What is the responsibility of the parents of mass killers in the United States?

Millions of American parents worry every day about their children being victims of a mass shooting. “But a different kind of nightmare also hangs over the heads of a much smaller group of parents who fear that their children, almost always boys, will one day find themselves pulling the trigger,” highlighted The New York Times.

As more and more mass shootings are perpetrated by teenagers or very young adults, investigators and researchers are focusing more “on the parents of the perpetrators of the mass killings, to try to understand how their offspring became radicalized and what kind of intervention could have prevented the passage to the act”.

Criminal responsibility

And they ask themselves more and more frequently whether “Parents who ignore