bigmig19 wrote:
well this wrote:
Do you think that they may have been bad parents but didn't break any laws and are just being singled out by antigun liberals?
Lets be honest, severe disabling mental health issues aside, you can be a lot of things as a troubled teenager--runaway from home, trying drugs, behavior issues, bad grades.... But to shoot people dead in cold blood takes a team effort. Nobody shoots up a school that has any feelings at all of being loved or valued. Im not sure yet whether I support horrible parents being a crime (although im gettin there), but you buy a gun for a kid with severe issues, you are as liable as anyone.
Typical for conservatives to stick up for the parents though. If a gun was involved it must have been all good right? Because guns is awesome.
I'm conservative, and in no way have I or am I exonerating the parents. This was extreme criminal negligence on their part, in my opinion, and they should be indicted and hopefully convicted.
However, many of my liberal friends are either suffering from mental illness or have children who are. They are the first ones to bash gun owners and advocates. Whenever I suggest that one of the best things we can do for gun control is to find a way to navigate around HIPAA, see who is really mentally ill, on psychotropic meds, etc and find a way to restrict access here, they put up a raging fight that that is merely a conservative talking point, ignoring the fact that 90% of these shootings are committed by mentally ill individuals, usual on one or more psychotropic meds. I think the fight stems from the fact that they themselves are mentally compromised, on psychotropic meds, and, therefore, take it very personally.
But that doesn't change the facts. You don't go shooting others in cold blood if you are of sound mind and not drugged. The dumbfukk parents bought the gun and gave the kid access. That's another entire level of stupid and I don't know how you prevent that from happening. This is why the parents should be made an example of here. It sends a message that needs to be sent.