Colin Gray, the Georgia father whose teenage son Colt killed four people in a 2024 school shooting, was sentenced Thursday to 15 years in prison in a landmark case testing the limits of who can be held responsible for a mass shooting.
The deterrence is (obviously, I thought) further upstream. Parents should not treat firearms as toys to give their children. Hopefully the risk of spending years in prison will make the next parent who is considering buying their kid a gun also consider how they’ll keep control of it and ensure safe, responsible use. (As opposed to this guy, who just left it unsecured in his kid’s closet)
If you haven’t read the details of this case, I encourage you to do so. This isn’t a “it could happen to anyone” situation we’re talking about here.
The deterrence is (obviously, I thought) further upstream. Parents should not treat firearms as toys to give their children. Hopefully the risk of spending years in prison will make the next parent who is considering buying their kid a gun also consider how they’ll keep control of it and ensure safe, responsible use. (As opposed to this guy, who just left it unsecured in his kid’s closet)
If you haven’t read the details of this case, I encourage you to do so. This isn’t a “it could happen to anyone” situation we’re talking about here.