Perhaps future parents need to be advised that they will be legally and financially liable for their children's actions until age 18 or whatever legal majority. The day parents fail to gift their children with decent values and respect for themselves and others and instead gift them with an AK or fail to keep lethal weapons under lock and key they will be charged along with their child for any misuse. It is time for parents to take the hard line of monitoring their progeny. Why should schools have to be the ones to check 100s of backpacks for weapons. One parent can check their child's backpacks and other places of hiding before they leave home. Each household needs to know when their child is leaving for school each day and how they are doing as their day begins. Most parents are doing a good job of raising their children, but it is the one child that is missing the love and direction that can change other family's lives forever.
Jean Groman
Midtown
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