So this is really about gun control.
That is a kid who can't mind that causes gun deaths because it finds a gun in the house?
But lets say an old lady with arthritis spills some pills. She doesn't find them all to pick them up.
The cat licks one and dies.
Now lets say it isn't a cat that eats it. It is some type of picca eating kid.
Picks that white pill up. Or perhaps it is pink or brightly colored like candy. Muses at it a second and puts it in its mouth like communion? Falls over dead. Or ends up in a hospital and racks up $200.000.00 in unreimbursible critical care expenses?
Is the elderly American guilty of the same type of felony as a parent who failed to lock a gun and hide the key? I mean how could you say that? There was no intent on her part.
But some parents have bad intent. Some parents are rotten apples. So do you have to create broad brush laws that dragnet the innocent too?
Yeah, that is a problem, creating broad brush laws that dragnet the innocent, in order to sum certain prosecute the bad apples? If you were really serious about prosecuting the bad apples, there would be less bad apples then there are today.
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