With rights come responsibilities. Abdicate your responsibility and there should be some punishment. After all in this case they ended up violating another's right to life, though unwittingly. I would say that if there are other children in the house ban ownership until they reach adulthood.
They minor in question procured a firearm through an illegal transaction without the knowledge or consent of their parents.
Not every time, and I've posted links that even when negligence that results in the death of a child could be prosecuted, it often is not.
In the above, the parents should be charged with involuntary manslaughter. If convicted, they lose their gun rights for life (as well as freedom). I disagree with the slap on the wrist you are suggesting.
How about negligent parents who let their kids drown in a pool, or toilet or bucket? Do we take all these away as well? Or just the guns because you are a gun control fanatic?
Seriously. I had a locking gun cabinet to keep little kids safe before I ever brought the first gun in the house. I've since upgraded to an actual gun safe.
Actually, many hunters have been killed by dangerous game approached prematurely thinking it dead, Lions for instance, that with a last dying breath, either swiped or bit the hunter killing him.
Considering that a good Gun Safe costs less than the price of one good Gun, it is a great investment. A locking Gun room is another great thing to make.
Same thing. Try them for involuntary manslaughter. I don't think there should be special laws for gun accidents, versus others, but there is a certain amount of caution that parents have to take.
I think people here in the modern 21st Century don't realize that it wasn't that long ago when most kids didn't live to their 5th birthday, even here in the United States. It is exponentially more dangerous to be riding and working around horses than riding in a modern car. Modern heath care and medicines save the vast majority of children who would otherwise naturally perish from accidents, illnesses and other problems. I think the Safety Nazis loose perspective, and gratitude. Had they be living in 1917 instead of 2017, they would not be focused on the small number of accidental gun deaths.
