If you left some drain cleaner out in the garage and your kid drank it you wouldn't feel responsible?
I'm not saying the kid isn't at fault here. I'm saying that if you are going to bring your personal protective devices to a place where kids are running around you had better make sure that they are either on your person or secure.
The argument that the firearm was secure in his office is false. It obviously wasn't.
EBUCK
No. I got MY first gun when I was only 6 or 7,and kept both it and the shells (12 gauge) for it in my bedroom.EVERY kid I knew growning up had family guns in a drawer or propped-up in a corner of their houses behind a door. Some were loaded,but everybody in the houses knew where the ammumition for the unloaded ones was. Not a single kid I knew growing up was ever shot with or shot another kid with one of these guns.
If you left some drain cleaner out in the garage and your kid drank it you wouldn't feel responsible?
No,not if the kid was old enough to talk and be warned. Any kid stupid enough to drink drain cleaner needs to be taken out of the gene pool. I'm not saying the kid isn't at fault here. I'm saying that if you are going to bring your personal protective devices to a place where kids are running around you had better make sure that they are either on your person or secure.
And *I'm* saying the Bill of Rights is in more danger from this crap than any children are,and that is is also more important than feral children. The argument that the firearm was secure in his office is false. It obviously wasn't.
Of course it was. It didn't leave the briefcase by itself and get kidnapped while out on a walk. It was stolen by people old enough to know that nothing in that room or briefcase belonged to them,and that they were comitted a criminal act. How far are you willing to take this? Are you prepared to still hold the victim at blame if he had his guns locked in a gun safe,and these criminal children used power tools or a torch to break into the safe to steal them? If not,why not?