Florida, at 11 and 14 years old, robbery of armory: arrested

More news of children and weapons in the United States shocked by the massacre of the primary school in Uvalde. In Florida, police arrested two brothers, aged 14 and 11, who had just robbed a Cape Coral armory and stole 22 guns. When they saw the officers, the two boys got rid of the stolen goods and tried to flee, Cape Coral Police Sergeant Julie Green said. Despite their very young age, the two boys were charged with stealing weapons, ammunition, armed robbery and resisting a public official. The 14-year-old was on probation, having already been convicted of a previous armed robbery. According to reports from the police, the two brothers tried, unsuccessfully, to break the shop’s electricity to break into the back door. Once the alarm system was triggered, the police arrived at the scene within a few minutes. The news of the two gun-stealing children comes the day after the news of the arrest, also in Florida, of a 10-year-old girl who shot and killed a woman who was arguing with her mother. Her little girl, who pulled the gun out of the bag her mother had entrusted to her, now faces a second-degree murder charge. And also in Florida, two days ago, a two-year-old boy killed his father with the gun that the man had left unattended. News like these fuel the debate that has reignited again in the United States on the excessive spread of weapons and the need for laws for greater control, especially to protect minors, after the massacre in the primary school of Uvalde, where they were killed 19 children and two teachers from a boy who bought an assault rifle just after he turned 18. In 2020, for the first time, firearms, not road accidents, were the leading cause of death for under-19s in the United States. Last year 163 people were killed as children in 392 unintentional shootings across the country.