02-22-2021, 02:00 PM
(02-22-2021, 01:52 PM)Au165 Wrote: No, again I am offering up ways for irresponsible owners to be more responsible since knowing where your weapon seems like a basic tenet of responsibility. What if the kid accidentally shoots his friend in the head instead? Why should that other family have to go through that because you can't know where your gun is? That sure seems like lives are ruined going forward, doesn't it?
I want to solve this problem by demanding accountability.
Yes, but you're making the penalty huge. With your proposal a family who has a child commit suicide with the family firearm get the enjoyable salt in the wounds of now being prosecuted for a felony as well. You want accountability, but you also want to criminalize non-compliance with what you think constitutes what is responsible enough. You're creating criminals out of people who would otherwise never break the law. Any law that would do so is a bad law.
