“This is rural Nevada, and every home has a gun. My biggest concern [about teens escaping from the local juvenile rehabilitation center] is one of these kids will go into a house at 2 a.m., and there will be a farmer or a rancher there — and we’ll have a fatal shooting. In Nevada, that would be a justifiable homicide, but nobody wants to see that,” he added.

via Uprising at juvenile camp leads sheriff to call for changes – seattlepi.com.