“Call it, I guess, a rite of passage.”That purchase reflects a relatively common American experience: Parents buying and gifting guns to their children for their birthday or around the holiday season.
For example, the teenage school shooting suspects in Oxford, Michigan, and Winder, Georgia, allegedly used firearms they had received as Christmas gifts from their parents, and those parents have faced criminal charges.
Jason Kelvie (right) and his family went target shooting last August at the Modern Sportsman in Burnsville, Minnesota.
The Michigan and Georgia cases have pushed the limits of who is responsible for a mass school shooting to include, potentially, the parent.
“The vast majority of people who buy guns for their kids or teach their children to shoot are not going to end up in a negative outcome like that,” Gutowski, the CNN contributor, said.
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