Father of boy who shot friend gets 3 yrs
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Saturday, July 17, 2004 · Last updated 8:28 p.m. PT
Father of boy who shot friend gets 3 years
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CLEARWATER, Fla. -- The father of a boy who shot and killed a playmate with a loaded gun he found stashed under a sofa was sentenced to nearly three years in prison, followed by probation during which he must speak monthly on gun safety.
Louis Mevec Sr. was sentenced Friday for felony culpable negligence in the 2003 death of Sean Caroline II. Mevec, who owned the .357-caliber Magnum used to kill the 12-year-old friend of his son Louis, was convicted last month.
During his father's trial, 14-year-old Louis testified that a small group of Largo Middle School students had skipped school and were playing video games at Mevec's apartment when he pointed the gun at Sean and shot him between the eyes.
"I blame you and only you for my son's death," Sean Caroline, Sean's father, told Louis Mevec Sr. in court Friday. "My wife and I are also serving a sentence ... but we got no trial. Ours is a life sentence."
Circuit Judge Brandt Downey sentenced Mevec, 53, to the maximum six-year prison term, but suspended more than half of it and replaced it with probation. His remaining sentence is 34 months, but with good behavior he could be released by late 2006.
The Caroline family had asked that Mevec be required to speak on gun safety after his release.
The younger Louis Mevec was sent to a juvenile facility and is now living in New York with his mother and younger brother.
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I haven't seen it in forever either, may have to rent it on an old movie spree along with the Breakfast Club...LOL
We're not hunters. Our prime focus is markmanship and home defense, but I thinking hunting also serves an important function. Because of infringement on wildlife in many areas, and the elimination of the natural predators because we've distrubed the natural balance of nature, there is often an overpopulation of some wildlife in areas. This can mean sickliness and starvation because there are no longer, thanks to mankind, natural predators to weed out the weak and control population. I see human hunters as a way of doing that and I've found the hunters I know are very active in protecting wilderness areas for future generations, not just for hunting, for the preservation of all wildlife within these areas. Hunting seasons are controled so that the sports hunters do not deplete the species in an area. They act as population control while gaining the benefit of meat on their tables. While to me, using scopes, laser sites and the like seem to be unfair since the animals don't have such fancy accessories, that's my personal opinion. I don't use scopes or laser sites on my own firearms because for me it detracts from the effort for improvement in marksmanship, on my part. I don't see the act of hunting itself as an "evil" endeavor at all, though.
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ITA! I forgot to include my feelings on this in my other post...
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2004-07-20-malkin_x.htm "
Wow...didn't know they had a name for women like me!
I remember turning on Good Morning America that morning, and watching in shock the footage of the twin towers. Before I'd even found out what had happened I told my husband something very bad had happened. I also remember feeling angry that I was about to bring a second child (due less than a month later) into a world where this sort of stuff happened.
I thank you for posting that link. It was a very interesting read.
http://www.chronwatch.com/content/contentDisplay.asp?aid=8443
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Molly Ringwald, Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, Emilio Estevez, Anthony Micheal Hall (who, if you haven't seen TBS's Pirates of Silicon Valley does a fabulous job at playing Bill Gates)....lots of good actors. I love that movie.
http://www.spokesmanreview.com/local/story.asp?ID=14795
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