Americans have unified in outrage because a zoo killed a gorilla after a four-year-old child fell into its enclosure.
The killing of Harambe the Gorilla at the Cincinnati zoo has resulted in over 2000 people signing a petition on change.org that asks the child's parents to be 'held accountable for their actions of not supervising their child."
While it is ridiculous to question if a gorilla should be put down if it endangers a child's life, as zoo officials have more or less pointed out, there is a bigger issue of parental malaise to discuss.
There seems to be some sort of societal trend among parents who think their kids do not need to be supervised 24/7. Much the same as dogs should be kept on a leash because they can be unpredictable in a public situation, a four or five year old should never be out of arm's reach of a parent.