How can a parent ever believe that their child would become a mass murderer? Parents should not be held accountable for these murders. Whether these kids came from dysfunctional or poor families or show signs of early mental illness, most don’t become murderers.

One of the ways the United States has begun to manage gun control with minors, who have committed mass murder is to arbitrarily hold parents responsible.

America is a gun-loving nation, invested in the gun culture. Although attempts at restrictions on weapons have been demanded by various politicians and civilians there have been few successful changes.

Why are some guns still not illegal in the U.S.?

In the United Kingdom, after the 1996 mass killing at Dunblane Primary School in Scotland where 43-year-old Thomas Hamilton killed 16 pupils and one teacher and injured 15 others, the Labour government enacted gun control sanctions and banned assault weapons in 1997.

Guns are not banned in any European country, but they are heavily regulated.

What has recently occurred in the United States?

Ethan Crumbley was sentenced to life in prison without parole for gunning down four classmates and wounding six others and a teacher at Michigan’s Oxford High School in 2021.

Jennifer and James Crumbley, his first parents, were convicted in Ethan’s mass school shooting and have been sentenced to 10-15 years in prison.

County Judge Cheryl Matthews said, “These convictions are not about poor parenting. These convictions confirm repeated acts, or lack of acts, that could have halted an oncoming runaway train.”

The presumption is that parents maintained the knowledge that their child possesed the capacity to carry out such a heinous crime.

Children say many frightening things. Mental health issues in teenagers does not equate to mass murder. If the profilers are not able to formulate characteristics of mass........

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