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Prosecutors said a state prisons employee didn't properly secure the gun her 12-year-old son used to die by suicide, leading to a first-of-its-kind criminal charge in Snohomish County.
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Sad the kid committed suicide.Prosecutors said a state prisons employee didn't properly secure the gun her 12-year-old son used to die by suicide, leading to a first-of-its-kind criminal charge in Snohomish County.
Wrong state for this law. This is a WA law that went in a while back. This is the first time I have seen them trot it out and try to use it. Kind of hard for me to believe there has not been a single chance to try this since this law went in. Feel really bad for this gal that this happened and that for some reason they are wanting to make an example out of her on top of it. Suspect there is something going on behind the scenes here.Well Baldwin is one case. Not a direct comparison.
Yeah and when that happens money will do what money does... Pay its way out of the spotlight.Sounds like they are trying to make an example out of someone and she was the one they decided to go after. What will be interesting to watch is when someone "famous" or "powerful" does the same thing she did and they dance all around trying to not charge them.
I haven't read the story yet but that's a pretty harsh stance. I think it sounds like she was negligent but, do you know anyone who's lost a child before? Regardless of cause.She put a gun in a kitchen drawer with a kid ih the house. I have no sympathy for her.
You are dealing with a well known troll. They only throw out responses like that to get a reaction out of people. Even if it means dancing on the grave of a troubled kid. Rather sick kind of mind but, its the net.I haven't read the story yet but that's a pretty harsh stance. I think it sounds like she was negligent but, do you know anyone who's lost a child before? Regardless of cause.
I have LONG said one advantage to a safe, any safe, is liability. Decades before that kook was another kook who got another teen to do a school shoot. That freak used a torch to cut open his Grandfathers safe to get guns. Lawyers tried to go after Grandfather and case was promptly tossed due to the fact the scum had to cut open a safe to get the guns.Depends on the family but if you know your kid has issues, you have to take other precautions. That screwed up Lanza bastage in Connecticut supposedly took the guns from a home safe. Given enough time and effort, a safe at home isn't.
I guess I was more reacting to the original point of the thread, which was that she was getting charged with a felony because she left a gun accessible to kids. To me that means hideous negligence. Not properly securing weapons with kids around is pretty much the inverse of good gun safety practices in my book.I haven't read the story yet but that's a pretty harsh stance. I think it sounds like she was negligent but, do you know anyone who's lost a child before? Regardless of cause.