comic boy wrote:thegreekdog wrote:ooge wrote:Night Strike wrote:ooge wrote:BigBallinStalin wrote:Analogous thinking can be misleading.
So can blindly following and Ideology
Do people have the right to protect themselves? The right to life?
Life,liberty and the pursuit of happiness. your life my life are more important then your liberty my liberty...that is why the founders put it in that order. I cant take credit for this idea a father of a slain child from Newtown said it.
If only it was a crime to shoot people...
Serious question , in cases of accidental firearm deaths do people in the USA ever get prosecuted for manslaughter or something similar. Also are there laws protecting the families of gun owners , I know children have been killed whilst playing with firearms , are the parents ever prosecuted for neglect.
Yes - sometimes. Neglegent Homocide, but that's all up to prosecutors.
http://www.ktxs.com/news/Neighbors-mour ... index.html
Here you have a 4 year old girl, shot in the head through a wall, by an adult who was "cleaning a loaded gun." Not a crime, apparently.
Each week occupy the NRA has about 10 news stories shared with us about kids "accidentally" killed by adults or teenagers. It's obviously not common, given the size of America, but that's 10 deaths a week that can easily be prevented.