[ThirdOfFive]

Originally Posted by Ptmckiou

Apparently, the parents are perceived as being grossly negligent.

1. First, they purchased the firearm for their son for Christmas. He posted pics of it with him all over his social media and bragged. He is a minor and that’s illegal.

2. The kid was at school searching on his phone for ammunition for the gun, and his mother text message to him “Just don’t get caught. LOL.”

3. The day of the shooting, school officials met with the parents and kid and requested the parents take him out of school. They refused. The school showed the parents the disturbing picture their son drew and was found in his desk….kids shot and blood everywhere. Parents still refused to take son out of school.

4. While in the meeting, the son left the meeting while the parents were still talking with the school staff. At some point, the mother texted the son “Don't do it.” …it was a some point shortly afterwards that he shot all his classmates…4 dead, 7 wounded.

Parents withdrew $4000 from their bank accounts the next day and did not turn themselves in when charges were filed. They were finally found in an abandoned warehouse in another town by a top. He appeared they were hiding out,

We shall see how it plays out, but not looking good for the parents, because it seems they knew their son was troubled, allowed access to a gun ( supposedly bought it for him for Xmas), and refused to address at school the son’s behavior and actions prior to the event. Don’t know if the school had the legal means to demand the parents take the kid home, but there could be some liability there too.

All excellent points.

I firmly believe that much if not most of the ills of our society can be traced directly to bad parenting. The literal explosion of one-parent households coupled with what can best be described as a laissez-faire attitude toward parenting in general has produced a generation that has monsters all out of proportion to that of any other generation. Kids need 1. role-models (both sexes and on a consistent basis), and 2. consistent and fair discipline. Good parenting is no more complicated than that.