Prosecuting the Parent of a School Shooter

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🗓️ 10 September 2024

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Sarah and David discuss the recent school shooting in Georgia, which is raising questions about parental responsibility and the limits of legal liability. The Agenda: —Georgia school shooting —6th Circuit punts campaign finance question to Supreme Court —Body cam footage hasn't done everything we wanted it to —Debating the scope of the Second Amendment Show Notes: —Buckley v. Valeo —McConnell v. FEC —Cruz v. FEC Advisory Opinions is a production of The Dispatch, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch’s offerings—including Sarah’s Collision newsletter, weekly livestreams, and other members-only content—click here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You ready?
0:02.0	I was born ready. Welcome to Advisory opinions. I'm Sarah Isger, that's David French.
0:13.0	And David, this is part two of our action-packed pod but in the course of waiting to take part two more things have happened so we're actually going to start with the school shooting in Georgia that resulted in the death of four people, two students, two teachers.
0:38.0	Within hours, the father of the school shooter was also charged with involuntary manslaughter as well as second degree
0:46.2	murder. This is very interesting it follows of course on the heels of the case in Michigan where the parents in that case were charged and
0:55.1	convicted. They were recently sentenced I believe 10 years was the
0:59.6	sentence that they received. In the case the school called the parents to the school the day
1:09.0	that the school shooting is going to happen.
1:11.2	They meet with the parents, tell them their concerns, the parents sort of not along, yes, understand. They did not take their son home after that meeting and then within an hour or two after that meeting the son had a gun in his
1:27.3	backpack the parents were not aware of that fact or at least there's no evidence that
1:30.8	they were aware that he had the gun in his backpack that
1:32.7	day and he kills several people at his school and again they were charged that was
1:37.4	really its first of its kind here the facts are slightly different.
1:43.0	Here there's threats to the school related to their being a school shooting.
1:47.8	The FBI gets involved, visits the home and talks to what will be the school shooter's father tells you know the
1:55.7	father like here's why we're concerned here are the things that are being said
1:58.7	does your son have access to a gun and the dad says no well yes but it's not loaded you know I'm not
2:09.2	happy about this it makes me angry frankly etc that's sort of where the conversation you know moves on
2:15.8	trails off a few months later it's Christmas he buys his son an air 15 few months after that, you know, from Christmas to now, the sun uses that gun for a school
2:28.0	shooting.
2:29.0	Dad is now charged, as I said, with involuntary manslaughter and second-degree murder. Now in Georgia
2:35.0	second-degree murder is a little bit, well second-degree murder in every state's a
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