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Free speech rights for an LLM is massively dumb but he died from bad parenting. They were told he had major mental health issues by a psychologist, he was behaving erratically at home and school, and they still left a gun lying around.
They didnt just leave a gun lying around, and they're not suing the gun company. To get a gun you have to go to a store that sells deadly weapons and give your money to someone who will tell you that it's a deadly weapon that will kill people. A gun that kills someone is doing exactly what you bought it for.
The parents in this case left an electronic stuffed animal lying around, which they had been given by someone who almost certainly didn't say "be careful, this toy may convince your child to kill themselves.". So they are suing the manufacturer, the same way they would sue a drug maker whose medicine made their kid suicidal or they would sue a therapist who told their kid to commit suicide.
"Oh, you're just a bad parent" may be an accusation of contributory negligence, but it's not an assertion that should keep a third party from having to answer for their actions.
Deadly weapons should be kept in a location that can't be easily accessible by a child with depression.
Anecdotally, I was depressed at his age and my father had guns. The gun locks stopped me the first time. Before I could figure out how to get them off, my mom noticed I wasn't in a good spot and had my dad give the guns to a relative and forbade him from telling me where.
The boy in question had an official diagnosis and they kept a gun in a shoe box in the closet. Guns should never be kept anywhere within access of a child and always under some kind of lock. There are very few cases where the owner of a gun isn't largely to blame when a kid shoots himself imo.