Should parents be charged when a child uses their gun?

[Dylan]

[PoS]

Dont patronize me, Dylan.

[Indy]

[The Dude]

[dontworrybehappy]

Yea, no kidding. YOU can justify owning a car in your mind, so it's ridiculous in your eyes to compare the two.

Not so ridiculous for someone who can justify owning a gun.

[The dane]

I realize I'm a bit late in joining this thread, so there's a good chance someone else has already said this, but I don't have the time or the desire to read through 33 pages.

Yes, parents should be charged when a kid uses their gun. Leaving a deadly weapon in a place that's accessible by children is a form of reckless endangerment, and it should be punished as such. But I would only apply this to cases where the kid is very young, not cases where the kid in question is a teenager.

You can own guns to protect yourself if you want, but if there are kids in the house and you don't secure the weapon, then that weapon can become a bigger threat to them than possible intruders are. Hundreds of kids die every year from accidents involving their parents firearm, and something should be done about that.

[Winchester]

[Mr.Bill]

Yeah this is the biggest problem I personally have with the pro-gun crowd.. Most have no answers for the problems our society has with guns, they nothing done.. There's problems, but few on the pro-gun side what to admit that.

School shooting? To address that problem the NRA wants ARMED guards at every single school in the US, ala Mogadishu. Back ground checks to keep mentally challenged people from getting guns? Nah, lets have less checks. Even in this case. It's not that hard, or expensive to require people who own guns to lock them up, especially if there are kids in the house.. But no.

We spend trillions to keep the Muslims from killing us, all the while we look the other way while we kill each other.

I know MANY gun owners, most are very responsible.. But a few others just own a gun because they fell it gives them a bigger set of balls. They and their guns are an accident waiting to happen. Those are the owners who need a kick in the ass..

[Winchester]

[Mr.Bill]

Win, I know a bunch of good, responsible gun owners.. Years ago one of my daughters was good friends with a girl in her school whose father was a avid hunter.. He had many guns, and I had NO problem with her going to their house and staying overnight because he was careful, and responsible. He locked them up, and he preached and taught his kids at an early age his guns were NOT toys and they were to stay away from them.. In other words he didn't think his guns made him a 'man' and he didn't trot them out every chance he got to show them off.

The owners who think their guns are needed to prove their manhood are the problem. Of course there are other reasons for accidents, and other problems. But I think if they passed a few tougher laws, like what you mentioned(more safety courses) and made it mandatory to buy gun lockers if there are children in the owners house would go a long way to improving gun safety and reducing accidents.

BUT unfortunately any discussion of any problems with guns is immediately labeled as an attack on gun ownership. Many say the anti-gun crowd gets hysterical, which sometimes is true.. But the pro-gun does too.