Question of the Day!

I only have one associated press article on which to base my opinion. I really really don't follow the news. It's hard to believe that the November 2021 intervention was the only time these parents had been called in to the school for Ethan's behavior. Honestly I am not going to chime in on gun controll. But I will say that more behavioral intervention needs to be mandatory in early years and while I don't believe it always makes a difference, whatever led to these events could've been caught sooner with yearly psych evaluations of students.

Parents screwed up it's true. Maybe they could've asked why their son wanted a gun instead of going out and just buying him a weapon. I certainly don't have enough background on these people to say whether the Manslaughter charge the mother was convicted of was warranted.

I don't know if they were abusing their son. I don't know if there were any efforts on the other adults in Ethan's life to find out if the boy's mental health was really neglected or not. Oh yeah not to mention the mental healthcare in this country isn't free and thanks to most "good therapists" that care not taking Medicaid patients, cases like Ethan's may be just as much the fault of "the system" as the parents.

See when you're poor and can't afford "real insurance", firsthand experience tells me that as a Medicaid patient, you get sent to some overworked and undertrained therapist who doesn't give a rat's ass about the broken mind sitting on their couch or chair. That makes you not want to go. Thats also only if your state covers talk therapy as an option for troubled individuals.(Okay, shutting up now. Feel free to yell at me and tell me how wrong I am.)