[Veggie Todd]

Son, we heard that you’re having some behavior problems at school. Here, we bought you this gun.

[babble-on]

Pretty much exactly that.

[Steely Tom]

Son, we heard that you’re having some behavior problems at school. Here, we bought you this gun.

In his book People of the Lie, M. Scott Peck describes nearly that exact situation, in which a teenager suffering from clinical depression was given a pistol as a birthday present by his parents after he had expressed a desire to kill himself.