Comments on: Larry King’s family blames school for murder

By: gay boy

gay boy — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 09:11:52 +0000

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By: jack in phx

jack in phx — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 02:57:55 +0000

when hss puttting values into a child’s mind been turned over to a school? gee i always thought when you decided to pop a baby out you were responsable for it’s up bringing. if he was taught at home shooting or taking another life was wrong , maybe then he may not be up for murder. i myself am sick of parents blamming every one else instead of themselves for the way they’re children turned out. it all starts at home !!!!!

it’s about time parents take responsibility of they’re actions when it comes to they’re children. i am sure they are as homophobic as this kid.

“if you can’t do the time ,don’t do the crime”

this kid needs a long time , and the max to let him think about what he did.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:44:02 +0000

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!

By: Ron

Ron — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:21:26 +0000

The following synopsis is just speculation, but would not surprise me if it were true:
BRANDON: “Dad, there’s a queer at school who wears girls clothes and other kids says he “likes” me, what should I do?”
DAD: “Some faggoty little queer likes my son!!! (slap) I won’t have it!!! (slap) YOU need to do something about it.”

I’m sure Brandon learned this hatred at home. It’s where ALL OF US learn.

By: Amy

Amy — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:53:13 +0000

I don’t get it….if the parents (as it seems from the limited info we have)are just trying to cash in on this horrible tragedy and they want to sue the school on the grounds that they didn’t protect Larry, WHY wouldn’t the complaint be about not stopping a student from carrying a lethal weapon into the school rather than not stopping their son from dressing how he wanted to dress? Which was the more direct danger I ask you? It makes me sick that this poor child’s death–a child, I might add, who was brave enough to stand up and be who he was at the young age of 15– is being used to push the parents’ and lawyers’ homophobic agenda. The world will not be made safer by making gay kids stay in the closet, it will be made safer by educating people and promoting acceptance of difference. Has anyone bothered to ask why the kid that did the shooting had so much anger and hatred that it drove him to murder? Who taught him that? THAT is why Larry got killed–because of anger and hatred. Not because the kid was being himself.

By: Kathie

Kathie — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 01:03:10 +0000

Tell me you are kidding! It is not the schools fault that one student killed another. It was the student himself. If you get shot by a gun do you blame the shooter or the gun? This is a blatant attempt to get money. Larry didn’t even live with his parents. Come on now.

By: Nikki

Nikki — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 22:46:10 +0000

This is so sad. I do not totally agree that the kid Brandon McInerney should not serve some sort of harsh sentence. We have made many examples in the court system that hate crimes are not acceptable but letting the kid off is saying that we don’t value King for being confident to be who he really was. Growing up in my HS Brandon McInerney was the norm. But at the same school now many years later there is no tolerance for that same behavior and King would have been allowed to dress as he felt.

By: J.Jay

J.Jay — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 21:10:25 +0000

Hi Anthony : I agree with you about punishment for the shooter.///But apparently Larry King wasn’t living with the parents at the time. He was in a ..foster home (?) or something. King claimed his father was abusing him, which the father denies.

By: John Moll

John Moll — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 18:20:10 +0000

Hey Charlie, now you pay attention: if Larry’s parents sue on the grounds the school should have prevented Larry from dressing in feminine clothing and win – which is highly unlikely – then this ruling could have a chilling effect all across California, and schools would then be compelled to enforce gender appropriate dress codes. Is this what you want? I surely hope not.

By: anthony

anthony — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 18:19:07 +0000

I don’t believe he deserves to be put in prison for the rest of his life. The boy is barely a teenager and has a lot of growing up to do. Maybe he can change for the better, maybe he can’t. He deserves a chance. What he did was inexcusable and terrible but it doesn’t seem right to ruin another boys life. Also, I can’t see how the parents are blaming the school for not enforcing the dress code….. I think they should take partial blame for allowing there son to go to school in female attire.