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Please help me understand the idiocy of this decision

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What do you consider the idiocy here? The lack of charges or leaving a gun where the 3yr old could get it?
 
An extremely good example of a mistake turning into tradgedy.


I hope the young lady recovers as fully as possible.
 
A good example of why the gun should be secured when kids are near. I violate this in my home, but in 24 years I have never HAD a kid in my home.
In my vehicle, my gun stays locked in the console box unless it is on my person. So glad I do not have kids.......
 
What do you consider the idiocy here? The lack of charges or leaving a gun where the 3yr old could get it?
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I consider the idiocy in not filing charges, thats the reason I made the post hoping another florida gun owner can confirm what I said about the law leaving guns accessible to minors.
 
What the mother did is stupid and illegal. However, prosecutors have wide latitude in whether they file charges or not. The prosecutor likely believed that the trauma of her son shooting her daughter was more punishment then a $500 fine for a 2nd degree misdemeanor.
 
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Brain dead mom. This hurts us worse than biker gangs.
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I thought biker gangs, terrorists, etc. helped our cause. I think a lot of the momentum in our direction in our direction since 2001 came from people having their bubble busted.

Mike
 
You can't leave a gun within access of a minor? So does that mean if a 12 year old is squirrel hunting that's illegal in FL?
 
We're blaming Mom for having a gun in the car. Question being, did she, or was it somebody else's fault?

Husband/boyfriend?

Speculation on our part doesn't mean it happened that way.

On the other hand - most children under 8 years who do suffer lethal situations are in the direct supervision of dear Mom, who for some reason missed the critical few seconds that the kid(s) got into trouble.

A huge number drown in their own swimming pool or the bathtub. THOUSANDS. Let's not play the anti gunners theme to much.

And many others die with Mom at the wheel of the car. Most accidents are from a lack of good judgement on the part of the driver. Cell phone/drunk/not knowing the rules of the road. And, leaving the kids in the car.

Blaming Mom isn't going to fly in this cultural climate politically, tho, so tread carefully. You have to see there was proven negligence, not proven yet here.
 
As a parent myself, I am loathe to the idea that every misstep by a parent should result in the separation of them from their child(ren). Each case should be carefully weighed and evaluated without passion or prejudice.

It's not always in the best interest of a child or children to be removed from their parents.
 
Sure it's a bad deal and one she will live with forever, what is the answer? More mandatory training? Another Law?
I don't think so, enough of the nanny state.
 
Mom screwed up. Laws like that are meant to be used to prosecute when there are other contributing factors. I say enough punishment based on what we know
 
We don't know that Mom even knew there was a handgun in the vehicle. Again, was it the husbands/boyfriends?

Do you search every vehicle you borrow to ensure it can't happen? We have people forgetting children in the car seat - to their demise - no intent whatsoever to endanger them.

We do not know Mom was negligent. There is not enough proof to say one thing or another. Which one of the posters in this thread would you prefer prosecute this if you were Mom? The one who jumps in and accuses of murder, or, the one who acknowledges who left the gun in the car and whether Mom is culpable in not securing it?

Life if full of stuff like this - we can preach gun handling rules all day, but we can't prevent someone else causing the situation when we never saw it coming.

Innocent until proven guilty would be the prosecutor I'd choose. Somebody else, you'd be in jail already. Which do you prefer?

Who's going to care for the kids? The State? Really? Some would say that would be punishing the children by committing an even bigger crime against them. Foster care is not a good thing.
 
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