New Jersey priest pulled gun on 8-year-old because he’s a Dallas Cowboy fan

There is just so much wrong packed into this story.

Bergen County prosecutors say that Kevin Carter, a priest at St Margaret of Cortona Roman Catholic church in Little Ferry, asked to see the boy in private on 13 September. Carter is a New York Giants fan and was unhappy the boy was supporting their divisional rivals, the Cowboys, later that day . Carter reportedly told the boy to stand against a wall before pointing a civil war style musket at him. “As he raised his weapon and pointed it at the boy, he said, ‘I’m going to shoot you,’” Bergen County prosecutor John Molinelli told NBC 4 New York on Friday . The boy was unharmed but Carter faces charges of endangering the welfare of a child and aggravated assault by pointing a firearm. “The young boy was apparently a fan of a particular football team, the priest was not. So perhaps we have indication it started out as that,” Molinelli said. “There’s no such thing as joking around with a weapon when you’re dealing with an eight-year-old kid.”

I can't sit around and condone adults pointing firearms at kids for a variety of reason, #1 because it's INSANE.

The child, again, is ok, unharmed but you know that just doesn't make it ok.

Priests, when they aren't being accused of various and sundry indescretions, are authority figures and role models and if my PRIEST can play with a gun like that, children may think so as well.

Do I even need to mention that?

Yeah, in America in 2015 I think I do.

Utterly outrageous.