727 - What The Conviction of a Parent of a High School Shooter Could Mean
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2024
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
The manslaughter conviction of Jennifer Crumbley, whose son shot and killed four students at his school, is unprecedented. But will it be a watershed moment for gun violence in schools? Tim Carey, law and policy advisor at the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions, talks with Stephanie Desmon about the unique facts of this case, larger implications, and why Child Access Prevention laws are an important part of the conversation. Please note that since this podcast was recorded, a man in Michigan became the first person to be charged under the state's new firearms storage law. The law requires gun owners to store firearms unloaded and secured with a locking device or in a lockbox if a minor lives at or is likely to visit their property.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, |
| 0:05.9 | where we bring evidence, experience, and perspective to make sense of today's leading health challenges. |
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| 0:31.0 | This is Lindsay Smith Rogers. |
| 0:33.4 | Today, Tim Carey of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions talks to Stephanie Desmond |
| 0:38.5 | about the unprecedented case of the mother of a school shooter convicted of manslaughter for the |
| 0:44.4 | horrific crimes committed by her son. While the egregious negligence of this case make it unique, |
| 0:50.3 | Carrie talks about how laws that keep children from accessing weapons could help prevent future tragedies. |
| 0:56.5 | Please note that since this podcast was recorded, a man in Michigan became the first person to be charged under the state's new firearms storage law. |
| 1:05.0 | The law requires gun owners to store firearms unloaded and secured with a locking device or in a lockbox if a miner lives |
| 1:13.9 | at or is likely to visit their property. Let's listen. |
| 1:18.6 | Tim Carey, thanks so much for joining me. |
| 1:21.6 | Well, thanks for having me on, Stephanie. It's great to be back. |
| 1:24.8 | So today I wanted to talk with you about the case of Jennifer Crumbly. In an |
| 1:29.7 | unprecedented situation, she was convicted of manslaughter recently in a Michigan court because her |
| 1:37.5 | son killed students at his school. Talk to me about this case and how unusual it is. |
| 1:48.4 | So the case of Jennifer Crumbly is truly, as you put in your own words, |
| 1:56.9 | unprecedented because never before in the history of this country has a parent been charged for the offenses committed by their child in a school shooting, which is especially saying |
| 2:02.9 | something in America where we have the highest rate of school shootings in any peer nations |
| 2:08.5 | totaling in the several hundreds. But this is the first time, again, a parent has been charged |
| 2:14.3 | in conjunction to what their child has done. And so in order to get a sense of why this case is so important, let's go back to and look at the facts. |
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