05-22-2018, 07:27 PM
I understand where you're coming from MS. I don't think the U.S. should change any laws to "guilty until proven innocent", but something major definitely needs to be done about parents who make/leave their guns accessible to their children and others.
Just the fact that anyone but the legal owner used the gun to commit a crime would constitute immediate probable cause to at least make an arrest IF a safe storage law was enacted nationally.
All of the most recent school shootings we've covered involved teens using their parents' guns, but I don't see jack shit happening to the parents anywhere in the news.
--Milby, the Illinois teen who took a rifle to school and fired off a round before he was stopped..............used his mom's rifle. Mom, a convicted felon, originally told reporters she had no idea where her son got the gun.
--Rollins, the Maryland teen who killed his ex-girlfriend and wounded a male student at their high school before killing himself..............used his dad's handgun.
--Pagourtzis, the teen responsible for the death of 8 students and 2 teachers in Santa Fe, Texas..........used his dad's shotgun and revolver.
And the other recent public shooters did not get their guns from criminals in some dark alley either.
-- Bouche, the troubled teen who fired off a round from a sawed-off shotgun at his high school in Ocala, Florida, bought the shotgun on the internet to avoid background check and age requirements.
-- Reinking, the naked 29-year-old responsible for mass murder at the Nashville Waffle House, had his semi-automatic rifle handed to him by his father, despite dad knowing that his son was mentally ill and posed a grave danger to himself and others.
National safe storage laws and universal background checks would automatically make all the people who put the guns in these shooter's hands liable and very likely encourage more responsible gun ownership.
Both laws would be fairly easy to enact and wouldn't involve taking away guns from any responsible and law abiding gun owners. Yet, we don't have those laws because the NRA, its most extreme followers, and beholdened politicians put money and guns before people's lives. That's what it boils down to, in my opinion. It's disgraceful.
Just the fact that anyone but the legal owner used the gun to commit a crime would constitute immediate probable cause to at least make an arrest IF a safe storage law was enacted nationally.
All of the most recent school shootings we've covered involved teens using their parents' guns, but I don't see jack shit happening to the parents anywhere in the news.
--Milby, the Illinois teen who took a rifle to school and fired off a round before he was stopped..............used his mom's rifle. Mom, a convicted felon, originally told reporters she had no idea where her son got the gun.
--Rollins, the Maryland teen who killed his ex-girlfriend and wounded a male student at their high school before killing himself..............used his dad's handgun.
--Pagourtzis, the teen responsible for the death of 8 students and 2 teachers in Santa Fe, Texas..........used his dad's shotgun and revolver.
And the other recent public shooters did not get their guns from criminals in some dark alley either.
-- Bouche, the troubled teen who fired off a round from a sawed-off shotgun at his high school in Ocala, Florida, bought the shotgun on the internet to avoid background check and age requirements.
-- Reinking, the naked 29-year-old responsible for mass murder at the Nashville Waffle House, had his semi-automatic rifle handed to him by his father, despite dad knowing that his son was mentally ill and posed a grave danger to himself and others.
National safe storage laws and universal background checks would automatically make all the people who put the guns in these shooter's hands liable and very likely encourage more responsible gun ownership.
Both laws would be fairly easy to enact and wouldn't involve taking away guns from any responsible and law abiding gun owners. Yet, we don't have those laws because the NRA, its most extreme followers, and beholdened politicians put money and guns before people's lives. That's what it boils down to, in my opinion. It's disgraceful.