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Yes.I go out for a family doing, somebody or some people breakdown my locked door to enter my home, steal my firearms ......... If they sell my gun to a gang banger, and he kills another gang banger over a drug sale, should I be held responsible because I didn't secure my guns........?"
However if the gun was stolen .......... the owner shouldn't be fined or arrested for it at all if a criminal manage to find it anyway and use in a major crime. The owner did their part to secure it..............
Not in my scenario.
Because of the unique defining characteristics of a firearm/weapon you are strictly liable.....regardless of how well you guarded, hid, secured that tool.
YOU were the primary agency that brought that firearm/weapon into society. Accordingly, under strict liability you share....to some degree interpreted by a court....for whatever harm or damage that results from that weapon's use.
Period.
Indeed, and if that action is bringing that unique high-lethality tool into our society ...... then you bear part of the responsibility if things go wrong with your tool;People should be held responsible for their own actions.
As Sunsettommy has responded in pretty much the vein I would have....I'll simply say: You are responsible in some degree under the rubric of negligence. Not criminality, in my hypothetical argument.".....my gun that I originally brought with me and put it my console was stolen. If that gun is used in a crime, should I be charged with a criminal act?
It's pretty easy to forget your gun is in the car.............I don't want to be going up and down the stairs at 11:00 at night, especially if I had to get up the next morning for work. The gun was the last thing I thought of.
In my opinion, the poster pretty much illustrates the issue that our society is struggling with vis-a-vis the imagined freedom of ownership under the 2nd Amendment. It boils down to a desire for great freedom, with minimal responsibility encumbering it.
In the hypothetical scenario offered by the poster, he....no one else.....brought that easily portable, easily concealable, easy to use, and highly lethal tool/weapon into our society. And yet is so unmindful of it's potential he forgets it. Is so unmindful of it's potential to do great harm that he doesn't want to walk downstairs to secure it.
That's my argument in a nutshell.
IF you brought it into society.
You own it.
You own it's benefits.
You own it's harms.
Period.
Never seen a stinkier load of bullshit in my life.