Quote (Goomshill @ Sep 6 2024 01:36am)
A murder charge requires concurrence and purpose. At the moment the father gave his son access to the weapon, he had to foresee and intend that his son would commit murder with it. Essentially that is the charge of contact killing- you can be found guilty of murder even if you did not pull the trigger, if you purposefully set in motion the events and had the intent to have someone killed at the moment you set it in motion (not at separate times, not by unforeseeable consquences).
If parents don't intend for anyone to be murdered, and don't purposefully give their child access to a gun, and there's no foreseeable likelihood that he'll commit murder, and indeed the odds were probably 99% that he wouldn't- and the state itself already cleared him of any immediate suspicion and school returned him to class- how do you construct those elements of the crime? The answer, of course, is simple. That American law and civil liberties are a farce and nothing I said matters and they already decided to try this kid as an adult before even getting a basic psychological profile and decided to try the parents of the next school shooter months before it took place
Sir if you'll excuse me, Given the climate We live in. There was never a 1% chance., It is almost a Foregone Conclusion At this point. He is fourteen, he is completely cognizant of what a gun would do in his hands. I do not agree with the sentiment that a 14 year old is not cognizant enough, aware Enough too Understand that a gun in the hands of a bad person can lead to Catastrophic events.