Parents should be prosecuted.
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In my county in CA, if you are an adult ( doesn't have to be parent) and leave your gun for a child to use and that child shoots and kills someone or commits another crime, that adult is liable and can be prosecuted.
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I am going to ask my local legislators what our laws are here in Montgomery County, MD
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Great idea. One of the many reasons we all need to support
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We should also address the behavioral and emotional issues that would make a 9y/o want to shoot his sister over a game controller. Why is he so angry? Entitled? Violent?
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I also want to know why a gun was so accessible to a 9 year old.
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Yes, my sister and I fought- hit and bit- but no guns. So we are 64 and 67.
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With the way everybody was saying prosecute the parents I really thought this story included information that it was the parents gun. This is America, it isn't hard for anyone including a 9yr old to get a gun from ANYWHERE not just the home
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Let me be clear: the parents are responsible for their children. Period. It doesn't matter where the gun came from. What matters is the boy had free access to it. What matters is a family dynamic that enabled him to act out on his anger in that way.
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What was going on in that house where that kid thought that behavior was acceptable? I blame the parents here. I am sorry they lost a child, but that's their responsibility they have to live with.
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Def need to keep kids out of the hands of irresponsible parents
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This is sad!! How did this child get his hands on the gun???
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Parents didn’t secure it
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So sad!!! They will probably charge the parents.
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Hope so. A friend of mine- former military and a current police consultant- says there are no gun accidents- only negligence or planned.
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An accident is just negligence with blame attached
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What has this child been exposed to?
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You’ve never seen a child throw a temper tantrum?
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Yeah, no. This was clearly not a normal temper tantrum. What was going on in that house?
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This is more than a temper tantrum. This is something the child has been exposed to or something the child sees as an occurring thing
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Or a child who’s never been taught fantasy vs reality and that moves and video games are not real. But ya know let technology baby sit and leave weapons around the house and then lets blame the entertainment.
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Or the child lives in an environment that shows "violence solves the problem" Or "Violence gets you what you want"
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