8 Sep 2024 5:50 am
Show me where, in the US Constitution, there is a minimum age mentioned related to the 2nd. I'll wait...Cannonpointer » 08 Sep 2024, 3:00 am » wrote: ↑ This is true ordinarily. In this case, we APPEAR to have a kid who threatened a mass killing, was subsequently gifted a rifle, and then did a mass killing.
The guy that gave him the rife might bear some responsibility.
The kid doesn't have a Constitutional right to own a gun - unless his father SAYS he does. If his father says he doesn't, then he doesn't.
And the authorities being mollified by the father that the kid had no unsupervised access to a gun does not provide cover for the father's subsequent gift. They had no way of knowing the dad would turn around and arm the kid.
What we do not know is where that gun was kept or how the kid accessed it. The actual FACTS will be decided by a jury - and if you know where the El Dorado of reliable reportage exists, I will trade you greenies for that information.
They (and you know who they are) WANT us fighting over this. They want us all taking hard, partisan, ideological positions. That's not how real life works. In real life, things are fluid. New facts come in. New light is shed. We don't know nearly enough of the details in this matter to say whether they're charging a great dad who did nothing wrong, or an asshole whose negligence and stupidity got people killed.