Right. You cant legislate intelligence on any issue. Sometimes I forget that since it is the right of all citizens to carry a gun in self defense, that doesnt mean all citizens are smart or even safe.Criminalizing conduct and if something is ok are different.
Marijuana is illegal. A large chunk of the population thinks it's ok.
French kissing and groping your significant other on a park bench in a crowded park is legal. A large chunk of the population thinks it's not ok.
Laws only work when there is public buy-in and the culture supports it. You want to change gun safety violations? Change the culture. Someone who lacks the forethought to carry in such a way they can leave a gun in a couch isn't going to have the forethought to think "I could be charged criminally if..." Someone who leaves it on the toilet tank forgot it and isn't going to remember it because of the law.
Where's all the normal "you can't legislate morality" and "gun control laws don't prevent crime" messages we see whenever "they" introduce the notion that a new law will affect gun violence? So now you want to criminalize an accident? Or base the charges on things outside the control of the individual? If I drop my gun and a responsible adult finds it, no harm no foul, but if a kid finds it I'm a criminal?
Let's see some of the ideas of how we can potentially restrict and hamper all lawful gun owners based on this guy, and then explain why it's any different than gun-grabber proposals. C'mon, you can do it. Mandate carry insurance since we can't be sure they'll pay up in a civil suit. Mandate government approved carry equipment. Loss of carry rights based on "stupid". Gun registry so we can track the owner of found guns. It's for the kids. We have to do something.
Old guys sits on sofa, gun slides out of his pocket, we need more laws.
Old guy sits in a hotel room with a bunch of rifles with bumpstocks and kills about 60 people and injures hundreds more. Laws wouldn't have prevented this. My rights.
It does baffle me that there is no charge that applies for losing or leaving your gun laying around though.
I understand and agree in most cases that we need less charges and prosecution of citizens. I think law enforcement and the court is over used in a lot of cases but I also understand the dilemma of trying to equally apply the law and not look biased. Catch22 and I'm glad I'm not in that business.
There is no real solution. There is no real answer. I just try to live my life as a good citizen and teach my children to be good too. That is a lot of work and time. But I have to lookout for all the idiots out there. Talking about criminal recklessness with a car, the other day driving I watched a woman driving an SUV (woman driving was my first warning ) who freely merged from lane to lane without even looking for traffic. She did use her turn signal. I guess she thought when she flips that on it means get the hell out of her way because she has the right of way! Several cars including me had to swerve to avoid becoming collateral damage. Some People simply dont care about others.
I'm betting the man who lost his gun also has no real training to use it either. More stupid in my opinion but no not illegal