The Virginia mother of the 6-year-old boy accused of shooting his first grade teacher was sentenced on Friday to two years in prison for child neglect.
I live in Czechia, where getting a gun license is not easy. It's a 3 step test - theory (for all gun license groups you are permitted one mistake in a 40 question test), gun manipulation (where you show the commission that you know how to handle a gun, with dummy ammo), and gun practice (where you show you know how to shoot and hit the target).
Okay, parent should be held responsible... but how will making parent absent from kids life improve kid's behavior? Punish them some other way. Community service, money, whatever.