Having said that, where does it end? If a parent gives a child a glass canning jar of pickles and the child uses that glass jar to fatally slice people (after breaking it to create razor-sharp edges), is the parent guilty of manslaughter for providing the glass jar? We could say the same if a parent gives their child a pillow and the child used his/her pillow to smother another child to death. Of course we have to think about other sharp objects such as kitchen knives and landscaping implements (such as axes and machetes). Is a parent guilty of murder if their child uses a kitchen knife or ax to murder people? What if the parents bought their teenage child a car and the child uses that car to run people over and murder them? Do we imprison the parents in that case as well?

Heck, an adolescent could even use a robust plastic bag to smother someone or common household chemicals to poison someone. Do we thus require parents to convert their homes into giant toddler-proof structures where adolescents and teenage children cannot possibly access anything that they could use to maim/murder someone?