Adults are responsible for their children’s behavior. It has been this way forever. It is the parents' responsibility to not buy tons of junk food, for example — but making your child fat doesn’t kill people around them. (Letter to the editor: "Charging parents for kids’ shootings a troubling legal trend," Sept. 10.)
Parents have long been held criminally responsible for their kids’ criminal acts such as underage drinking, driving under age or under the influence, stealing and skipping school. Parents have been responsible for court costs and damages to others property as a result of their kid’s actions.
Why in God's name should a parent not be responsible for their child getting hold of their unlocked gun in their home where he/she can use it to kill another child or adult? It's about time parents are being held responsible for their children killing others with the parents’ guns.
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When it comes right down to it, it’s the parents who purchased the gun and allowed access to it. The Second Amendment says nothing about a parent's God-given right to not be held harmless for allowing their kids to kill others with their guns.
Karin Mark
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