WEATHER53
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Parents are required to discern that which a minor can’t. Except for libs who consider that ordinary responsibility too onerous.That's a bridge too far. Look into the facts of the case.
These parents were either on drugs, stoned, or in total denial. The kid was asking, crying out for help long before the shooting. At one point in the testimony, the kid had asked to see a doctor because he was depressed. The kid's ol' man told him to go to his room and "suck it up." The school called the parents in for a conference because of the kid's violent drawings. The parents bought him a gun days before the shooting. No one even looked in the backpack he was carrying.
In general, I think the kids should be held responsible. In this case, the parents went out of their way to ignore a powder keg under their roof.
Times have sure changed. Parents never seemed to defend their kids when there was trouble automatically. When neighbors called my parents, they believed the neighbors. When the police brought me home in Chicago when I was 7, they actually believed the police. I chose the behavior, I chose the consequences.