Jason wrote:That's really interesting. The jury have clearly found the parents to be wilfully ignorant of their son's behaviour but you have to wonder if they were blissfully ignorant ?
Were they typically "conservative" parents who saw what was happening and thought it was no more than "growing pains" ?
I suspect they were conservative and in that cult called The National Rifle Association.
NRA members and supporters are fed a consistent diet of misinformation about guns, and instructed never to listen to any kind of rational opposition on common sense restrictions even the stupidest person would know to apply. Otherwise why would anyone give a person with a history of mental illness access to gun?
However being in a cult is no-excuse.
The Manson Family didnt' get off just because they were in a cult and neither should she.