Not all parents are the same. Some are single parents. Some have little to no resources. While at work, they have no control over their child. If we take that parent away, what happens to the other kids in the home? They’ll go into another system that could end in disaster.
Here’s a list of all mass shootings this year. Yes some are gangs. Some are random stuff. Lots of parties seem to go bad too.
en.m.wikipedia.org
There’s parents that raise their kids as nazis. There’s parents that teach their kids to be hard by beating them daily. There’s parents trapped in addiction.
I’d say we could at least follow a child’s file throughout primary and middle school to see who has a propensity for violence and try to do the humane thing and intervene with therapy and empathy.
But that won’t help the above if they’re home schooled or don’t regularly attend.
Side note. Does anyone else remember early 90’s cops shows, where someone is having a mental crisis and they called the fire department? It was SOP to get the 8ft ladder and pin the subject with it and then cuff them and to the hospital. I guess now it’s cheaper to send a police officer and some bullets.