Another school shooting
After watching this horrific tragedy unfold in Michigan live on TV yesterday I couldn't help wonder how this alleged shooter got a gun. But today those questions and tons more were answered by the DA. The parents of this kid were in school just hours before because 2 teachers were concerned with the kids (shooter) behavior in class and on-line. The kid had his back pack with him at the time of the meeting. We know now, his father bought the kid a gun days before the shooting. And the mother (a Trump loyalist) was texting with her son about the gun.
So both parents are now charged with 4 counts of homicide involuntary manslaughter. I can't remember when parents were charged with crime associated with their kids crimes.
My grief for those parents who lost their kids to this senseless crime overwhelms me.
The questions I ask myself now are, can that happen here? and how can we prevent it?
We asked the experts and we do have "Safe Storage Laws" on the books in our state. As you can see there's plenty of fines and jail possibilities if you have kids under 18 in your house that get access to your weapons.
https://malegislature.gov/laws/generallaws/parti/titlexx/chapter140/section131l
posted by Jim Pillsbury @ 2:45 PM
17 Comments
17 Comments:
Jim well said. What kind of laws do we have here in MA related to this? Could parents here be charged as these MI parent's were?
Lets spend at least the next few days talking about those kids who will never come home again and those families who have suffered this horrific loss. I agree with everything you say Jim but I am sick of talking about the criminals. These kids that were shot by this monster are the ones we should be focused on right now.
I was wondering when you would publish something on this Jim. We need everyone to be talking about this. We have become immune to this as it happens so often. Kids who are in school now do not know a world where they did not have to worry about getting shot at school. How sad is that?
Trump supporter? What does that have to do with this conversation? Just kidding, not surprised to hear these two bozos live in a world of false truths and hate.
I just saw on the news that these parents are missing, running from the law, fugitives. You know there is going to be a gun battle when they are caught and more lives will be lost.
How tragic all of this is. That shooter did not stand a chance of ever being a rational person being raised by this woman who talks about Trump like a good and writes him a love letter while she is married to someone else. No morals, so how did the kid ever have a chance to learn right from wrong? Not saying the kid should not be charged. Just saying the parents are for sure to blame in more way than one
Enough already. When are we going to learn?
I think these parents should be charged but has that ever happened before and what are the chances they would be convicted?
Your thoughts Jim. Could this ever happen here in Framingham?
I would start looking for them at Mara Largo. We know Trump invited Rittenhouse to visit. I suspect he probably invited these idiots to visit also as they are defenders of the right to bear arms.
When are we as a country going to do something to stop our kids being murdered in school? How can we not have done something already?
Sending prayers to the families. Oh wait, that is what we have done for the last 20 years when this happens. Hows that working out? Time to do something about this and take the power of the NRA away from them. They don't give a dam how many kids die this way, so why do we care about holding their feet to the fire until we have reasonable and effective gun laws in this county. Shame on them
dangling wire post.. doesn't belong on the subject of school shooting. I will start a new post about the wires. Thank you for understanding.
So from reading the Globe today about the horrible tragedy at Oxford High School, officials who meet with the parents should have called the police on the kid. The parents are being held on a 1 million bond and where hiding from law enforcement when they found them in a warehouse that someone let them into. The Globe did point out that in other school shootings (Sandy Hook) the school was not held liable.
The kid who pulled the trigger most likely be found guilty when he goes on trial, but the parents fate is in question. Michigan is a red state and have some very loose gun laws.
But at the end of the day, no matter what happens to the shooter, this country will grieve for the kids who were killed and once again, with tears in our collective eyes proclaim, not again.
I just heard on CNN, there's been 42 school shootings this year so far. I wonder if this will be on the schedule for the next SC or CC meeting
One of the ways this could be prevented would be to ensure that our school committee is transparent and accountable to parents and citizens. Don't you agree Jim? If the Framingham School Committee was lying to the public, if they were conspiring to harm a child - this would be unacceptable, right? What would you do, Jim?
A little off topic Corey. Not sure the Oxford SC was not transparent and accountable to the kids there. I like to think our SC is above reproach, but I don't have kids in the schools to know for sure.
Notice how fast the shooting was overshadowed by tornadoes, insurrection and inflation.
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