Should the case against the Crumbley parents be allowed to proceed, it would set a dangerous precedent. [More]
What a nightmare. And the legal issues are the least of it.
If it were your child, would you rather an armed teacher had been able to stop him instead of having to live with this?
[Via Michael G]
if I had been this creep’s parent he would have learned, VERY early on, to respect other people and their desires, to understand that the commandment “thou shalt not murder” means precisely what it says, and that to bodily harm another is nothing short of “murder light” and just as prohibited. Futher, he’d have been raised with a healthy FEAR of the Lord God who made him and everyone else.
After that was all deeply engrained within him, we’d have had some times together with firearms where he would further learn proper gun handling and use.. with by nature includes the fact that you don’t EVER point a gun toward another except in the defense of innocent life.
So yes, these “parents” failed miserably in the raising/training of their son.
All that said, the parents are NOT responsible for the actions of their sorry excuse of a son, HE is and no one else. Only HE bears any responsibility for using that gun the way he did. Had his parents not given it him, he still could have got his grubby paws on something else and done the same thing. The murder was in HIS heart and HIS heart only.
Let the parents bear the shame of having raised a dirtbag for a son. THAT is theirs. But NOT the deaths their rotten son perpetrated upon innocents.
I would also put signficant responsibility upon the public officials who did have interactions with the dirtbag son, had plenty of evidence he was unstable and COULD harm, yet did nothing to protect potential victims. Again, no burden of guilt for the deaths caused by this creep, but only for their failure to take appropriate action when they knew and could have.