yeah, well personal responsibility is not something that concerns larger society. It’s PERSONAL. /s
Someday we’ll find one. I’m sure all these yahoos are just outliers, and that a desire to own a gun isn’t indicative of anything else about them.
In a very warped way, I kind of understand her confusion. When your entire culture worships guns, displays them all the time, etc etc, I can see a person being like… “wait… in this situation… gun bad? I can’t use gun?”
The NSSF, which I assume is a representative trade industry group, states
Never point your gun at anything you do not intend to shoot. This is particularly important when loading or unloading a firearm. In the event of an accidental discharge, no injury can occur as long as the muzzle is pointing in a safe direction.
So, we’ve established intent to wound, or kill a child. Most societies would believe that this is evil. The traditional legal standard for insanity (M’Naghten) states:
that to establish a defense on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved that, at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was labouring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing; or if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong
Individuals who can mount a successful insanity defense are usually statutorily prohibited from possessing firearms.
Evil, or morally naive*, it amounts to the same thing-- she should not be allowed to possess a gun.
*(In the absence of any evidence to the contrary, I’m going to go with evil)
The problem is, there were not enough "GGWG"s to take out the bad woman with a gun in a timely manner. If only Texas gun laws had been relaxed earlier! /s
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Having lived in DC when the gun laws we DC citizens voted for were thwarted by the federal congress, I find this article bringing up a lot of that old anger and frustration. It was a great city to live in, but the lack of representation was tough. I hope they make progress shrinking the “Capitol” to be the mall and federal buildings and make the rest of the city it’s own thing.
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Yeah, well personal freedom ends when it usurps the right to LIFE, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. You gun fetishists are all about your own freedom, but no one else’s.
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