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In the alleged facts of this case specifically, I say yes.I clearly answered that question. Yes they should be held responsible.
Do you believe the father of the boy in this week's shooting should be held criminally responsible in any way?
I say yes...100%
What is your answer?
Even as a gun owning american and the father of a child who was given hunting two hunting rifles as a minor. He was also accompanied in the hunting stands by myself or another adult, and educated properly in firearms. And totally educated before we even left the house the first time with the hunting rifles. As hard as it is to say, cause it can obviously happen, if my son while still a minor tripped out and had free access to one of those rifles and went on a killing spree, then yes I'm liable. Cause he's a minor. These days, he's 22 and on his own accord legally.
However, the conditioning of this child to commit a mass shooting occured long before that day, or before the weapon was chosen. Either by the parents, or by multiple societal influences. This shooting was going to happen. The criminal responsibility of the father is that not only did he gift a type of firearm to a minor child that was not of legal age to own, he also kept it accessible to the minor child. And further made these decisions concerning said AR after the GBI visited the home for social media postings. I fully realize not all kids are condtioned the same. I've known very good parents/people that no matter what they tried, they got a bad apple. It's not always going to be a prents fault. That's why it should always be treated case by case.
But is it really about the AR? The GBI has already been on him for a year. The threat call was already made to the schools. That school was specifically called out as the first target. The kid had already been conditioned in life to have the mindset to commit a shooting, yet he was still begging to be stopped by providing ample opportunity to be stopped.