The parents of a young man who killed four students at his high school have been found guilty of involuntary manslaughter. This is a heckuva’ precedent.
Yahoo: “We’re living in a new world now, and that new world is a prosecutor saying, ‘If we’re not going to have legislation, if we’re not going to have significant protections, we’re going to take it upon ourselves to use the law in a way that gets accountability to everyone and anyone who could have potentially been involved,’” CNN legal analyst Joey Jackson told CNN’s Erin Burnett on Thursday evening.
Prosecutors during his weeklong trial argued James Crumbley was “grossly negligent.” He bought a SIG Sauer 9 mm gun for his son four days before the attack, failed to properly secure it, ignored his son’s downward-spiraling mental health and did not take “reasonable care” to prevent foreseeable danger, prosecutors said.
They also argued the shooting could have been prevented if James or Jennifer Crumbley had listened to a school counselor’s recommendation and taken their son out of school the day of the shooting, or if they had mentioned to school employees they had just bought him a gun.
My friend Ted Meehan had a great point on Facebook. He wrote:
A MIchigan father of a 15 year old school shooter today was convicted of being an accessory to murder. In effect, if your child makes a destructive decision and acts on it, YOU are responsible. So, the rational implication here is that THE PARENT MUST BE IN CONTROL – and will be held accountable for catastrophic decisions by their child. However, Courts in California and elsewhere are prohibiting PARENTS from having any control over a pubescent child submitting to hormone blockers or gender reassignment surgery! Planned Parenthood is marketing these “services”! Can the law prevent a parent from control over destructive decisions that victimize their child, but then hold the parents responsible for destructive decisions by their child that victimize others?
You can’t have it both ways. Either parents are responsible for their children or they’re not. Which one?
March 15, 2024 at 12:25 pm
this is pretty typical of the dissociative disorder (more like schizophrenia) inherent within progressive ideology. They demand parents be responsible when thats the angle, but the malleable set of values also allow them to reject parental responsibility when required for gender stuff. THis shouldnt suprise anyone who realizes that the lefts greatest triumph of advancing women is illustrated in Supreme Court Justice Barrett – a mother and accomplished legal expert. But when she does not conform to ideology, the left demonizes her. Just like blacks who are conservative.
March 15, 2024 at 1:42 pm
“You can’t have it both ways. Either parents are responsible for their children or they’re not. Which one?”
Ah, but the whole point of leftist politics is to establish that the left CAN have it both ways. Truth and reality and logic are irrelevant to them. All that counts is getting the outcome they desire by any means necessary. If attacking gun-ownership means playing up parental responsibility, then they’ll play up parental responsibility. If promoting sexual perversion and baby murder means erasing parental responsibility, then they’ll erase parental responsibility. No logical principles or consistency. But they are consistent about one thing: we leftists must have complete power to do whatever we want whenever we want it.