Georgia Jury Convicts Apalachee Shooter’s Father

I can’t imagine giving a 14 year old unfettered access to any gun, unless maybe you’re way out in the sticks someplace. On top of which the kid had obvious mental health issues. Dad bears some responsibility for that degree of negligence.

If the father is convicted and the son isn’t, what chance does the son have at trial seeing he is already presumed guilty?

Rifle…not pistol…excuse me

He was rightly and justly convicted, and he should get the full 180 years in prison. He deserves every year of it.

It’s about time we hold irresponsible parents accountable for their actions which allow kids to get their hands on deadly weapons especially if they are problem children with known mental illness or prior acts of making threats or having engaged in violence.

When the rest of these deadbeat parents see other deadbeat parents getting long prison sentence it will sink into their thick skulls that letting deadly weapons just lie around the house for children to get their hands on is going to get the parents into big trouble.

In many countries like Japan, and many countries in Europe you must keep all firearms locked up in a State approved safe subject to surprise inspections. Some even go so far as to demand they be disassembled before putting them in the safe. Foreign countries have a much lower gun theft, homicides, mass murders and accidental shootings which prove beyond all doubt that this is the way “civilized societies” work

Carrying a firearm is often outlawed as well in most countries because when comparing homicides in U.S. States with concealed carry far outnumber the deaths in Foreign States where concealed or open carry is outlawed. The George Zimmerman incident was a good example of a death (Trayvon Martin) that never would have happened if Zimmerman had not been allowed to be armed and to make the case even further Zimmerman himself was almost killed later in a road rage incident by a nut case that was armed. In the first instance Zimmerman was emboldened by being armed and confronted a vicious street thug that at the time was committing no crime but merely peering into a window. The police dispatcher told Zimmerman to stay in his car until the police arrived but Zimmerman who was much smaller than Martin was emboldened by being armed which led to a confrontation that should never have happened. In the second case a hot head tried to shoot Zimmerman in a road rage incident.

And one of the sickest parts of the original Zimmerman incident is when he auctioned his pistol off and got big bucks out of it from a sicko bidder that wanted the gun as a collector’s item, most likely because it was used to kill a minority. The sickness that seems to permeate U.S. Society these days often dwarfs that of even an old-fashioned poorly made and ridiculous horror movies like the “Texas Chain Saw Massacre”.

In the U.S. life is considered cheap and expendable, 44,000 people a year die from gunfire, and we even ignore the 1,500 child deaths a year from guns just laying around the house loaded. No number of dead children is too great a price to pay because the Far Right will scream this is a necessary sacrifice on the depraved altar of zero-gun control.

With more and more parents going to prison when kids get blown away from unsecured firearms this just may start to finally change but it was the wrong way to make it change because a “safe storage” law passed on the Federal level would have saved thousands of lives and kept a lot of parents out of prison.