Should Parents Be Prosecuted When Children Us Their Guns To Commit Crimes?

Michele Fiore Is A House Representative From The State Of Nevada

Should parents be prosecuted for failing to lock up guns their children use to commit school shootings?

Since 1999, children have committed at least 145 school shootings, The Washington Post has found. Among the 105 cases in which the weapon’s source was identified, 80 percent were taken from the child’s home or those of friends and relatives. Yet The Post discovered just four adults have been convicted for failing to lock up the guns used in those attacks. Now, after a Kentucky school shooting earlier this year left two teens dead and 14 others injured, a prosecutor must decide: Should the parent who owned the weapon be charged?

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