Oxford school shooter's parents can face manslaughter trial: two people with masks sitting at table with hands cuffed while policeman looks on from background

A history of holding parents responsible for their kids’ crimes

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Just three days before her 15-year-old son carried out a mass shooting at his Michigan high school in 2021, Jennifer Crumbley was captured on security camera leaving a shooting range with the handgun in tow. She had just taken her son out to target practice in what she described on social media as a “mom and son day testing out his new Christmas present:” a 9-millimeter pistol the high schooler referred to online as “My new beauty.”

Active shooter drill: Line of several teens with hands up behind heads stand in side building hallway protected by armed police

95% of public schools conduct active shooter drills. Are students safer?

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Lockdown drills aimed at preparing students to protect themselves from school shooters do more to stir kids’ anxiety than their sense of protection, argues Dr. Annie Andrews, a South Carolina mother, pediatrician and firearm injury researcher. “Our children do not benefit from participating in these drills,” said former congressional candidate Andrews, also co-founder of  Their Future. Our Vote. “Children deserve to feel safe in their schools.”

Among those countering that viewpoint is Alex Piquero, a University of Miami criminologist and former director of the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics. “We are, unfortunately, living in a world where we just have to plan for school shootings and hope that they never happen,” said Piquero, a former editor of the Journal of Quantitative Criminology.

Uvalde families plead for languishing Texas gun bills: group of people in black shirts stand next to someone speaking at podium

Uvalde families plead for languishing Texas gun bills

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Parents whose children were killed in the Robb Elementary School massacre made sobbing pleads for stricter gun laws before legislators early Wednesday on languishing proposals that appeared headed to stall in the face of a Republican majority.

Covenant School shooting: Young blinde girl sits inside yellow school bus with face abd hand pressed against window crying

Doctor decries gun violence after school shooting near miss

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A pediatric surgeon who left The Covenant School in Nashville moments before a shooter opened fire, killing six people, says she is horrified by the gun violence that has plagued the U.S. After she received a text alerting her to the attack, Grayson took to Facebook to post about what she experienced, writing, "WHY ARE OUR CHILDREN BEING MASSACRED IN THEIR SCHOOLS?!"

Oxford school shooter's parents can face manslaughter trial: two people with masks sitting at table with hands cuffed while policeman looks on from background

Oxford school shooter’s parents can face manslaughter trial

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The murders would not have happened if the parents hadn't purchased a gun for Ethan Crumbley or if they had taken him home from Oxford High School on the day of the shooting, when staff became alarmed about his extreme drawings, the appeals court said, in a groundbreaking case of criminal responsibility for the acts of a child.

Denver school shooting suspect dead; parents push security: people marching down sidewalk with "Stop gun violence" sign

Denver school shooting suspect dead; parents push security

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A 17-year-old student was found dead in the Colorado woods after being accused of shooting and wounding two administrators at his Denver high school where students and parents were already fed up over recent violence and a lack of action by officials, authorities.

Michigan Gun Law: Group of dozens of adults with protest signs sit on wide cement steps to building entrance

Gun bills coming in Michigan after 2nd school mass shooting

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LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Armed with two handguns and dozens of rounds of ammunition, 43-year-old Anthony McRae open fired on the Michigan State University campus on the night of Feb. 13, killing three students and wounding five more. Democrats are expected to bring a sweeping 11-bill gun safety package before the Michigan Legislature this week. The package aims to establish safe storage laws, universal background checks and extreme risk protection orders.

Sign on grassy lawn in front of Stobe Douglas High School with black and white police car parked in the background.

More students and teachers are being trained to triage gunshot victims

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After 17 students and teachers were shot dead at a Florida school 23 miles away from her hometown, Ashley Freeland was afraid to step back inside her own classrooms.

“I was terrified to go to school the next day,” Freeland said, of that 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High in Parkland. “And my parents were, like, ‘Ashley, you’ll be fine, you’ll be safe, just go to school.’ And I did. But I was scared to go and I know a lot of my friends were scared to go. “You don’t know where it’s going to happen next. And you don’t know who it’s going to happen to.”

Persuaded by that reality, Freeland raised $15,000 to outfit every class at 4,800-student Cypress Bay High School in Weston, Florida, with kits from the American College of Surgeons Stop the Bleed campaign.