That’ll Teach ‘Em

Tampa Florida mother, Julie Schenecker, has admitted to police that she shot and killed her two teenagers “because they were mouthy.” 

I’m sure just about every parent has been pushed almost to that point at one time or another.  After all, driving one’s parents to distraction is part of the very definition of being a teenager.

BUT, if every parent shot every smart-assed kid out there, we would lose an entire generation. 

The very existence of the Human Race would be in peril.

Maybe, like abortion prior to Roe v Wade, we could make exterminating your offspring  legal in just a couple of states.  Then truly desperate moms could haul their little monsters to - Oh, let’s say Oregon, or maybe Iowa, for example - and blow the little bastards away.

Actually, it makes more sense than abortion.  You never know how a fetus will turn out, but you already know these kids are a disaster.  If Mom has the right to kill a fetus, she ought to have just as much right to kill them a few years later when snuffing them out  is based on a better-informed decision.

It probably wouldn’t work. 

The state  law extending late-term abortion to include intractable teenagers  would undoubtedly require a waiting period to establish residency –  Mom would cool down or (less likely, but possible) the kid might actually straighten up.  Then you’ve quit your job and burned all that gas for nothing. 

Your only choice would be to go back home and hope you can get your job back, or hang around that sleazy hotel room until the kid mouths off again.