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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They weren't *that* poor. Guns and ammo cost money.[/quote]

They had recently been evicted. Money mismanagement I guess??? [/quote]

Neighbors and former landlord have spoken to the press. Seems like the mother was a complete nightmare: locking kids out of the house for hours (with kids banging on door to get back in), mother driving up and down street drunk, mother passed out in driveway or on front lawn with car running and music blaring, mother screaming. Father seemed to not be much of a problem but also seemed to stand by while wife did all this. Mother recently arrested for beating and tying up her own elderly mother.

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Maybe Grandma was refusing to provide the free child care JD said she should[/quote]

The village failed these kids.  And of course the idiot Father who bought his troubled son a gun for Christmas even after he had threatened to shoot up a school.  Both will go to jail, people will be satisfied that justice was served and the system that makes guns very easy to access and failed to help these kids will not change and there will be more school shootings and tiny coffins in a few weeks.[/quote]

From interviews I read with neighbors, it seems like child protective services really failed these kids (unless there is more we don't know which there could be). Neighbors said they called CPS several times to report the mother over a 2 year period. And that the kid in question was never at school, he had chronic absenteeism, and would wander around the neighborhood and woods  all day. Where were the school and CPS?[/quote]

CPS is understaffed and underfunded and foster care is not ideal, there aren’t enough foster families. It takes a lot for a child to be taken out of a home.[/quote]

+1  I hate that every time one of these shootings occur that people rush to blame the people and institutions around the kid that aren't easy to change.  Republicans don't want gun control, but they don't want to pay for more social services or child services or mental health services.  So we are where we are.
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