School shooter gets rare life sentence without parole

Dad also found guilty.

James Crumbley: Father of Michigan school gunman convicted of manslaughter

 

They knew their kid was troubled they bought him a gun. The school wanted to send him home they said sorry busy. I don’t know what the charge should have been but they had a part in four deaths. Your vehicular homicide allegory is stupid.

 

The difference is the person who recklessly drives doesn’t intentionally kill anyone. I don’t know why I am responding to you. You aren’t worth the time.

 

Then don’t.

The issue isn’t the intent of the driver, but the intent or lack thereof of the parents who lent the kid the car… and how that compares to the intent of parents who give their kid a gun.

 

An appropriate analogy would be loaning their car to their son who caused a fatal accident while driving inebriated despite knowing that he has a serious problem with alcohol, gets drunk frequently and already has at least one DUI. In that case a charge of involuntary manslaughter may be appropriate.

 

Or even more appropriately, the kid gets caught for DUI, the parent texts something to the effect of “lol, don’t get caught next time”, then a week later “here’s the keys son, have fun!”.

There was ample evidence they “should have known” about his mental illness. Not only did they apparantly not seek treatment for him, they minimized it/ignored him, AND they supplied the gun. I dont think parents are responsible by default, but not sure I’ve seen a more explicit case than this. Some of the other “how the f did that kid have access to a weapon” cases killed their parents, so I guess what’s unique here is the parents were left alive and in social media/smartphone era they had quite a message history that could be used against them to show their neglect.

 

I accept that analogy.

But I think people will reasonably disagree as to whether such a charge is excessive.

 

Do they all have time before jail to get the heroes' welcome on both Fox News and at Maralago?