On Monday, March 12, 2018,  the Los Angeles city attorney pressed charges against a teenagers parents who’s children have made violent threats to their school and peers and for keeping unsecured guns in their home, easy for the children to access.

Feuer’s office said “City Atty. Mike Feuer filed the charges last week against San Fernando Valley parents Robert Christy and Dazo Esguerra accusing both fathers of keeping firearms easily accessible to teenage sons who made threats in February”.

As found on the LA Times, “For goodness’ sake, lock up your guns. There’s no excuse not to,” Feuer said Monday in a prepared statement. “Locking up firearms saves lives and it’s the law. Incidents like these are potential school shooting tragedies waiting to happen. My office will continue taking swift, decisive action against parents who don’t safely store their guns.”

Both Esguerra, 50, and Christy, 59, face three misdemeanor counts of unlawful storage of a firearm and faces up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine for each count.

Feuer’s office informed Both parents are scheduled to be arraigned April 2.

Here is what La Times quoted:

“School safety begins at home, and so does the potential for school tragedies,” City Councilmember Paul Krekorian, author of the city’s safe storage mandate, said in a statement. “Parents who own guns must lock them up to prevent them from falling into the wrong hands. It is intolerable for us as a government or society to allow young people to be endangered in the very places they should feel secure, which is why the City of Los Angeles is doing everything in its power to curb gun violence.”

Teens parents charged with firearms