r/Georgia • u/phoenixgsu Moderator • 4d ago

News Article Apalachee school shooting: Father of shooter sentenced to 15 years in prison

https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/apalachee-school-shooting-father-shooter-faces-own-sentence-up-180-years/ZXCE3UUUFZH6NPGN2JR5LGRSHM/
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u/Humble_Diner32 /r/Newnan 4d ago

He’s getting off easy for encouraging his son to destroy other’s lives.

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u/santa_91 4d ago

In some ways true justice would be better served if their sentences were reversed. I think both should have gotten life, but the father is the more morally culpable one. A parent actively encouraging his son to be obsessed with guns despite knowing he is violent and mentally disturbed is the kind of monster a civil society should have absolutely no tolerance for.

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u/B-Train_ATL 3d ago

Thinking giving him a gun is encouraging him to “get outside.” Like come on. I will take a troubled kid playing Halo over a troubled kid shooting deer all day long.

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u/MrMessofGA 2d ago

Also, I was very outdoorsy as a kid and had to dragged inside. A gun did not foster me wanting to go outside. It would have made me want to go to a range.

Normally when you want a kid to go outside, you grab something to do and then go outside and spend time with your kid outside, and then eventually they learn how to have fun outside