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If the school had resisted then they would have contributed to the hate filled environment that led to his murder.

Certainly we don’t know any details, but it sounds to me like the family wants to profit from their sons death.

Dirtbags.

What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.

Typical Sheehan Syndrome. Blame everyone except the actual killer

Exactly why is it not the parents’ responsibility to tell their son that he is not going to dress like a girl?

From the Associated Press:

King, an eighth-grader at E.O. Green Junior High School, was shot in February. Classmate Brandon McInerney pleaded not guilty to the shooting last week. He was charged as an adult and also faces a charge of a committing a hate crime.

The family’s claim, filed last week in Ventura County Superior Court, said administrators and teachers failed to enforce the school’s dress code when King wore feminine clothing and makeup to school.

His parents, Dawn and Gregory King, said faculty members knew their son had “unique vulnerabilities” and was subject to abuse because of his sexual orientation.

King was a ward of the court and living at a shelter for abused, neglected and emotionally troubled children at the time of the shooting.

The really sad thing about this whole incident is the fact that the shooter, a 13 year old child, had such hatred ingrained in him against gays, that he felt it necessary to kill King. I wonder about the influences in his life.

Missed in this also is the question, where the hell did a 13 year old get a gun to bring to school?

OK, why is it (again) not the responsibility of the guardians to make sure a child is dressed appropriately to go to school? 

There is also a question of why the child was a “ward of the state.” This could possibly (not definitely, though) indicate that we’re not exactly talking about the Parents of the Year.

For, as sanity notes, either the victim’s parents or the killer’s parents.