(April 14, 2019 at 12:45 am)onlinebiker Wrote:(April 13, 2019 at 10:52 pm)Fireball Wrote: It all fails with enforcement. There are a ton of laws on the books for that shit. Letting that mom off the hook just tells everyone else that they can be lax. It didn't start with her screwing up. It's been going on for decades. Hell, I keep my stuff locked up even though the youngest son is almost 30 YO. I'm not worried about my family shooting each other, but about people other than them potentially stealing them. I have a 500 pound safe to hold them. It was a bitch for my other son and me to get into position in the house. There isn't a crack head that'll be able to move it, what with it being anchored to the floor, and the anchors only accessible when the door is open.
Mom isn' t getting " off the hook".
She' s got to live with that shit forever.
I suppose if she was a psychopath - then jail would be appropriate.
She should lose her guns - and the right to own them.
As far as " deterance to others" - do you really think most people would find jail more of a deterance than their child dying of a gunshot? Most mothers I know would willingly do jail time to prevent such a thing. Or, at least I would like to think they would.
Am I wrong?
That's the flip side of the coin, for sure. Then shouldn't the laws for leaving firearms accessible to kids be dropped if they're only going to be selectively enforced? That would remove the hypocrisy.
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.
