These charges are not based on safe storage and age-of-possession verbiage.
The parents were notified by the school of the child's concerning violent ideations, twice, the day before and the day of the shootings. Mom laughed off the school's warnings. The parents refused the school's counseling recommendation and the school's recommendation to take the child home for the day.
They are being charged with manslaughter because they dismissed opportunities to prevent the shooting.
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The prosecutor is allowed to be angry. That's OK. She is human. She charged the parents because of their negligence, not her own lack of self-control.