The parents let the kids hang out and smoke and drink in a camper, unsupervised most likely. And the parents don't keep their guns in a place their kids can't access? This isn't about weed, this is about children being raised poorly and warning signs of mental illness not being reported.

I've actually been shot as a child because a friend's parent left a loaded gun out in the open with unattended children. I still firmly believe that gun violence, whether accidental or purposeful, is an issue of parenting, community, and culture.

Maybe if these boys were raised to be respectful of human life, taught the dangers of greed of violence, and had some sort of moral and ethical values instilled in them this case, and many others like it would not have occurred.

This is Alaska, we don't want to hear anti-marijuana, or anti-gun rhetoric. The majority of us are long tired of those debates.