A Mass Shooter Isn’t the Only Guilty One.

This week a major case involving gun violence was decided in Pontiac, MI where back in 2021, a 15-tear old high school student walked through the school firing a semi-automatic pistol and proceeded to kill four students along with wounding seven other adults and kids.

The jury returned a guilty verdict of involuntary manslaughter against the shooter’s mother, and the father will go on trial for the same charges next month. In Michigan, the verdict could bring a sentence of 15 years for each of the four counts. Involuntary manslaughter is defined as helping someone else commit a murder without necessarily intending to be involved in a fatal assault.

Several days before the shooting, the parents bought a semi-auto pistol for their son as a gift, even though the kid was obviously not yet of age when he could purchase or own a gun, never mind have unsupervised access with it or take it into a school.

The morning of the shooting, the parents met at the school with a guidance counselor, who had observed their son drawing a picture of a gun and also reported that the kid seemed uninterested in school affairs and was generally doing poorly in classroom work.

After refusing to take their son Ethan out of school that day, the parents left and went their separate ways. Their son remained in the building…