What's interesting to me about this scenario is that that in my opinion we're witnessing the depiction of how a serial killer is made. In the film he is having a formative experience of killing and prior to killing the girl he has been fixated on death and taking life (the video of the pig and stealing the gun). He has the hallmarks of a psychopath and seems genuinely flabbergasted by any display of emotion. His dad asks if he will sleep the night that the murder was revealed to the parents and he says "of course". We also see him calm after the murder, walking around, not panicking and seemingly unmoved.
He tells his dad he did it to see what it felt like. The obvious conclusion for the viewer from that exchange is that he felt nothing. Maybe he killed her to see if he would have emotions of some description and he didn't. The parents are either too beaten down by the shock to admit he's a psychopath who needs treatment or are in denial/too scared to face up to it. The dad at one point says he will go to a mental institution if the police become involved. He decides he doesn't want that for his son but we don't know what his reasons are, I don't think it's ever fully resolved.
So in relation to your point about being the parent of a child like this, I wonder if they fully realised how dangerous he was. They seem to think he's a quiet, typical teenager and seem very sure of his intelligence.
Also his attitude was really annoying, acting like he doesn't understand what the big deal is, while still being arrogant and ungrateful, and also goes on enjoying his life like nothing happened.
There's a reason his attitude was like that. He is a psychopath. Normal kids don't go around shooting into other kids using guns made for killing livestock.
I'm not a parent but I think realistically if my child did something like this and seemed completely unaware of the gravity of it I'd have to take action. If I asked him if he felt shame, horror, regret, remorse, pain of any kind and I got no reply, I'd feel I had no option but to let professionals decide how dangerous he is. I couldn't live with an unremorseful killer under my roof, even if it was my son.
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