Parents of Michigan school shooter charged with manslaughter.

[dwa12479]

Michigan does not have a safe storage law of any sort that I know of. I feel like this sets a dangerous precedent.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/michigan-...050007325.html

[WARFAB]

Is this the first time a parent not securing guns has led to a shooting? Lanza shot his mom, so can't really charge her. I'm just wondering why this is the first I've heard of this happening.

It leads to some slippery slope questions about leaving knives and baseball bats available to kids. What about giving kids access to the family car once they get their permit to drive?

[WARFAB]

I heard that the parents are now on the run.

[usmcveteran]

I'm interested in the prosecutors rationale for this decision. Owning a firearm and having it not locked as mentioned is not a crime.

Teens are teens and do and say stupid things all the time. So unless the prosecutor can show the parents knew there was a high likely hood their kid had intent to kill people then they shouldn't be persuing these charges.

Maybe Hochul should be charged with involuntary manslaughter for every person killed in NYS that she let out of prison early that had violent pasts?

This is purely political on prosecutors part.

[thughes]

I'm interested in the prosecutors rationale for this decision. Owning a firearm and having it not locked as mentioned is not a crime.

Here ya go, it's not a "punish the parents because they didn't lock their guns up"....these people are more than slightly f ucked up, if you ask me:

https://www.whec.com/national/parent...21070/?cat=565

"School officials became concerned about the younger Crumbley on Monday, a day before the shooting, when a teacher saw him searching for ammunition on his phone, McDonald said. Jennifer Crumbley was contacted and subsequently told her son in a text message: "Lol. I'm not mad at you. You have to learn not to get caught," according to the prosecutor.

On Tuesday, a teacher found a note on Ethan's desk and took a photo. It was a drawing of a gun pointing at the words, "The thoughts won't stop. Help me," McDonald said. There also was a drawing of a bullet, she said, with words above it: "Blood everywhere." Between the gun and the bullet was a person who appeared to have been shot twice and is bleeding. He also wrote, "My life is useless" and "The world is dead," according to the prosecutor.

The school quickly had a meeting with Ethan and his parents, who were told to get him into counseling within 48 hours, McDonald said. The Crumbleys failed to ask their son about the gun or check his backpack and "resisted the idea of their son leaving the school at that time," McDonald said. Instead, the teen returned to class and the shooting subsequently occurred.

Jennifer Crumbley texted her son after the shooting, saying, "Ethan, don't do it," McDonald said.

James Crumbley called 911 to say that a gun was missing from their home and that Ethan might be the shooter. The gun had been kept in an unlocked drawer in the parents' bedroom, McDonald said. Ethan accompanied his father for the gun purchase on Nov. 26 and posted photos of the firearm on social media, saying, "Just got my new beauty today," McDonald said. Over the long Thanksgiving weekend, Jennifer Crumbley wrote on social media that it is a "mom and son day testing out his new Christmas present," the prosecutor said."

[usmcveteran]

Ok so it definitely seems the parents didn't take the situation as seriously as they should have if all of that is true. If they had taken it seriously they could have easily stopped what happened.

[thughes]

Exactly!

[WARFAB]

The usual voice in the media are now going on about how scary and dangerous the 'military style' Sig pistol the kid used is.

[thughes]

Wait till they find the stuff about the early ones not exactly being drop safe.....

[dwa12479]

More details coming to light definitely seem to make the parents out to be complicit. This is a horrible story.