Should parents be jailed if their children have access to their firearms and use them in a shooting?

[CTS Tactical]

Same here. But those days are gone. If charging the parents for a minors actions becomes the new standard then the jails will be overflowing. I'm sure this will be applied evenly in St. Louis, Chicago, New Orleans, D.C. and Atl everytime a minor is caught after a shooting.

Those days are not gone. There are still plenty of parents who do a good job raising their kids. The others need a little bit of persuasion. I think things would change rather quickly if these sort of charges started to be the norm. I believe you would start seeing a lot less of this crap from children if parents were charged. I don't think it would take as many arrests and charges as you think. Just make sure the media reports it. What is the alternatve? Do nothing, and continue to watch our country go to hell?
The problem with the cities you listed is that every one of them is run by democrats. There is no hope for democrats.

 

[fotog54]

It is dumb to make a blanket statement that parents should be criminally responsible for their children's actions.

You can't lock up your kids, you can't chain them to the bed. You want to be held responsible for your (insert any age here) year old sneaking out at night and breaking into cars? Not me!

It is why we have a separate "juvenile" justice system.

In this case, you don't give a firearm to this kid! The dad get's no sympathy from me.

 

[Pro Carry 2]

my question is when did it become ok just to shoot someone. when i was in school we fought hand to hand a then it was over. we kept a rifle in the back for deer hunting. yeah i'm old

 

[GAgunLAWbooklet]

Your kid has been questioned by the FBI in the past for threatening to shoot up a school and you supply him with an ar15 rifle, hell yes. You should be charged …

• Colin Gray gave his son an AR-15 style rifle as a gift, two law enforcement sources said. It's unclear when he gave the gift, but it was after authorities interviewed the father and son last year in connection with threats to carry out a school shooting,

This.

Even though Georgia has no law regarding safe storage, and there’s actually no age limit for owning (or possessing) a rifle or shotgun (only handguns), the other laws about acting dangerously and disregarding a deadly risk to other people may apply to criminalize gross negligence like this.

 

[basstracker89]

OP, I'd like you to post the results of the survey

 

[Dirty J]

Depends on if the parents made steps to keep the firearms locked away and secured. Some kids know how to get around their parents. These aren't toddlers happening upon the weapons, they actively sought them

All of this. It’s more complicated than a yes/no.

 

[GAgunLAWbooklet]

But, if it’s not already a crime to supply a violent mental case teenager with an AR-15,

Then Dad doing that “lawful”
-- but reckless and stupid— act would be at most a MISDEMEANOR.



O.CG.A. 16-5-3:

A person commits the offense of involuntary manslaughter in the commission of a lawful act in an unlawful manner when he causes the death of another human being without any intention to do so, by the commission of a lawful act in an unlawful manner likely to cause death or great bodily harm."

 

[Talos]

Tacos, because this isn't a yes/no situation.

 

[BkBigKid]

Normally I would say NO,
In this case based on what the rumors/facts are maybe he should be charged? I don't have all the facts and info to make the judgement!

I don't know the motives!

 

[alexs2006]

my question is when did it become ok just to shoot someone. when i was in school we fought hand to hand a then it was over. we kept a rifle in the back for deer hunting. yeah i'm old

These pussy kids now go straight to extreme violence.