John Montgomery Presents This Week's	March 4, 2000	Creep Logo by Alan Fraser
	Jamelle James
	Big Guns, Little Corpses

Do you ever get nostalgic for that bygone, innocent era when a kid had to be at least 11 years old to shoot one of his classmates dead in school? Ah, the good old days! It was a rite of passage to buy bullet proof vests for your children as sixth grade graduation presents. The height chart behind those police lineups didn't go below four feet. The worst thing that could happen to you in first grade was to pee your pants and make a smelly, yellow puddle on the floor for everyone else to laugh at.

Well, park your nostalgia at the elementary school door, for those days are gone forever. We set a new record this week for schoolhouse killings; one that will be hard to beat. A six-year-old boy in Mount Morris Township, Michigan, brought a loaded .32-caliber semiautomatic pistol into his first grade classroom and blasted a hole in the chest of a six-year-old girl, Kayla Rolland. Kayla died shortly afterward. The little gunslinger, whose name we still don't know, ran into the bathroom and dropped the gun into the garbage can.

How do you handle a situation like that? Better start by getting the kid's father to come down and tell us where that gun came from. Umm, no, not this time. Dad's in jail. Dedric Owens, 29, is doing time on a parole violation for some 1995 drug and burglary charges. OK, what about Mom? No, that won't work either. Tamarla Owens is a drug addict who admits to exposing her children to marijuana on a daily basis, and who just got evicted from her home. Tamarla and the kids were staying with her brother, Sir Marcus B. Winfrey. We don't know who designated Marcus as "Sir", but we do know that he was wanted by the cops because they arrested him on an outstanding warrant for theft after finding a stolen 12-gauge shotgun and drugs at his place. The "place" in question was described by the prosecutor as a "flop house", and by Father Dedric as a "crack house."

But where did the gun come from? How did a six-year-old boy get a semiautomatic handgun and sneak it into school? Somebody must have been responsible.

Meet Mr. Responsibility, Jamelle James, 19, another resident of the house, who kept the loaded, stolen gun under some blankets in a bedroom, twirled it around in front of the boy, and created "an atmosphere of reckless circumstances," according to the prosecutor. Jamelle is charged with involuntary manslaughter, which could get him 15 years in the slammer.

Involuntary manslaughter? Not enough. Charge him with Murder One. Not "negligence", not "contributing to the delinquency of a minor," and not "being a drugged-out derelict who doesn't have any business being within five miles of a child." Murder. Take Jamelle and all those other degenerates who keep guns lying around the house when kids are around, and strap their sorry butts into the closest electric chair. Fry 'em. Then print their pictures in the next NRA newsletter, along with a message for those macho morons who oppose child safety locks and every other form of gun control because they need guns as a substitute for their withered, shriveled, dead-from-lack-of-use dicks:

If your kid uses your gun to commit a crime, you get the penalty. You go to jail. You pay the fine. Your ass is in the sling when the civil suit lawyer comes around looking to take everything you own plus a dollar. And after that, we're going to give your gun to a six-year-old who will march right up to you and blow your knee cap off.

And what do we do with the six-year-old killing bastard himself? He's not the kind of boy you want in your cub scout pack. He'd already been suspended from school for fighting and stabbing another kid with a pencil. He evidently had some playground argument with Kayla the day before the shooting and wanted to scare her. When his father asked him why he fought with other children, he said because "he hated them." What's the appropriate penalty? How about we make him write a thousand times on the blackboard, "I will not hang around with narrow-minded, irresponsible, self-centered adults."

You can bet that somewhere, there's a five-year-old kindergartner who's determined to break the record.