Newest Gun Control Bill in Virginia

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(01-29-2024, 01:35 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Indeed.  Criminalizing the victim of said crime, or potential crime, seems like adding injury to injury.  If you leave your front door unlocked, and are known to do so, should you be punished when someone burglarizes your home?  What if you own firearms?  

See, and this is the part that I think people aren't necessarily seeing. As you pointed out, it is irresponsible to the point of stupidity to leave a firearm visible in an unattended vehicle. However, it is charging someone for potentially being a victim.

It isn't a 100% comparison, but let's look at this in line with sexual assault. Yeah, yeah, there are laws against public nudity because we are a prudish country. But say the law against public nudity was stated to exist because a woman running around with her tits out would just entice rapists? It would be like an invitation for someone to come along and sexually assault her because she made it available to them. If that was the reasoning for the law we would rightfully say it was victim blaming and fining a woman $500 because her exposed breasts could potentially lead to her being sexually assaulted would be something that many on the left would, rightfully, cry foul over.

Now, the comparison isn't perfect because if someone sexually assaults a woman they aren't then taking the tits and selling them or committing another crime against someone else with them, however the idea of victim blaming remains the same. As with many attempts at gun control there are already laws in existence to criminalize the behavior being targeted, we just aren't seeing the resources put in place to both prevent the crimes and investigate them afterwards. And I am not just talking about law enforcement, I am also talking about teaching people how not to be so ***** stupid as to leave a firearm in the open in an unattended vehicle.