Imagine being the parent of a 15-year-old boy and, upon hearing that your son continued to get in trouble at school – in a pattern that clearly demonstrated something was wrong, joking with the son, “You’ve got to be better at not being caught.”

Now imagine that same parent buying that child a handgun upon being asked, as an early Christmas present. You buy a 15-year-old a nine-millimeter handgun! (As alleged) Any 15 year old that asks for a 9 mm handgun as a gift has something, somewhere, misplaced in their head, something is wrong.

Then, after this very troubled teen kills four of his classmates and puts seven others in the hospital, you as a parent – knowing your child (he’s 15!) needs you, for whatever, – decide instead to run, possibly to Canada, because people have looked into all you did.

Now imagine crying in court upon hearing that your bail is set so high that you are going to sit in jail awaiting trial and that makes you cry. 

Imagine how much sympathy Jennifer Crumbley got today from CNN’s ex-law enforcement officer Charles Ramsey in discussing the bail hearing and ultimately, the trial:

“This is a highly publicized case, so the selection of a jury is going to certainly take time to make sure you don’t have people that already have a bias against the parents one way or the other.

“And I’m sure that will take place, that will happen. They’ll find a jury that will be able to render a decision based on facts and evidence, but they’re not going to be able to avoid the court of public opinion — that’s the world we live in now.

“It will be highly publicized, a lot of information will be put out there, some will be accurate, some will not be accurate in terms of evidence and things of that nature.

“I don’t know how you avoid that sort of thing but certainly I could hear it in her voice as well, sounded as if she’s crying, but it is a little late for that.”

“There are people that are crying over deaths of their children right now, the children laying in a hospital with gunshot wounds,” he continued. “I mean, those are the kinds of people that personally my empathy is with them, not with the [Crumbley] parents right now.

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