Jennifer and James Crumbley are the first parents convicted in a U.S. mass school shooting.

The parents of a Michigan school shooter were each sentenced to at least 10 years in prison Tuesday for failing to take steps that could have prevented the killing of four students in 2021.

Jennifer and James Crumbley are the first parents convicted in a U.S. mass school shooting. They were found guilty of involuntary manslaughter after prosecutors presented evidence of an unsecured gun at home and indifference toward the teen’s mental health.

Ethan Crumbley drew dark images of a gun, a bullet and a wounded man on a math assignment, accompanied by despondent phrases. Staff at Oxford High School did not demand that he go home but were surprised when the Crumbleys didn’t volunteer it during a brief meeting.

  • otp@sh.itjust.works
    12·
    8 months ago

    Hoping to see more of this (punishment for parents, not school shootings). Maybe if the owners of guns get prosecuted for crimes committed using their guns, we’d see people putting their OWN gun control into effect.

    Owning a gun should be a responsibility, and anyone who isn’t maintaining that responsibility should get punished when someone dies because of their negligence.

    • Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world
      5·
      8 months ago

      Personally I feel like that’s one of the best ways to start policing guns appropriately. Owners of guns used in crimes should be implicated in the crime committed. The majority of stolen guns aren’t heisted from vaults, they’re stollen from people who don’t secure them. The people that leave them in the car, or in the side table. You wanna deal with illegal guns, that’s where you start.

    • callouscomic@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      8 months ago

      But, but, infant got car deaths have taught me that “parents have suffered enough already.” /s