• SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    And his mom is a police officer.

    And he used one of her unsecured guns.

    In a system where we want to discourage this we need to hold the parents accountable.

    I think a life sentence for each life her son took is fair, for her and her son.

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      19 hours ago

      irresponsible gun owning parents, who literally put firearms into the hands of their homicidal children, need to be held accountable for these tragedies.

      dozens of mass shootings in recent years, especially school shootings, were absolutely preventable. if only these fucking lazy stupid ass adults would stop fetishizing guns for 2 seconds, long enough to store their weapons securely like a sane responsible person. or they could, idk, maybe steer their mentally disturbed crotch goblin towards a more pro-social, harmless activity?

      firearm ownership is a responsibility too few take seriously.

      • GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        11 hours ago

        No. We’ve been having too many random fires lately. The obvious answer is MORE FLAMETHROWERS! Yeah! That’ll fix all the fires!

          • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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            3 hours ago

            This is kind of a bad example because, rhetoric aside, in various situations you can fight fire with fire and in fact it’s the best way to do it. I.e. controlled burns of areas subject to wildfires are used to lessen the amount of tinder lying around the place that could later go up in an uncontrolled manner. You can also put out an oil well fire by blowing the flame out with dynamite.

            So to stretch the analogy further, maybe we ought to start focusing on what (who) ought to be controlled burned.

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              The analogy of controllably burning the right people seems an effective way to restore the democratic order (although it could also be used to tighten the fascist grip I guess).

              Maybe more dynamite actually is the way. Ukraine uses IEDs in mailboxes to take down important people in Moscow for example.

              Not a fan of Luigi’s violent means, but maybe we (or actually they since I’m also not American) have start fighting fire with fire.

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              Very good points. I didn’t know about the oil dynamite thing. Interesting. My previous comment was also slightly sarcastic. Just going along with the post I was responding to haha.

              That last sentence though, agreed. (I’m also not an American, so there’s less guns where I’m from).

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      12 hours ago

      Why not life sentences for grand parents too? Uncles and aunts? Doctors, teachers…

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        If a gun owner’s gun is used in a murder, the owner should be charged with second-degree murder, full stop. When you own a gun, it is your responsibility to keep and secure it properly. I don’t care if it’s stolen or whatever, that gun is ultimately the responsibility of the owner. That’s the social contract when acquiring a device whose sole purpose is to kill.

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          I think stolen is too far as long as the gun owner acts responsibly following the theft and reports it to the police but otherwise, I completely agree. Owning a gun should come with personal accountability for that gun.