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Originally Posted by Daniel
Just to get this clear - if you have control of something, and if the attempt to use it for its normal purpose could have clearly expected fatal consequences (a car crash, a shooting, etc), then I believe you should be criminally liable for the consequences of allowing that item into the control of someone who mi-uses it. I have no problem if you want to own a gun for legitimate reason (farmer for pest control, hunter for deer whatever other reason your chosen society allows) but if you allow your kid to get hold of it when quite clearly they shouldn't (I think it's clear that a death was a bad thing) then you are complicit.
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So a father hands his keys to a 16 year old who tells him he's only going out with a couple of friends to watch a movie..and ultimately gets into a car wreck that kills someone else..and the father should be held criminally liable?? I cannot wrap my head around this. The father had no expectation or warning of misuse by the kid. How can he be at all responsible??
The same goes for a gun.. if a father has done everything he is supposed to do to train the child of the proper use for a gun, how can he be held responsible when the kid mishandled the gun? It's not the father's brain, it's not the father's finger pulling the trigger.. it's his son. Now if the father had known about some mental instability before hand and just handed him a gun with no prior supervision or training then maybe that would be a case.. but in most cases I feel it wouldn't be.