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Originally Posted by guccilvr
I am in no way saying that guns aren't a problem.. there are plenty of stupid people out there with guns..but we can't just look at an object and blame the object.
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See, that's the kind of thing you hear from the pro-gun crazies, though.
"Wow. That's tragic. That kid probably shouldn't have had a gun, hunh?"
"What!? How dare you BLAME GUNS for this horrible event???"
"Um. Scroll back a line and read what I said, dude."
NOBODY'S BLAMING GUNS. Nowhere ANYWHERE on this thread has ANYONE implied that a gun has free will and can perform horrible acts without a person actually there using it. SEVERAL times on this thread people have been ACCUSED of making such a claim.
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Originally Posted by kutulu
I don't think the father should be criminally liable for this but he does share some culpability in this. You can't let kids have uncontrolled access to guns.
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What do you do, then? You've just said two things that can't inhabit the same space at the same time. Does the kid get locked up until he's 18? At best that delays the problem, at worst, it produces a true psychopath. Do you try the kid as an adult so he can stay locked up for a proper term, for Murder 1? Sentenced to life in prison at the age of 11? That's pretty hard to swallow.
At the VERY least, Dad's guilty of criminal neglect.