I agree with holding the parents accountable. If your dog mauls someone you are liable. The son should also be charged, but he didn’t wind up like this in a vacuum.
And at 14 years old, he sure as shit did not stroll into his local gun store and fill out that form 4473. That was his dad’s gun, which his dad provided unsupervised access to.
Can we go out on a limb and say the father is even being sort of abusive here? I mean… Here’s a very dangerous thing that can cause people to die. Go have fun.
I get it isn’t that simple but… I have a kid. I also have guns. My kid wants to learn to shoot one day.
There’s a big heavy door, and a lock. No way for my kid to access them without me. No access.
There’s criticizing another’s parenting choices, and then there’s abuse and I am starting to think this is abusive.
If I’m going to be completely honest; I feel like these people in support of such a withdrawal of support (of Israel) are going to have to move the needle A LOT more than a mere 5% to get the attention they want.
Might be acceptable to get a little louder about your issue; and properly educate people about it.
It would also help to provide some type of calculation or explanation for how they even came up with that number. Reading the report, the 5% looks made-up.
Deprives creators of compensation in what way? It requires a copy or copies of the book to have been purchased in order to lend out. And, the creators of books see dick-all from the sale of the book. Most of the money goes to the publisher, who acts as a gatekeeper to decide which books are worth publishing and de-incentivizes the production of new works. What a dumb argument in addition to being morally reprehensible.
I’m sure the SCOTUS conservative supermajority will find that the founding fathers intended that Russian propaganda should be allowed to elect insurrectionists and criminals.
According to CNN the Christmas gift timeline is significant because this was after police had talked to the parents about the kid making online threats to do a school shooting.
Devil’s advocate here and please inform me if I’m missing something here, but:
If agents visited and could do literally nothing about the kid saying these things, then walked away.
And no actual legal restrictions were placed upon the father or son…
… How is the father culpable for that which even police could not address?
Doesn’t this mean the law needs changed so that preventative action can occur instead of looking for a scapegoat?
That is: If this was such a red flag on hindsight, then why the fuck wasn’t it a red flag then and why aren’t the police who ultimately did nothing being arrested for homicide?
Speaking as someone who has no problem advocating for a national firearm ban along other measures, this feels like scapegoating without actually addressing the core reasons why this shit happens in the first place.
There just seems to be some incongruity with the fact that he was completely legally allowed to own a gun and without any evidence of being an accomplice to the actual crime the parent is held culpable for what his son did even after cops “paid him a visit,” which means absolutely nothing… Oh, and the son is being tried as an adult. There are just several disconnects here that I’m not comfortable with.
Like, I’m curious… If he took a steak knife that was bought by his father and left in the kitchen drawer and used that on classmates, would the father still be considered an accomplice? I seriously doubt it.
I want to be pissed off, too. But I want to both have the law actually make sense and get to the root of the fucking problem, too. Maybe we should actually look at why there is rising adolescent suicidal and homicidal ideation…? Arrest the cops for consistency sake? Create the red flag law, or you know, ban the selling or ownership of the gun in the first place that is for all intents unnecessary?
Not that the police helped the matter in any way. They excused the guns in the house and told the dad to “keep him away from the video games” like we’re back in the damn 80s again.
Cost over a billion to beat trump last time and this time is going break the record again.
I don’t understand how they’re spending this much money, like I understand the answer is corruption, but I’m just amazed they have the balls to claim that much is legitimately spent on campaigning.
Most of it is probably the salaries of the people in charge of collecting donations. They’re just after a commission, but Jamie Harrison got the DNC chair because he ran against a nationally hated Republican in a seat he had no chance of winning
Biden didn’t care he lost the election, just that he broke records for donations. Everyone ignored the donations weren’t so much for Harrison, they were against his opponent.
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