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(This is one great thing we learned from the O.J. saga - can't get them in criminal court, go after them in civil court.)
Create that kind of enforcement and Canuck is right; you'd see far less of this.
Sooner or later, they'll get the bugs worked out and you won't have anything to bitch about any more. Of course, knowing you, you'll just find something else.
Replace gun with "car" and then remember that no one is willing to be inconvenienced to make cars less deadly ( lower speed, harder to license, less texting ) and you will quickly realize that all this crying over gun crimes ( which are relatively rare compared to auto crimes/deaths ) is pissing in the wind over a liberal talking point.
GUNS BAD, ANYONE CAN GET GUNS, BAN GUNS CRIME GOES AWAY.
none of these statements are true
Like what, for example? What changes to social policy could have prevented this?
Leaving them laying around where an unhappy family member or common burglar can take them is the height of irresponsibility.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooehGnxcU…
charles, amoklauf shootings are just a weekly fact of life in The Greatest Country on Earth. a never ending parade. no politician will ever do anything about it, but odds are good you won't be a victim if you stay locked inside your house watching TV. and you don't own a gun yourself.
Likely true. Also, if people knew they'd get a hand cut off for stealing a car, or breaking into a home, we'd probably have fewer thefts and burglaries.
The question is: do those punishments fit the crime (or the irresponsible behavior)? Most people, I believe, would agree they don't. I'm sure that even people who commit premeditated murder don't always (or even usually) get life sentences, so it would be quite a stretch to get much support for life sentences for people who are a "negligent accomplice" to murder.
It seems reasonable to me that there should be some kind of accountability/punishment for the irresponsibility of not keeping a gun locked up if use of that gun by someone else leads to a murder. But I'm not sure what would be appropriate.
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The 17-year-old Butler had been suspended from school Wednesday for driving his mother's car on the Millard South football field a few days earlier.
The teen went home disappointed with the suspension, investigators said, but gave no indication that he was angry.
He spoke with his father — a respected detective who worked the evening shift, and who soon left their apartment for 40 minutes to run errands.
The teen elected to stay behind.
Authorities say he posted a suicide message on Facebook, then entered the bedroom to grab the police duty weapon and two 15-round ammunition clips from a shelf in the closet.
Butler then broke into the apartment's garage — his father had locked the car away after the weekend joyride — and drove back to school.
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Moe unsurprising evidence that Americans view cars as lethal enough to lock up away from boys, but guns and ammo should be easily accessible. "Well, Junior's going to have a hard time texting and firing at the same time, isn't he?"
You're also forgetting the fact that most gun owners have firearms for their protection. If you're sitting at home, alone, and someone breaks in, a firearm in triple-locked safe, with the ammo in another triple-locked safe on the other side of the house isn't going to do you much good. Owners of guns have to do a risk analysis about where they store their guns. Just because guns can be gotten to by a teenager doesn't mean that the gun owner is not responsible.
Yes, you could get into my safe, but you'd really, really have to try. As you mention, people have guns for security that they want near at hand, but there are secure solutions for that problem too.
Rights come with responsibilities. If you can't store firearms safely, don't own them.
If you are home alone and that fearful, then get your gun out of the safe and keep it handy. And when you leave the house, either take it with you or lock it away. A gun on the nightstand won't defend anything when nobody is there to use it! Don't leave it handy for the common burglar to steal.