johnandersonoutdoors
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I don't want to see some strict gun storage laws or new restrictions on the types of guns that we can legally own in this country.
With that in mind, I think the time has come that we punish parents/guardians when their MINOR child commits a crime with a gun that the parent/guardian allowed them to access. I would not propose a storage requirement, but each parent/guardian will need to decide for themselves how they raise their children and handle their household. If you are raising well balanced children, leave your guns easily accessible around the house and nothing bad ever happens, then great. If you are raising a kid who has no respect for the lives of others, and you allow unsupervised access to your guns which the child takes advantage of and commits a crime, then the parent/guardian needs some sort of jail/prison sentence.
Again, I am just beginning to think about this and I don't have kids of my own and may never. This is no different than a straw purchase situation. You can be held criminally responsible if you straw purchase for a known criminal. If a parent/guardian allows unfettered access of guns to a MINOR child, then they need to see the inside of a prison when that child commits murder with parent/guardians' gun.
Parents raising good kids might choose unlocked guns or very flimsy storage cabinets. Gun owning parents who notice their child is a piece of crap might want to step it up to something more secure like a true safe. I believe the adult (though he was unrelated to them) who supplied Columbine shooters, Eric and Dylan, got in trouble. This should be no different for parents/guardians who allow unfettered access and then their child commits a serious crime with the gun.
I know this can be a slippery slope and I am spitballing here, but come on parents, these children are your responsibility. You may not be able to stop them from being a crappy kid, violent, mentally unstable, but if you have one of these "types of kids" that lives in your house then you better secure you guns. Remember, you made the choice to have this kid.
With that in mind, I think the time has come that we punish parents/guardians when their MINOR child commits a crime with a gun that the parent/guardian allowed them to access. I would not propose a storage requirement, but each parent/guardian will need to decide for themselves how they raise their children and handle their household. If you are raising well balanced children, leave your guns easily accessible around the house and nothing bad ever happens, then great. If you are raising a kid who has no respect for the lives of others, and you allow unsupervised access to your guns which the child takes advantage of and commits a crime, then the parent/guardian needs some sort of jail/prison sentence.
Again, I am just beginning to think about this and I don't have kids of my own and may never. This is no different than a straw purchase situation. You can be held criminally responsible if you straw purchase for a known criminal. If a parent/guardian allows unfettered access of guns to a MINOR child, then they need to see the inside of a prison when that child commits murder with parent/guardians' gun.
Parents raising good kids might choose unlocked guns or very flimsy storage cabinets. Gun owning parents who notice their child is a piece of crap might want to step it up to something more secure like a true safe. I believe the adult (though he was unrelated to them) who supplied Columbine shooters, Eric and Dylan, got in trouble. This should be no different for parents/guardians who allow unfettered access and then their child commits a serious crime with the gun.
I know this can be a slippery slope and I am spitballing here, but come on parents, these children are your responsibility. You may not be able to stop them from being a crappy kid, violent, mentally unstable, but if you have one of these "types of kids" that lives in your house then you better secure you guns. Remember, you made the choice to have this kid.