The guns they owned weren't registered, either. So, more disregard to law.
Thank you so much for your articulate and caring reply.
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I understand the high emotion. Remember that a good percentage of teens at that school had access to guns and were avid hunters. They posed for school pictures with their guns. Prob a very common way to bond with your child in that part of Michigan.
In light of all that has come out since the shooting, it doesn't sound like the Crumbley's did much bonding with their child.
I think there is a difference between having access to guns to participate in an activity with their friends/family (such as hunting or going target shooting) or posing for pictures (that were very likely taken by adults) and having a child at home who has -as far as we know based on his journals and text messages- expressed the need for some help with mental/emotional issues and not taking measures to restrict their access beyond hiding it in an unlocked drawer. The question we will probably never have an answer to is exactly where the gun was and how he got access to it. Jennifer said that the last time she saw it, it was in the (unlocked) case in her car after they went shooting. James was (according to her testimony) responsible for removing and safely storing the weapon. According to James on the day of the shooting, the weapon was "hidden" in one drawer of the armoire with the bullets "hidden" in a separate drawer.
While that may be true, the majority of hunters use rifles and shotguns, not handguns. I can't think of a single reason why a 14-year-old needs to own a 9mm handgun, period. Yes, rifles and shotguns are just as deadly (oftentimes, more so), but they are also harder to hide. Also remember that responsible parents and gunowners, in general, secure the guns in their homes in locked safes or cabinets when they aren't being used -- not only to keep them out of the hands of unsupervised children but also to prevent them from being stolen by criminals.
BBM:James Crumbley was convicted of four counts of involuntary manslaughter Thursday in connection with the four students killed by his son at Oxford High School on Nov. 30, 2021, a rare trial against a parent whose child carried out a school mass shooting.Journal entries and a gun lock: 5 key moments from James Crumbley trial
Journal entries made by the Oxford school shooter and the ease of securing a gun cable lock were among moments standing in James Crumbley's trial.www.detroitnews.com
Prosecutors argued Crumbley, 47, was grossly negligent by allowing his son to have access the gun the teen used to kill four classmates and failing secure it, despite warning signs about the teen's deteriorating mental health. His attorney, meanwhile, had insisted Crumbley had no idea what his son was planning and police can't prove he didn't lock up his guns.
A jury convicted Jennifer Crumbley early in February on the same charges, and the cases presented by prosecutors had much overlapping facts and evidence. Both Jennifer and James will be sentenced April 9.
But a few moments still stood out in James' eight-day trial about his behavior leading up to the shooting and in its immediate aftermath, and how quickly a gun lock can be secured...
So how did the key get out of the bubble card and into the beer stein when the packaging had never been opened...And if the key unlocks a gun, why would you not have it permanently in your control, as in, in your wallet?
I might've messed that up. Maybe was the key to the gun safe in the stein? Because the trigger lock and key dogleg still been together, in the bubble pack like you say. And iirc the bubble pack was stuffed under the foam in the gun case itself.
In the absence of that thought, they must have been aware he might harm himself. And it would appear, by their actions (leaving a gun in easy range) that they didn't particularly care.
