(June 10, 2015 at 8:50 pm)Minimalist Wrote:Quote:If these idiot fuckers who leave their guns lying about were all charged with negligent homicide, it might help with this sort of problem.
I don't know, Pyr. I suspect that yesterday that same guy would have read a similar story and said "who would be stupid enough to do that?" The problem with guns is that everyone thinks THEY are responsible....until they fuck up just once.
I did write "might," and also went on to discuss how it may not in the part of my post you omitted. I am far from confident that it would prevent things. Other than possibly preventing the same idiot from doing it again. Of course, there are plenty of idiots, and, unfortunately, bullets do not seek out idiots and just act in accordance to where the gun is aimed and the laws of physics.
But regardless of what it would prevent in the future, the idiot should be punished. I suspect, however, that gun nuts will tell us some crap about how bad he must feel. Him feeling bad is not a proper punishment for what he has done. He should not only never be allowed to own a gun again, he should not be allowed to even touch one. And some quality time in jail might also help him see the error of his ways, but he might be so fucking stupid that his idiocy is terminal
It is really just unfortunate that the four-year-old did not kill the idiot fucker instead of himself. Then it would have had a good outcome.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
