How about charging the grandparents for raising irresponsible parents?

I sure do understand it. Seems a lot of people don't though.

The "why" isn't "why do we still have 2a" or "why wasn't 2a better clarified?" It's "why does it exist?"

It exists because at the time of the founding of this country, we didn't have the National Guard. Our country wasn't a "United" states of America, it was individual states working together to ensure freedom from Britain and a tyrannical government. So when it came time to fight Britain, the people (also known as We The People) rose up together, formed our militias, and brought our own weapons to the fight. We didn't have armories that provided arms for us. We had to use our own. But carrying a firearm in public was ILLEGAL at the time. And so - the right of THE PEOPLE...to keep and bear arms - was adopted.

That is the reason the 2nd Amendment exists.

Was the house locked??

Was the child allowed to enter the house in the past??

Was the child trespassing??

That parents are being charged at all proves there is a slope and your last paragraph describes how slippery it is.

This seems like the equivalent of looking for deep pockets in a lawsuit. If the person committing the crime is a minor then you can also go after the parents for your pound of flesh.

I'm sure there are some cases where the parents truly were negligent and should face some repercussions. Maybe thus is one of those cases. But charging parents ought to be the rars exception and not the new standard.

What YOU just posted and what is constantly the refrain following any shooting event dances all around the issue and any solution to the issue. Laws will not and CANNOT keep people who SHOULD not have guns from getting them. They can steal them and they do. If they are in certain groups they know just how to get them for sure.

Are you saying that if you are a descendant of slave owners that you should pay a price for their sins?

The knife could cut both ways.

There have been only two cases that I am aware of, of the parents being charged...The shooting in Michigan where both parents were in fact convicted and now this one and I believe this father is indeed culpable and should be charged.

Correct me if I’m wrong here. A military style weapon is not a military weapon. A military weapon is fully automatic. You can have the same firepower out of a non-military style weapon that is a semi automatic. I always wonder why we want to treat a weapon differently because it looks different.

This case reminds me of the guy who is given a speeding ticket for going 65 mph in a 60 mph zone when every other driver is going 85 mph. I don't mind holding parents responsible if all parents are prosecuted equally. That is the duty of law enforcement, including the District Attorney.

That is the logic that says "get rid of all laws, because if people are in certain groups they'll know just how to break them anyway."

The reason we have laws, rather than no laws, is so that there can be consequences for our actions.

Yes, you can break a law that says "you shouldn't have a gun" and have one anyway, and then use it to kill someone.

But when you do that, you're now breaking TWO laws. The one where you killed someone AND the one that said you weren't supposed to have the gun in the first place. When this happens, it's easier to convict the criminal, AND it results in a stiffer penalty - imprisonment, fines, community service, parole - whatever it is, it's harsher because you broke that "you shouldn't have that gun" law.

Guns don't kill people. Only people kill people. So stop letting people have the guns? The guns won't shoot themselves if they're just sitting in a lockbox in a warehouse of a gun factory, afterall. That would be the logical conclusion to that argument.

The pro-2a rhetoric is to hold onto their firearms no matter what, for no reason other than they read on a 200+year-old piece of paper that they had the right to hold onto it, and the NRA has pushed their agenda to ensure they don't go bankrupt. They need sycophants and followers even more now than ever.

If someone wants a pistol in their home for self-defense, or a rifle for their farm to keep the coyotes away from their chickens, or a hunting rifle to shoot for their supper, I'm all for it. 100% pro-gun.

But there is no reason for any civilian to bring a firearm to a school, unless you plan on killing people with it. There is no reason for any civilian to bring a firearm to a church, unless you plan on killing people with it. There is no reason for any civilian to bring a semi-automatic rifle anywhere, public or private other than the shooting range, unless you are planning on killing people with it.

Guns are the tools of death. Unlike a knife, a gun can't gut a fish. Unlike an ice pick, a gun won't cleanly cut a chunk of ice off a block for your mai tai. Unlike a car, a gun won't get you from point A to point B. All of these things can be used as weapons. But of this list, only the gun was designed specifically to kill.

If you're not planning on using it for its specific function, then you shouldn't be in possession of it at all.

And let’s not forget the elephant in the room: a society that has, for the most part, removed God from the civil society.

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Are you a psychiatrist who can perform a diagnosis without even talking with the person? Did you consider that the problem may well be the parents?

A person’s life is far more valuable than anything else. There is nothing more valuable. Please stop putting an inanimate object valued above a person’s life/soul.

And - do you not live in The Villages? There's a new church being built every year here. God didn't invent guns. God didn't order Moses to bring down an 11th commandment "thou shalt keep and bear arms." God didn't instruct Jesus to teach his disciples how to shoot an AR-15 with a bump stock. God didn't say to Eve, "This is Eden. Enjoy all the guns, but don't eat the apple."

God has nothing to do with any of this.

God has everything to do with this. Bullying is the culprit in so many of these shootings and how many parents are teaching the loving one another precepts of the Bible anymore? Why isn't bullying being addressed with strong punishments?

Are you aware how many criminal gangs have moved into this country recently, are infiltrating societies and cities and are now coming to light and beginning to use their tactics?

If you think the local National Guard has the resources to control these growing forces in communities, I believe you are sadly mistaken. Gangs recruit and grow members constantly and they are vicious. You are welcome to keep a lady-like pistol for protection, most of us are interested in keeping a weapon capable of destroying any planned attacks to harm our families and dismantle Western Civilization.