I posted this in regards to the Ding Dong Ditch murderer in Texas
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20608751

It is the result of irresponsible parents who are guilty of negligence homicide.

Nope, not in my estimation.

Jail time is necessary.

I spent 45 years as a peds NP. Few things are as infuriating as this kind of preventable death.

I always asked about access to weapons when I did well child visits, and further advised parents to ask the parents of their children's friends the same question so they might diminish the chance of getting a phone call nobody wants. Quite commonly, a parent's eyes would widen in shock at this suggestion, and they'd say, in horror, "Oh my God, I never thought about that!"

I spent over 40 years as a mental health professional working with kids, adults, families.

With any hint of mood disorders or other pertinent diagnoses I always asked about guns.
Made sure no guns were present in the home during treatment with me.
I insisted on knowing where the guns in the home had been placed and followed up to verify.

During decades of being a therapist, I never had one suicide or homicide.
I ran a tight ship when it came to guns.

Yes parents and families are often in great denial.

Trigger locks are strictly an anti-theft device.
Never put a trigger lock on a loaded gun.

But don’t most guns at least have a safety?

Quick story:
My wife was an in-classrom social worker in schools with ED & BD kids.
One February, she asked me to take a day off and go on a field trip to Chicago's Museum of Science & Industry.
I had 3 boys I took around and one (10 years old) kept asking really smart questions.
At the end of the visit we get on the bus and the kids are oohjng & ahhing seeing the waves hit the breaker wall on the south shore.
I told them sometimes the spray comes up, freezes on the road and they have to close it until they can salt it.
This 10 yo says "Well, the water holds heat better than the land so there's more pressure so the wind always blows toward land."
I asked my wife what he's doing in special Ed. She says "He can't read.".
Kud did his math homework the last 60 seconds of every day & gets 100% on every test & assignment. But, can't read.
About a month later, she tells me that kid is in the hospital.
His parents thought it be fun, so they had him drinking shots of Jack Daniel's with them. A 10 year old!
DCFS arrested them & successfully prosecuted them.
This kid was wventualky ok, and they still got convicted.
These parents did even worse.

and yet a variation of the same thing will happen tomorrow or the day after... a manufactured loop created by political orthodoxy.

2 year olds don't have agency and I'm sick of people attributing it to them when adults fail to secure their firearms and get infants killed.