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[EPW]

I think all these events happened on the same day? teacher finds note -> bring parents to school -> parents leave kid at school -> shooting & dad finds gun is missing at home

[Dauphin]

The only thing that mattered was their irresponsible behavior by leaving weapon and ammo in easy to reach locations, so any member of the household could grab them both

It wasn't just left it was gifted, no? When they knew he had fantasised about shooting up a school? Unless I misheard a news report that said that, or it was being economical with truth.

Enablement, verging on telling the kid to plain do it. If the case.

[SlowwHand]

Legally, it does matter.

[Proteus_MST]

But would those charges make sense if the shooter happened to be 18?

Yes.

Seems like the parents left weapon and ammunition both together at easy to reach places, so anyone (not only the owner of the gun) was able to get both, weapons and ammo, and use them for crimes.

I don't think that it would have mattered if the kid had been 18.
I don't even think that it would have mattered whether or not the kid was in a parent-child relationship with the couple.
The only thing that mattered was their irresponsible behavior by leaving weapon and ammo in easy to reach locations, so any member of the household could grab them both

[SlowwHand]

No, in answer to a hypothetical situation.

[EPW]

But would those charges make sense if the shooter happened to be 18?

[SlowwHand]

No.

[EPW]

If the parents are culpable for the shooting doesn't that logically mean the shooter should be charged as a child or perhaps even not at all?

[Uncle Sparky]

A good start.

"lol i'm not mad at you. try not to get caught" - shooter's mommie

[Broken_Erika]

Whitley Bay lizard rescued after 4,500-mile suitcase stowaway


A lizard has been rescued after stowing away in a suitcase and travelling 4,500 miles from Florida to Whitley Bay.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-59508158

[BeBMan]

I always read his name as XI, and thought the next guy will be XII...

[Uncle Sparky]

The Greeks will note they skipped a couple of letters while naming the new COVID19 Omnicron variant. Before Omnicron comes Xi, which I'm SURE they skipped because that's coincidentally how you spell the name of the leader of China, Xi Jinping... So, maybe we started with the Xi variant.

[Broken_Erika]

Mr Goxx, the cryptocurrency-trading hamster, dies


The cryptocurrency-trading hamster Mr Goxx has died.


The rodent, who shot to internet fame for his ability to often outperform human investors using a specially built trading cage, died on Tuesday.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-59432659

[Broken_Erika]

Canadian Armed Forces forces help rescue thousands of chickens from flooded B.C. farm

Soldiers helped remove chickens stranded in barns cut off by flood waters in Abbotsford

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/canadian-armed-forces-forces-help-rescue-thousands-of-chickens-from-flooded-b-c-farm-1.6257242

[Broken_Erika]

Bart Simpson graffiti appears following Kidderminster speed camera 'moon'



Graffiti depicting a 'mooning' Bart Simpson has appeared near the home of a man arrested after baring his behind to a speed camera van.

Terminally ill Darrell Meekcom, exposed himself at the van in Kidderminster, Worcestershire as part of a list of things he wanted to do before he died.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-59280919