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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parents must be held accountable! Police investigated the kid last year for threatening to shoot up his school. Mom and dad should be in jail with him.[/quote]
Yup.
[b]“The father stated he had hunting guns in the house, but the subject did not have unsupervised access to them.”[/b][/quote]

The state must get involved. We cannot trust the word or judgement of just any parent . Do you think troubled kids ever have troubled parents ????

How come these red states think they can dictate how a woman’s womb is used. Come between her and her doctor, but not enter a household that contains firearms and a troubled kid? Therapy and weapons  confiscation should have been mandated in this case. [/quote]

So your solution is to lock up any troubled kid who voices a threat? Look, I'm not minimizing the importance of identifying kids who potentially pose a risk, but we can't just start locking up kids for threats. Surely there's a better way to handle it. [/quote]

The FBI went to his house to interview him and the dad.

This was not simply a one-time, passing, childish threat.[/quote]

Ok, so what's your solution? We lock the kid up forever? Plenty of kids make stupid decisions and threaten violence but never follow through on it. Again, I'm not minimizing the severity of the situation, but I just don't see how it's reasonable to lock up every kid who makes a threat.[/quote]

If the FBI went to his house, a minimum requirement should be that household weapons be secured. If the gun came from his house, the father should be put on trial.[/quote]

That requires red flag laws.

People, tell your representatives that these policies are not optional if they want your vote.

We have power, but are too damn passive in the face of child carnage. [/quote]

So, we have a national impassed based on what is considered the room cause of these issues.  So, the correct way to address this is to propose gun safety regulations that work within the framework of what the Republican party has identified that they think are problems.

So, red flag laws where we mandate that any mental health professional that has identified risky or dangerous behavior from an adult or child that could be deemed a safety risk should have to report it.   This isn't an actionable report, but there should be a national database of individuals that have mental health issues that could be a precursor to a danger to the community.  If an adult with a mental health issue within the last X time is involved in any violent offense, any guns in the house need to be removed until such time as they are cleared by a mental health professional that they are no longer a danger to the community.  They should not be allowed to purchase any guns during such a probationary period.

Children who have mental health issues should be flagged by schools.  They need to advise parents of mental health issues and that parents need to plan to have their child evaluated by a mental health professional within a certain amount of time.  If the parents do not have their child evaluated within that time and do not have an appointment scheduled, then the child can be suspended from school pending evaluation or a scheduled appointment.   Additionally, if the child has not been evaluated and cleared by a mental health professional, then any guns within the home are to be removed from the home until the child is cleared by a mental health professional that they are not a danger to the community.

This directly addresses the primary excuse that Republicans use, that we don't have a gun issue, we have a mental health issue.  If the Republicans are correct, then this should see a sharp drop in the number of school shootings.  Since we are having dozens of school shootings annually, this should be observable if this is correct.  And Republicans need to be willing to discuss alternative actions should this not cause a noticeable drop in the number of school shootings.

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