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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree with PP the parents will likely get off.  Ultimately looking at the situation, everything v parents is circumstantial.  They are terrible people and parents but legally, their judgement that day was in only not feeling inclined to take the kid home.  That's consistent with their parenting isn't it?  Would you expect bad parents to become good parents that day?  Of course not.  The school however is duty bound to provide as tight protection as possible to ensure safety of kids in school.  Any whiff of danger calls for cautious action - over cautious even.  They relied on the parents to be good parents but that's the wrong judgement there.  The parents are gun loving freaks who are who they are.  This kid was not going to make it - by his drawings he was pretty sick.  The only thing to do was isolate him.  The school failed to do so.  To charge the parents is correct - they allowed the sickness and facilitated the opportunity for the events to unfold but only through access of firearm.  The actual catalyst for setting the kid off doing this is something the school had power to shut down and did not.  I think the parents are guilty in being really bad parents and people but legally I don't know that they are the ones to blame for the tragedy that day.[/quote]

We'll see. They bought him that gun within a week of the shooting. I suspect prosecutors are going to turn up some evidence that could persuade a jury that these folks had a reasonable suspicion that the child was a danger to others, and they armed him anyway. [/quote]

But if the parents can prove that they had the gun locked up, then the state really doesn't have a case.  Just because a kid is sneaky enough to know the combination or where they hide the key doesn't make parents responsible.  Also, can they really prove the gun was purchased for the kid?  The social media posts don't prove anything other than the mom may have been joking about the Christmas present.  Yes, they are horrible parents and as another poster said should be charged with child neglect, but not manslaughter.  The school, however, has a big big issue...and I predict they are going to have some big problems.[/quote]

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