Parents Of Michigan High School Shooting Suspect Charged With Four Counts Of Involuntary Manslaughter

[bodecea]

Wow, the parents are now facing four charges of involuntary manslaughter.

I don't know much about this case but from what I have read, those parents weren't very responsible.

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On the run!

 

[DukeU]

Yep and apparently they can't find the parents. His mother did text him on the day of the shooting not to do it.. This is a weird case.

I agree.

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

You are freakish

Absurd accusations are in fashion.

 

[bodecea]

There are questions we do not have the answer to yet.

The parents were “immediately summoned to the school." A school counselor removed Ethan from class with his backpack and obtained the note, but the drawings of the gun, bloody figure and writings were all “altered.” At the meeting with school officials, his parents were shown the drawing and were told they had to submit their son to counseling within 48 hours. His parents did not ask the whereabouts of the gun and did not to inspect his backpack for the gun which he had with him, according to McDonald. His parents “resisted” the idea of taking Ethan out of school and left without him.

Prosecutor outlines timeline leading to charges against Michigan school shooting suspect's parents

I'm thinking my kid would have went home with me. Is that an arrestable offense? No but it opens up question.

And they shoved that murderer back into the classroom with his victims.

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

I am betting if they raised your taxes to pay for those things at the schools you would be on this very forum whining about it for a week.

6 of one
half dozen of the other

You know the cost to implement a weapons ban?

If we're spending the money, I would prefer to keep the right.

 

[DukeU]

You can even BUY ammo on the internet.

Do they deliver to classrooms?

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Not exactly the same but I got a 12 gauge shotgun for my 16th birthday. Should the parents have seen signs that their kid is not one they should be giving a gun to? Maybe.

Absurd accusations are in fashion.

Don't try to blame others for your own embarrassing behaviors.

 

[meaner gene]

If Courthouses can do it, schools can too.

No excuse but to assume that schools want shootings so they can push the anti-gun agenda.

As they say, do the math. Take the cost of protecting the half dozen court houses in each county, to the hundreds of schools in each county.

 

[bodecea]

You have to wonder if some of the citizens in that town are gonna go vigilante on the fugitive parents.

 

[pknopp]

You have to wonder if some of the citizens in that town are gonna go vigilante on the fugitive parents.

Which could be why they left.

 

[meaner gene]

You can even BUY ammo on the internet.

Not in New York.

 

[surada]

I agree.

School 'shooter's' parents BOTH have DUIs & may be charged over massacre

His parents had run ins with the law.

 

[surada]

Not in New York.

Kids shouldn't be buying ammo on the internet while they are in class.

 

[DukeU]

They gave the child the gun as a gift.

If that is true, they're screwed, and rightfully so in this case. It's obvious the kid had problems.

 

[bodecea]

Which could be why they left.

They aren't far from Canada.

 

[Mac-7]

I believe in preventing giving access to firearms to mentally ill people.

But you have no practical way of doing that without taking all the guns which I believe is your ultimate goal

 

[Flash]

So is this the standard we are going to hold all parents accountable? What about those in gangs and as a gang member they kill another person, do the parents go up for manslaughter? What if they get caught stealing, do we charge parents for aiding and abetting?

I'm good with this however I think we need to be careful.

I am sure that the parents of the Negro and Hispanic street thugs are just as responsible for the crimes their kids do as the parents of this kid in Michigan but nobody will ever hold them responsible. It would be racist.

 

[BoSoxGal]

I agree to a certain extent. If they can prove the parents knew he had the gun or something similar, then they deserve to be charged.

They knew he had access to the gun, because they knew they hadn’t secured it in such a way that he couldn’t get access. That’s enough in my book, especially given that it has now emerged that they knew he was disturbed emotionally.

 

[meaner gene]

Kids shouldn't be buying ammo on the internet while they are in class.

Many people have posted about getting firearms as children. I'm thinking that their parents if they didn't keep the firearm locked up, at least kept the ammunition locked up, and only gave them to the kid in specific amounts, for specific purposes.

 

[Mac-7]

The math alone says the cost of such security would be a hundred times the TSA budget. Or about the same we spend on the military every year.

Whatever the cost its the only practical way to protect the students