Let me see if I have this mass shooter story straight...

[JohnnyRingo]

The kid takes dad's pistol to school and shoots random students. I don't want to say that happens all the time, but it's been done enough. The police question him.

Next thing we know there's a warrant for the parent's arrest. That never happened before that I know.
The parents, looking for all the world like they're guilty of something, lam it to avoid arrest and retain a lawyer.

Does it seem like the kid told the cops something damning about home life? I mean like the folks are involved in something way beyond shady and the boy blew the lid off of it.

Gun running? Embezzlement? Turnpike tolls? Maybe not that, but something heavy. Spies?

[WhiskeyGrinder]

1. .

Does it seem like the kid told the cops something damning about home life?

Beyond the fact that the parents were so willfully negligent of his condition and possible actions? No.

[BlackSkimmer]

2. I guess you missed the prosecutor's press conference.

She laid the entire case out.

Nothing the kid said; they’ve got everything documented.

[Dan]

4. The mother is an insane Trumper...

But TFG will probably give them a pardon when he is reinstalled.

[brooklynite]

7. Why do people throw out pointless rants like this?

Trump (or any President) has no ability to Pardon for State convictions.

[Dan]

8. Should have put out a satire emoji

But I thought it was obvious…

[BlackSkimmer]

11. Thank you.

Never mind the fact that the criminal will not be “reinstalled.” o

[Poiuyt]

9. Oh God, nooooo!!!!

[Walleye]

3. Who knows what these parents were telling this boy. They didn't teach him to value life

[AndyS]

5. If nothing else it's criminal gunner stupidity.

As opposed to just regular gunner stupidity . . .

[iemanja]

6. the parents gave the kid a gun

Even knowing how disturbed he was. This isn't a case of just getting ahold of Dad's gun.

I expect the school told the police about how the parents reacted. They also had the boy's cell phone with texts from his mom saying "just don't get caught," when he was found with ammo at school.

[tblue37]

10. Not Dad's gun. It was purchased as a Christmas gift for the kid.

[vlyons]

12. The kid wrote some alarming things

"help me" "the world is dead" Now why would he write that? What was going on with him? Clearly he was deeply disturbed. I want to know what the family dynamic was. Because there was something very very wrong in that household.

[RockRaven]

13. The killer was talking about shooting people, drawing shooting victims, and searching online

for ammo sales (each while at school and was caught doing so).

Mom's response was "learn not to get caught."

Dad's response was to buy a(nother) gun and allow him access to it.

The parents aren't being charged because of anything the killer told police about them. They're being charged because of what the school and cops already know about their role in the killings.

[malaise]

14. The parents bought the gun for the killer

early Christmas present

[GusBob]

15. Spies?

Spies

[DeeNice]

16. It sounds like the kid had major issues and there were red flags all over the place

And no one with the guts or interest to intervene until it was too late. Maybe the parents thought he'd off himself and weren't too bothered by that. I don't know. Ignoring the signs and letting him have access to deadly weapons is bad enough and warrants the charges imho.

[Skittles]

22. they failed their kid

and other people's kids paid the price

[brush]

17. Nah, just buying a gun for a disturbed kid signaling he's about to explode and...

sending him to school about covers it...and then disappearing of course.

[bucolic_frolic]

18. I think an environmant of general defiance at all rules

He was sent back to class. No one thought to search his backpack. Schools have to act as parents in their absence.

[Goonch]

19. ;-{)🖖‍

[Effete Snob]

20. There's a lot you missed

You might want to read a few articles to catch up on what happened.

First sentence - the gun was an early Christmas gift bought on Black Friday for the kid.

The kid had more red flags than a Communist party parade in China.

The parents were called to the school because of the kids multiple instances of basically saying through words and deeds "I'm going to shoot the fuck out of this place", and the parents blew it off.

This is not "kid takes dad's pistol". It is "Mom & Dad GIVE pistol to apparent psycho killer about which they had reason to know".

One example: The day before the shooting, the kid is found by a teacher to have been searching for ammunition online. There was already enough concern about his weird ass behavior that this received disciplinary attention. Upon being informed about what happened Mom texted him to be more careful not to get caught.

"Does it seem like the kid told the cops something damning about home life?"

Other than giving the kid a gun and keeping it accessible to him after being WARNED by the school there was something not right about him?

That's it - that's the "something damning".

[XanaDUer2]

21. Here

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017696900

[ShazamIam]

23. The prosecuting DA said the parents enabled a child they knew to have severe mental problems

to kill other children.

[MadameButterfly]

24. He wrote "help"

The saddest thing is the boy (killer) wrote "Help" among the other damning things that got the teacher's attention. A part of him wanted help out of this. He wanted to be stopped. He put the clues out there. i'm betting he made sure the teacher saw what he wrote. But no one stopped him.

[SYFROYH]

25. I foresee the parents being able to use the school as co rr

When the school let him back into class without searching his backpack or locker they in effect said he wasn’t an imminent threat.

We dont know if the school asked about access to guns in the home.