![]() "We see time and time again that when adults don't prevent their kids from accessing guns, tragedy can happen," said Shannon Watts, group founder. That's why gun safety advocacy groups like Moms Demand Action call on school districts across the country to send home information on secure firearm storage. The investigation found that 80% of weapons in school shootings, where the source of the weapon was identified, were taken from home or a relative or friend. Out of 105 school shootings through 2018, four adults were convicted and punished for the shooters' access to firearms, the Washington Post found. When have parents been charged in school shootings?īeyond mass shootings, parents or guardians have been charged in school shootings in the past. Instead, victims' families sued the parents. In 2018, a 17-year-old used his parents' firearms to kill eight students and two teachers at Sante Fe High School in Texas. But his parents couldn't be charged under Texas' safe storage law because it only applies to children under 17. His father was convicted of illegal delivery of a firearm to a person who had been treated for mental illness and was sentenced this month to 18 months in prison.īut in those cases, the fathers faced charges on firearms violations, as opposed to involuntary manslaughter, which "implies greater parental culpability," Densley said. In 2018, a 29-year-old man used a rifle his father gave him to kill four people at a Waffle House in Tennessee.
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