Responsible gun owners

• August 8, 2014
• criminal justice  
• guns  
• stupidity  

We have yet another incident where an innocent person is killed by a purportedly “responsible” gun owner. This time it’s a pregnant woman whose five month old fetus also died. Here are important words from someone else about this incident:

Responsible means that whatever happens with your gun is your fault. Period. You accidentally discharge it and no-one gets hurt? How’s this: big fine, confiscate the weapon involved, lose the right to bear arms for a year for the first incident, forever if you repeat. Someone gets hurt or dies? Jail. Civil liability. Loss of gun rights for life. That’s responsibility.

Will the person who caused the death of an innocent person take responsibility? I’m not holding my breath. It appears the state isn’t going to hold him accountable. Which is only surprising because the idiot killed a “baby” and you might expect the fetus fetishists to be clamoring for his death (the irony being lost on them).

Update: The link in the original TPM article is no longer valid. But a search reveals several references to this matter.