this 14-year-old boy who lives with his father a year ago when he was 13 made online threats to commit a mass shooting at a school the boy and the father were called in front of the authorities the FBI local police they were questioned and interviewed and at that time the authorities told the father look this is what your 13-year-old son said online he's threatening to go into a school and shoot up people that happened a year ago this what's important five months after the 13-year-old after that happened the 13-year-old and the father were questioned five months after that after the father learned that his 13year old son made online threats to commit a school shooting five months after that the father bought his 13-year-old now 14-year-old son a Christmas present he bought his 14-year-old son in AR-15 forget about what kind of firearm he bought his son a gun for Christmas but it uh the authorities came out yesterday and arrested charged the father and said that the father knowingly allowed the boy to possess the weapon and that the father's charges are directly related to the actions of his son and there is reporting that the son had unsupervised action access to these Firearms to his Christmas present I I I worry I worry about us going down this road of charging parents for the actions of their kids especially when their kids are adults um I I I worry that um uh minority parents may feel the brunt of this that lowincome parents uh may feel the brunt of this there are real concerns here uh I worry that young black men out there committing crimes with guns there's a preponderance of that that all of a sudden we're going to start hauling their parents into court uh and and try to adjudicate how they are raising their kids you can see where this opens up a whole can of troubling issues and by the way charging parents uh for firearm crimes that their kids commit is rare it's becoming more common when we talk about underage children he'll have his day in court as someone who believes in gun rights um I I when when people commit crimes with guns man I want them put away because they give all of us who believe in gun rights a Bad Name a dad like this a father like this a father as irresponsible as this you find out your kids a your your 14 yearold kid is a threat to commit a mass shooting at a school you find that out and you don't do a damn thing for him you don't get help for him and then by God Christmas comes along and you buy him an AR-15 for Christmas man 54y old father I'll defend your right to carry a gun and defend yourself but that's that's wrong you need to be held accountable for that