Last week, a Michigan jury convicted a 13-year-old boy of second-degree murder for a crime he committed as an 11-year-old. What do you think of the growing legal trend of trying children as adults?

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  As a federal judge and longtime closet pederast, I am strongly in favor of trying 11-year-olds as adults.

  Stanley Gibson
  Federal Judge

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  I hope the adult courts have some of those plastic booster chairs.

  Liz Strunck
  Teacher

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  I do not believe minors should be allowed to shoot people, nor do I believe their victims should be allowed to die.

  Hannah Leigh
  Psychologist

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  Come on, people, didn't any of you go through a rebellious homicidal phase during adolescence? You grow out of it.

  John Roble
  Bartender

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  I believe the children are our future: nasty, brutish and short.

  Bill Buchanan
  Systems Analyst

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  Children should face the same consequences as adults for committing murder: four years in a federal penitentiary.

  Daniel Doering
  File Clerk