Utah does not have any laws to penalize someone for failing to secure an unattended firearm and leaving it accessible to an unsupervised minor, according to the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence. The state also does not require unattended firearms to be stored in a certain way or require a locking device to be sold with a firearm.
thanks to the “gun laws only hurt law abiding citizens!” crowd
Imagine being held responsible for what your firearms do if you don’t secure them. We can’t have that, I need my weapon to be always ready in case my kid wants to shoot themselves and die!
Well they’re busy shitting all over the constitution, democracy, the rule of law, common fucking decency, common sense, voters, and the English language - the establishment clause was bound to catch some splatter.
I can’t imagine leaving a loaded weapon unsecured because: I’m not an idiot.
I have them secured where they belong in a locked gun safe with the ammo in a different location secured in its own safe. It’s not hard.
Now, this mom gets to enjoy the horror of seeing her sons brains blown out in the back of her car played over and over and over in her mind. Stupid fuck.
I am going to guess that the loaded gun was in the car for “protection”. You know, against the rampant carjacking epidemic currently crippling Lehi, Utah. /s
This isnot a mental illness. This is just complete ignorance of gun danger in a country that celebrates giving out firearms like candy without any kind of training or licensing requirements. This is a dangerous lack of gun laws and an ignorant gun owner. Here in Canada, we have lots of guns but a far lower rate of accidents and murders. Pistols are restricted, which means the only places you’re allowed to ever have a pistol is locked in your home, at the gun range, or at the gunsmith, or locked in truck on a direct route between those locations. You aren’t allowed to keep ammo in the same container as the gun, never mind keeping one actually loaded. You know all of this because you had to take a safety course and pass a written and practical exam before you are allowed to own even a .22. The restricted license is yet another course and set of exams.
This is the fault of the laws of the land and the mother’s ignorance. Don’t bring mental illness into it, that’s ablist bullshit.
They need the book thrown at them for risking putting their ship in the hands of a billionaire who thinks he knows what is best in a military operation.
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