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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
Of course it was good enough. You’re viewing this with the benefit of hindsight.
Saying the school takes no real action when they bring the parents in for a discussion within 24 hours is ridiculous, to me. And while you say it doesn’t, it only serves to alleviate the responsibility of the parents who bought the gun, treated the situation like a joke, argued against the idea of him being sent home, and did not inform the school they had purchased a gun for him and made no effort to locate the gun prior to the shooting.
There is a reason the parents are being charged and the school is not. The school might have failed by virtue of a school shooting occurring, which is a failure in any sense, but to suggest they took no real action while the parents simply “didn’t do enough” is asinine. That’s a full on favouring of the parents.
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First, I’m not suggesting it’s an either/or where the parents should be charged and the school should not be (although I don’t know if the school should be criminally charged, if I were a parent there I’d be naming the school in my civil suit without a shadow of a doubt).
But regarding the flippant “you need to learn not to get caught” line, in some ways that’s a red herring. Obviously, in hindsight, it’s abhorrent. But kids are searching all kinds of garbage online, and I can only assume that when you buy a gun for your kid that them searching for ammo isn’t concerning. I honestly can’t relate to that at all, so I’m just assuming that.