02-22-2021, 02:10 PM
(02-22-2021, 02:00 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: 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.
The penalty should be huge. I want to criminalize negligence, especially when the negligence leads to loss of life.
Let’s flip this though. If asking people to know where their guns are and to keep them away from children is too much. What is an acceptable ask in terms of gun ownership responsibility that could actually spur changes in current gun ownership behavior?
