Roadrunner
Roadrunner
In another post you say you left semi-autos and pumps around children too young to cycle a round.I was taught that an accident, by definition, is unforeseeable.I think the parents could be charged with negligence. However, it's still a tragic accident. Since no one intended it to happen, it's an accident by definition. As far as people only having guns in the house because they are planning to shoot someone; that's just a foolish statement.
Anyone can see that leaving a gun around kids will eventually result in FORSEEABLE consequences.
Therefore, most of these cases are not accidents, they are criminal neglect.
Bull shit through and through. I have raised 5 kids, the youngest is still at home. I have always had a loaded gun or two in the home. What use is an unloaded gun or a gun locked up?
No one was killed, no one was ever injured, no gun went off accidentally or by itself. It's a matter of intelligence and parenting. If your kid got a hold of a gun and killed himself or someone else, then that's Darwin's Law and perhaps your idiot defective genes shouldn't be loosed on the world anyway.
That is responsible, I am sure you moved them when the kids got older, or taught them gun safety.
I don't at all understand what problem you have with prosecuting negligent people who leave loaded guns where untrained kids can get to them.
All the guns in my house are loaded, and there are several in corners and on dressers.