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Originally Posted by crockett
If the irresponsible actions of a gun owner allow a crime to be committed
However I guess having to be responsible for your gun is crazy talk..
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Okay...fair enough.
Now tell me what do you think are "irresponsible actions"?
Having a gun that isn't locked away for instance? (might be a good idea to keep them locked up..I don't...mine is loaded and close at hand in case anyone ever makes the mistake of coming into my home at night)
Not watching over a teenage boy close enough? I'm assuming that his parents work and don't spend 24 hours a day watching him...matter of fact, doesn't that sound kind of weird that a parent would do that? I'm not really sure how you could do that. When I was a teenage boy/young man, there was no way that mommy and daddy knew half the shit I did.
Does that about cover it for irresponsible actions?
"Hi Mr. and Mrs. Killers Parents. We know you are in shock and grief and your whole world is in shambles...but we're going to put the icing on the cake and arrest you on top of everything else. You were obviously irresponsible."
I don't know if I'd want to do that.
Has anyone even heard whose gun it is anyway?
I'm thinking he probably took his daddy's gun...but we won't know until we find out the facts.
Just not sure what else can be done for this sad situation.
You can't "punish" the killer...he's already dead.
I don't even know how old he is.
Maybe that whole "irresponsible parents" thing might be worth consideration IF a kid is 12 or under.
After that? Young boys are fucking hoodlums. Destructive, "invulnerable", and dangerous.
This kids parents were at work, thinking nothing was wrong. And then suddenly...EVERYTHING is wrong.
Now some young man is dead (a victim)...and the shooter (another young man himself) is dead.
Was he bullied? Who knows. But something damn sure snapped.
Now we want to put his parents in jail? Man...talk about your "slippery slopes".
If I was a kid, and heard on the news that I could KILL people and not get in trouble...but my parents (who piss me off with my teenage angst all the time) would take the rap, I'd be thinking "Hell yeah!"
Holy hell guys...that might be opening the floodgates for teenagers committing mass murder.