“I want (people) to know that her and Heather both are not bandits,” Joy Miller told ABC’s Good Morning America Monday.
Well, yes, poor grammar notwithstanding, actually they very much appear to be, ma’am. Words mean things. They have apparently committed the very act that defines the word “bandit.”
Now I’m a dad, and obviously I don’t relish the thought of ever having a microphone shoved in my face by some jackass “reporter” wishing to capture my thoughts on my offspring standing accused of something heinous. We hope we’re doing what we can daily to avoid such a scenario.
But should that, God forbid, come to pass, I hope I have the sense to say something other than a direct contradiction of what has almost certainly happened. Disappointed? Oh, absolutely. Perplexed? That too. “We raised him better”? As much as I detest clichés, I hope not, but sure, that’s understandable.
But, essentially, “he didn’t do it”? Wow, I sure hope not. How could I explain that to my son, after drumming into him at every turn that actions have consequences? And perhaps that’s the primary contributor to these young ladies’ actions–the lack of that attitude. Our largely faultless society generates words like Joy Miller’s, which get widely reported but raise not a single prominent editorial flag at how ridiculous what they express is.
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It’s funny how “making a bad choice” is supposed to somehow absolve them of responsibility. If I go out into the street and randomly beat a passerby to death with a hammer, that’s a bad choice. But it doesn’t make me less responsible. If I start hanging out with a so-called bad crowd, let them talk me into smoking meth with them, get addicted, spend all my money and focus on getting high, and lose my job, home, and friends, that’s a bad choice. But it’s everyone else’s fault.
And this wasn’t some 15 year old girl. Can you imagine at 19 thinking you could get away with robbing a bank? Or that robbing a bank was anything but a serious crime?
I bet they raided the game cupboard and pocketed the Monopoly “get out of jail free” card before they set off to rob the bank. I’m really curious to see how those girls were raised because, frankly, that one mother sounds just as disillusioned as the two girls.