12-Year-Old Robs Lemonade Stand At BB Gunpoint; NRA Silent So We'll Assume He Is White
Here's a data point for anyone working on their dissertation about the lemonade stand as symbolic avatar for American Capitalism.* Never mind Fox News fantasies about Barack Obama trying to destroy young entrepreneurs, now the kids need to worry about getting robbed at gunpoint. A BB gun, but still. TPM reports that a 12-year-old boy will be charged in juvenile court after using a BB gun to rob a 10-year-old's lemonade stand:
Authorities in Johnstown, Pa. said that the boy used what what was ostensibly a handgun in his pocket to threaten the 10-year-old boy who was running the stand. A scuffle ensued between the two boys before the 12-year-old made out with $30.
Never mind the implications about yoots and violent crime. We are more concerned about how the kid "made out with" the stolen cash, which seems like a risk factor for a career in corporate takeovers.
*This notion is contested -- and rightly so -- by Slate's Michal Lemberger, we should add. Something something public radio.
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When I was a kid....the crime rate in America was actually much, much higher.
Suck it, reactionaries and everyone's nostalgic grandparents.
Come on, you just know that RW pundits are licking their chops over this one.
"Robbing a small business? Why, that kid has a bright future in government!"
"He robbed a small business? Who does he think he is, [choose one] Obama/Pelosi/Reid/Obamacare/a Liebrul/a government bureaucrat...?"