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Pleased that parents may be liable for school shootings
Finally, irresponsible parent(s) are being held liable and charged. Hopefully this may affect these horrible shootings by troubled kids.
BTW Dr Phil had a wonderful episode on this topic. He, and other leaders may have an impact to alleviate these shootings. His stats show that 94% of these shooters had told other students or posted their plans. |
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Unfortunately firearm possession and handling is far from the only area that irresponsible parenting is causing others to suffer from that irresponsibility. |
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We need to encourage our younger generation members to befriend the loners and misfits so that these kids do not resort to violence. |
I would just point out that thousands of murders with firearms are committed every day by teens, and the parents are almost never charged with any crime. There should be a more consistent application of the laws.
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They are chipping away of our rights as legal gun owners! |
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2nd Amendment says right to a well armed militia and not the individual's right to own military style weapons.
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It doesn't say anything about the right to a well armed militia. A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. The Militia and Minute Men of 1775 - Minute Man National Historical Park (U.S. National Park Service) |
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1. If parents can be held responsible for the actions of their children when committing firearm violations then what else can they be held responsible for? If a child gets into a fight can the parents be charged with assault? If the 16 year old has an accident and someone is killed, can the parents be charged too? There should be consistency in holding parents accountable - watch out for unintended consequences. 2. If a parent comes into a gun store with their child to purchased a firearm and the child then uses it to commit a crime, can the store owner now be charged? He should have known the there was a chance the child would get their hands on the weapon that he provided. 3. If the theory is the parent should have reasonably expected the child might commit a crime if provided a weapon and is therefore responsible for providing the weapon then is the manufacturer any less responsible for producing and providing the #1 weapon used in these crimes? Once the mob picks up the pitchforks they are hard to put down again. |
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Because a well regulated militia is necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people who will be part of that militia to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed because those armed people will be part of the well regulated militia that is necessary to the security of a free state. Volumes have been written on this subject, it isn't going to be settled here. |
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No kid should bring any gun to school, automatic or AR or hand gun. |
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Sorry - I am a Conservative and see the validity of the Second Amendment. But - enough is enough - we MUST act in this country, despite the 'slippery slope'. We MUST hold parents responsible - especially in the case of the last two shootings (MI & GA). In MI the parents were convicted, and the recent GA case is pretty cut and dry. Parents MUST accept responsibility. Even for minor offenses such as robbery, driving, etc. The buck must stop somewhere. Kids AND parents must be RESPONSIBLE for their actions. |
This discussion is about parental responsibility regarding guns. To allow it to degenerate into partisan flag-waving accomplishes only one thing.
Reuters, in a recent article, states: "Lankford's study found that the "deadliest" shootings comprised 25% of mass public shootings from 1966 to 2009, but from 2010 to 2019 had increased to 50% of mass public shootings, in which there was "direct evidence that perpetrator was influenced by another specific attacker or attackers." (''Copycat' mass shootings becoming deadlier, experts warn after New York attack", Tim Reid and Kanishka Singh, reuters dot com, May 15, 2022) In other words, there are few if any ways to assure the continuity of such shootings, than rancorous public discussions, especially that which concerns "military style" weapons. It doesn't take much to tip an unsocialized kid over the edge, than the guarantee that his name will be national news AND associated with an AR-style weapon. Is it really worth more shootings, to have such discussions? |
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In Michigan, the parents were convicted of involuntary manslaughter. In Georgia, the father is being charged with four counts of involuntary manslaughter, two counts of second-degree murder (I don't understand which two were second degree murder). As far as I can tell, they only go after the parents in a school shooting. Have they gone after parents when the kid kills someone while robbing a gas station or shoots another person on the street? Or just mugs someone? Juvenile offenders were involved in about 1,122 murders in the U.S. in 2020, representing about 8% of all known murder offenders. I guess if the murder is a mass school shooting, the parents are also responsible. If it isn't, the kids are responsible. |
Times have changed. My High School had a rifle team which practiced on site with live ammo.
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Guns have been around forever, but the problem at hand has grown very bad much more recently. Connect the dots, these shootings have increased exponentially along with the growth of social media.
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I just heard on television that the judge told the shooter that he faced the death penalty or life in prison. Apparently the judge didn't know the law. He had to bring the shooter back into the courtroom and tell him that he was not facing the death penalty.
Judge Mingledorff initially told the suspected shooter that he could face the death penalty as a result of his actions. He later called Gray back into the court room to clarify that, as a minor, he is not eligible for the death penalty. I would think a judge that is on national tv would know that in 2005 the Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 decision that people who are under 18 at the time of the crime can't be executed for their crimes. https://cfsy.org/wp-content/uploads/...ns-Opinion.pdf Not sure if the court needed 87 pages to write the decision. |
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Many cities have chosen the alternate option: charge and prosecute no one. How's that working? |
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IMHO the father should not have bought his obviously deranged 14 year old son a gun and so bears some responsibility. If the boy had acquired a gun on his own, say on the street, and the parents were unaware he had one it would be a different story. Somewhat analogously, If a mentally disturbed boy was older and of driving age perhaps a parent should not allow him to drive as he could drive a vehicle through a crowd, killing and maiming people. The problem is the boy is mentally disturbed and a parent provided him with a means to murder. |
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We were very "fortunate" that the MI & GA mass shooters were cowards. Rather than being killed by cop, they gave up. That's very good and very rare. Upon investigation and interviews, we are finding that the parents WERE in fact culpable. They KNEW their teen was troubled. They KNEW he was bullied and troubled at school. They provided access to the weapons.
At some point in time WE (the public) MUST point blame to parents - especially when the evidence is so clear. I'm a Conservative, but SOMETHING MUST BE DONE. I believe that WE CAN abate some of these shootings without impacting the 2nd Amendment. Let's use common sense. I can't imagine our kids having to live (and learn) be concerned that another shooting may happen to their school. And YES - apply these same standards and new laws to "regular" shootings or violence as well... |
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This subject is not about type of weapon used, but the fact that the parent was charged with the crime, along with his son. |
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If a student stabs someone, do you go after the parents because a knife was left out? All would say, “absurd!”
Seems like some just hate guns? Perhaps the cause is more important. How many are desensitized to killing through gun shooting video games. You know, the one’s parents use as rewards and as a babysitter. |
Yes, let's do like the North Korean government, jail the entire family for what one family member does. It is the "guilt by association" system that punishes relatives of the perpetrator, even if they did not commit the crime. This punishment can extend up to 3 generations.
If your alcoholic, black sheep uncle robs a bank, you as his nephew/niece will accompany him in jail also. Even a child born in prison to a woman sentenced under this system can possibly stay in prison for it's entire life. |
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The government can say "you can have pellet guns, cap guns, crossbows, longbows, muskets, and any Smith and Wesson manufactured prior to 1947. Those are all the arms you have the right to keep and bear." The government can also say "yes you can keep and bear arms. And we can impose a National universal background check that spans all 50 states and all US territories. If you fail the check - you can keep and bear a cap gun and a shortbow, with no more than 10 arrows." That'd satisfy the Constitutional amendment. But I'm guessing no one really cares about the law, they just care about their freedoms. If they really cared about the law, they'd try for restrictions (not banning) of who can and cannot keep and bear arms, what kinds of arms they can and cannot keep and bear, and how they may acquire those arms that they have the right to keep and bear. No civilian needs semi-automatic weapons, unless they're hoping to shoot a lot of people. That is the purpose of semi-automatic weapons. They aren't for hunting, they're not for self-defense. They are for attacks. And if you need to fire a whole clip to hit the target, then you need to just give up and try darts for awhile. So no - it's not even for target practice. |
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North Korea Executes Dozens of Officials - Reports - Newsweek |
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Shedding some light
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Exactly!!!!! Why don’t people understand this?!!!
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