thank you for the update, anna, and thank you to these gentlemen for sharing their stories.

Well Firekitty, I will have to say running away was only the start of many problems I would have there. There was a standard number of lashes you got with the strap when you ran away. It was 100 automatic. These are the ones that bring blood and cut you bad to the point of needing stitches at times. When someone ran…

Firstly, I was there because I ran away from home. Unfortunately not all of us had that wonderful family life. By the time I was 13 years old I had 5 stepfathers and don't recall a one that wasn't abusive. I broke the tip off of a knife and was beaten like a man with his fists, so I ran away, so my only problem at the…

I am familiar with the experiment, as far as the associating it with the school I would say it does not. The mind set of the people who ran the school was that of sadist and pedophiles. Many of the children were sexually abused and psychologically abused as well as physically. The men who worked there enjoyed the…

Thank you for that post, I hate to admit it but at the age of 67 I still crave and appreciate the positive input and praise from others. Something that I never got and needed as a child.

My name is Bill Price and I am a survivor of the infamous Dozier school from 1961, 62, 63. I have posted one other reply on this blog, but I did not go into detail about what happened to me there. I notice that people can reply to a post and ask questions if they are curious about the truth. I will offer to you an…

ALL GUNS ARE LOADED, ALWAYS, FOREVER, EVERY SINGLE GUN.

Yep. Because he is 5 and knows not what he's doing. Hell - even if, for some reason, he was pissed at the infant and killed him on purpose, there's no possible way he could understand what it actually means...

No. Firearms are inanimate objects and do not increase a risk. Irresponsibility and carelessness increase the risk that something terrible will happen. And that really only increases if you're inside my house. Which you shouldn't be.

I wish I could say the same, but I'll be shooting to kill if I ever find myself in a situation where I need to use my gun.

This was a very well thought out and presented story of the atrocities that happened in the Dozier School. I am a former ward of the school (I don't like the word inmate, it sounds so much like prison and I was sentenced there. I was there for running away from an abusive home) I never experienced a real childhood…

Did she think she'd get away with the paintball gun accident story? I'm confused as to why that was a viable option to tell police.

We have a ridiculous number of guns. Hubby is a bit of a nut. But they're all (except one) locked up in the guesthouse, which is 100% off limits to everyone but me and hubby. I don't want Baby Birdy to even know we have guns until she's old enough to understand the danger. I'm not really sure how I'm going to go about…

It's reasonable to have the "it won't happen to me" assumption under many circumstances. Like, I walk my dog at night and I could get mugged or shot at, but it's unlikely and I assume it won't. And you should let your children out to play unsupervised, because you can't expect that something awful will happen to them…

I guess pray for the five year old who will carry this absolutely horrific tragedy with him for the rest of his life.

No reports have explained how or why the 5-year-old shot his sibling

We bought a bio-locking safe for the gun I keep for home defense. It can only be opened with my fingerprint. Hopefully, my kid will never even see the safe. But if she does, I'm going to tell her that it's a trap for the souls of little children to be transported to the Containment Unit, where they don't get any toys…

I try not to hate people, but anyone who abuses and tortures a child like this? Fuck them, I hope I'm wrong and Hell exists so they can roast in it.

The only justice we can hope for is to discover the truth and do our best to prevent such abuses in the future.

Man. Stories like this are why it always gets me when people say things like, "Society is going downhill! People are so TERRIBLE to each other nowadays! What happened to the good old days?" There were no "good old days." Not ever. People have always just been awful, and it was easier to hide it.