@otto-snip
There are four corpses who, a few days ago, were children.
There are more children hospitalized with a variety of wounds.
There are hundreds of children who likely will experience trauma and PTSD for all their lives.
This is the germane issue. How did children become corpses? A simple formula:
Ethan Crumbley + loaded gun = dead children.
IMO those Michigan gun safety laws are very ambiguous. It’s illegal to allow a minor to own a gun. It’s illegal to allow a minor to obtain unsupervised access to a gun. Yet it’s not mandatory, only recommended, to safely store a gun so a child cannot access it.
Well then IMO the parents should have slept with the gun under their pillows, or taken it upon themselves to lock the gun up, or whatever else it would take to keep it away from Ethan, because this dreadful outcome shows they did not perform their duty of care as parents.
And there is no doubt this gun was meant for Ethan to own. The mother said so and Ethan has social media with that gun in his hands. That’s illegal and the parents didn’t care. So we get the outcome that we got.
Ethan did this, but he was allowed to.
I’ll never get over Ethan at the barricaded classroom door, telling the children inside that he was from the sheriff’s office and they were safe to come out. This is trickery on the most egregious level. And I know the parents don’t care because they ran away and left him to deal with the consequences alone.
Somehow a path was greased to enable Ethan to kill. Laws, Michigan laws, were broken.
Your opinion is very clear and you are entitled to it. This is all my opinion.