10-10-2015, 06:14 PM
(10-10-2015, 04:09 PM)username Wrote: Some of these parents should be charged at least with gross negligence. Not sure what the requirements are for that but the term certainly applies. Even if that mother couldn't fathom her son harming others, he attempted suicide FFS. Why not just leave a bunch of nooses laying around too.
It frustrates me that negligence laws don't pertain, or aren't enforced, in regards to most of the parents of toddlers who shoot themselves and/or others with their parent's loaded guns too. Annually, there are as many or more toddlers who shoot themselves/others as there are mass murderers (though the associated fatalities are higher for the mass murderers).
Should a parent's second amendment rights be stripped because they happen to have a young child or a disturbed adult child in the house? Even if the answer is "no" in either or both cases, I think it's clearly negligent to make/leave guns accessible in the home no matter how many times the young or disturbed person is told not to touch them and whether they've been provided gun safety training.
I'm in favor of a federal child safety storage law (or revision of negligence laws to include such) which could be expanded to apply to gun owners with either young children OR mentally disturbed adult children/relatives/friends in the residence. But, there doesn't seem to be a lot of weight behind pushing something like that through.