Father and His 10-Year-Old Son Arrested on Suspicion of Murder

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A 10-year-old California boy reportedly took a gun out of his father’s car Saturday and shot and killed another 10-year-old.

The 10-year-old alleged perpetrator was arrested on suspicion of murder, CNN reported.

Authorities charged the boy’s father, 53-year-old Arkete Davis, with firearm-based felonies, plus child endangerment and with being an accessory after the fact, according to the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office.

Embedded below in this commentary is a polling question: Do you agree with the decision to charge the father?

I’ll let you make that decision. But I want us to look together at some complexities related to this case and constantly changing concepts of parental responsibility.

First, any household with children and guns (or knives or poisons or tall trees or televisions showing hazardous wrestling moves) requires serious parental responsibility.

That’s Job One for parents: to take responsibility for all hazards.

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