn’t for want of trying on my part though. Especially in high school. If some of those handsome young brothers knew what I wanted to do to their bodies (and weren’t interested)I would have been beaten to a pulp everyday in homeroom. But I digress. I was talking about a gun in a school. Did Oxnard learn nothing from Colombine? Maybe all the school people are failed lawyers! See Amy’s post. Hi Amy. much as we might like to have Heros, getting shot in the head doesn’ make u one automaticly. Larry might have been all we’d like him to be and everything he said about his father might be true. Or not! Remember a while back when that kid said his father beat him with a baseball bat for being gay. Everybody jumped on that bandwagon only to wind up with egg on their faces and very few Mea Culpas. Maybe the home was one of those, do your own thing, be whatever you are, type of places without the vital piece of info that their are always conseqences to our actions, so its wise to chose them carefully! Maybe not. Maybe Larry did himself up after leaving the home but before arriving at the school. Maybe Larry was an annoying, persistant drag queen in the making(you know the nails on the blackboard kind!) Maybe not. It doesn’t matter. He didn’t deserve to be shot. (Because we do know he wasn’t a TV evangelist or a pedophile priest. As opposed to a pedarest priest- see my remarks above!). Ron HI, interesting speculation. I wonder if that’s where he got the gun from, good old Dad? By the way I didn’t learn it at home. My father died when I was 3 weeks old and my mother was a rebel in a quiet riot sort of way. She wouldn’t burn the church down, but if she knew it was burning she wouldn’t turn in the alarm and tell anyone who said they smelled smoke that they were getting an early start on the barbacue for the church picnic! And smile like an idiot while she did it. Better to be thought a simpleton than an enemy of the state/church. Its an Irish thing. Worked on the Brits & the Church for years! Kathie hi. Charlton would have been proud of you. Not because he was head of the NRA, but because your right! There’s plenty of blame to go around here, but what I said earlier about actions is also true about battles. Pick them carefuly if you can. Don’t spin your wheels tilting at windmills! As I pointed out in an earlier post some years back a mother(I think?)sued some grand wizard religious demegogue in a red kkk dress (remind u of any gay hating birds?)whose followers had killed her son. She got everything, total destroyed that klan organization and him! BTW Larry’s mom pulled the plug on him so I think even in LALA land the courts would say she has the right to sue anyone she damn well pleases for wrongful death. No mother should have to make that decision!