How to Stop School Shootings...

Imagine if the parents of the two Columbine teens had been held responsible for their children's actions back in the day...

Imagine if the divorced-and-moved-on wealthy father in the Sandy Hook killings had to answer what he knew about his mentally ill son's gun actions and what he did to prevent that massacre...

Imagine if Kyle Rittenhouse's parents, apparently ignorant of their son's actions in intimidating a friend into buying him a gun, had to pay to defend their boy themselves, being responsible for their continual negligence in raising him.

The Michigan parents, and school too, bear responsibility for not searching the child's backpack and person after the teacher alerted school authorities to the threat.

Child never should have remained in school.

Part of the problem in not involving parents sooner -- holding them accountable for the actions of the children they are responsible for raising -- is the adult parents are immature.

Adults put societal problems on children, robbing them of innocent childhoods.  They are not mature to be trusted to make good choices. Adrift in a world of adult problems filtering into their lives via the institutionalized big-school warehouses, they can get lost and their troubles go unseen or ignored.

Not this one.

The teacher who reported and photographed the child's literal ask for help should get a million-follar prize for doing (likely pronoun) her job.

If only she had thought to question him herself harshly to learn more about his access to guns, or asked him to unzip and dump the contents of his bag in front of her, four other families might not be burying their children this weekend.

Parents, not the State, are responsible for raising children. Let's keep repeating that message until more parents accept responsibility and control of their own.