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Originally Posted by mixedmedia
If this question were to find an answer then the gun question would be moot.
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Oooooh... god, the short hairs on the back of my neck just twinged.
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Originally Posted by ratbastid
It's so weird that the observation that perhaps this kid shouldn't have had ready access to firearms is met with, "Oh!? So you BLAME the gun!? Suddenly it's the GUN'S FAULT???
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No, it's called responsibility... something a lot of Americans like to push off onto inanimate objects because they can't handle the concept that responsibility is a behavior. How can we explain this? I grew up around free access to guns and look at my body count: 0.
It doesn't matter if it's a gun, bro. A failure in parental responsibility is the same for all inanimate objects... whether it is over an unlocked gun cabinet, your Xanax and Vicodin stash in the bathroom, car keys lying on the end table, Internet usage while you're not around, the liquor cabinet when you go out of town, your failure to check Johnny's room for dime bags, etc.