A 14-year-old boy has been arrested after allegedly killing his parents and severely injuring his 11-year-old sister at their home in a rural community in Fresno County, California, on Wednesday, authorities say.
The suspect, who is not being identified because of his age, originally called the sheriff’s office after the double slaying and told them someone had broken into their house in Miramonte, attacked his family, and fled in a truck, Fresno County Sheriff John Zanoni said during a news conference Friday.
Detectives later noticed inconsistencies in the boy’s story, according to Zanoni.
“Evidence ultimately showed that he had fabricated the story of a break in and was responsible for using multiple weapons to attack his mom, his dad and his sister,” Zanoni said.
Nah. No one has ever said that. They have, however, suggested regulating certain weapons that have been involved in many of the 559 (as of nov 30) mass shootings in the US in 2023, and requiring extended background checks and waiting periods.
Considering that most gun violence is related to drugs and gangs, I don’t think that that would help. Even quite a few mass shooters passed those checks, or would have passed them if they had existed in their cases.
Guess we need more checks then. Glad we agree.
We do, but what’s been proposed so far will not fix the problem.
Really fixing the systemic problems we have in the US that cause these issues, like lack of mental (and other) healthcare, socioeconomic inequality, and plain old racism, will obviously take decades, but we could at least start on it now instead of knee-jerking about the guns, when gun violence is one symptom of much bigger problems.
None of that is ever going to happen in the US.