• Buelldozer
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    1 year ago

    Why did it upset you?

    Because it’s unnecessary.

    This and this are both failures; gendering the failing parent simply isn’t required.

    Both are a failure to prevent a child from accessing a firearm.

    Yes but they are only similar in the broadest sense; a child grabbing a loaded gun out of Mom’s Purse or Dad’s Nightstand are very different scenarios from a teen who destructively opens a gun safe or steals the key to it.

    Safe storage for firearms is desirable but requiring the prosecution of those who made a good faith effort and failed is not.

    • Because it’s unnecessary.

      Damn well wait until you find out how many gun deaths are unnecessary.

      Safe storage for firearms is desirable but requiring the prosecution of those who made a good faith effort and failed is not.

      Then that prosecution can determine if a good faith effort was made or if the parents were negligent with the storage of their firearms, rather than the usual pro-gun stance of “every solution must be 100% effective (except ours) while never even mildly inconveniencing us and if you try and make it actually happen we’ll kill you”.