In the rare instances that parents of school shooters are prosecuted, they are normally charged with crimes such as neglect or failure to properly secure a firearm.
June 29, 2020 – Trump retweeted a video of a white couple threatening peaceful protesters outside their St. Louis mansion. The man brandished a semi-automatic rifle, and the woman pointed a handgun at the crowd.
As Philip Bump notes, a majority of Americans support stricter gun laws and the right of women to access abortion. Despite this, a minority of Americans are allowed to block both gun control and the right to abortion through “manifested minority power.” Republican policies are all about enshrining minority control of the majority and locking this control in for as long as possible in the future.
"The question is not if there will be another shooting like this, but where it will be. I’m not one of those folks who were asking 'how could this happen here?' yesterday. My question is simply 'Who is next?'”