Posted on 01/07/2011 11:44:15 AM PST by LurkedLongEnough
I’m sure the father feels the same way that many parents do when they find their child dead. Still strapped in a car seat - left and forgotten in a locked car for 8 hours as the temperature climbs to 130 plus degrees.
We prosecute these parents. Even if it was an accident.
I’m not seeing much difference between that scenario and what the father did here.
Dr. Dad insisted (according to testimony) that his boys fire the full auto weapons. Also (according to testimony) he was advised by staff that this was not a bright idea.
It was his piss poor judgement that caused the death of his boy. I’m sorry for the family but why should three or four other families pay for his stpudity? Oddly, the gun club already did!
No need to duck or run. I left my pistol home in it’s safe today:)
P.S. This just gives all the liberal anti gun awipes here in MA sumthin to rant about. MA hates guns!!
A hard call, indeed. But I have to ask, What purpose is served by sending him to jail? And who benefits?
Father = parent = responsible adult (in theory).
I was in SF. The first time we all fired short, high capacity sub machine guns, it was a very max safety event. I couldn’t imagine a kid firing one. I agree, the dad should of been charged.
I started my daughter with a .22 rifle. It was heavy enough that she couldn't hold it without me providing support for the fore-stock (and thus incidentally maintaining total control over which way it was pointed every second she had her hand on it)
We prosecute them as an act of prevention, to make sure other parents know not to forget their children in cars. It used to happen all the time, parents would leave their children in a broiling car while they run in to get something at the market, or talk to a friend, or whatever. This has been greatly reduced as part of these prosecutions.
How likely is it that some idiot parent will let someone else hand their child a mini-Uzi which fires full auto? There's no preventionary element. If the father was running around saying he had no part in it, that he's blameless, I could see a justice element, but that doesn't appear to be the case.
If there's no prevention, and there's no justice to be found, this is just a malicious dragging out of the pain of everyone for a very tragic event only for the gain of anti-gun groups who will use this to ban children from holding any gun, ban school firing ranges, ban boy scout shooting ranges, etc.
This is such an intensely stupid, obvious problem that anyone who was present and looking on could be blamed. The dad, the kid running the range, etc.
In other words, I see no reason to blame anyone with a promotion company if he wasn’t there, merely because he didn’t think it necessary to explicitly say “Don’t let any 8-year old shoot the Uzi’s!”
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