Gub for the day

Josh Voorhees has a Slate article about a dumb kid with really dumb parents:

From the sounds of it, this week's— let alone this year's— painfully long list of school tragedies nearly grew by one recently. Here's NBC News with the details of a close call in Washington:

An eleven-year-old Washington state boy was arrested after bringing four hundred rounds of ammunition, several knives, and a handgun to school on Wednesday, police said.
Frontier Middle School, in Vancouver, Washington was locked down for about two hours after ammunition was found at around 9:20 am local time . The student was interviewed by detectives and later arrested on a count of attempted murder, police said. No injuries were reported. The boy was booked into Clark County Juvenile Detention Center later in the day.

Roughly nine hundred students attend the middle school, and another six hundred attend the elementary school that sits adjacent to it. It's unclear whether the weapons and ammunition were found on the boy's person, or if police simply found evidence linking them to the student. Regardless, the incident is the latest to have schools and parents on edge around the country this week. It occurred one day after a fourteen-year-old boy allegedly killed a teacher in a Massachusetts high school before dragging her body into the woods behind the school, and two days after a twelve-year-old boy in Nevada gunned down a teacher on school grounds before killing himself.

Rico says he wonders WTF is going on these days. (And four hundred rounds of ammo is eight boxes; that's a heavy backpack for an eleven-year-old...)