bearingarms.com By Tom Knighton
Part of the problem with the gun control argument is that it’s mostly predicated on blaming the gun for the actions of an individual. It wasn’t the killer who killed people, it was the gun.
No, gun control advocates won’t agree with that observation, but they really do seem more focused on guns than people. They keep calling for restrictions that will apply to people who have no ill intentions whatsoever and ignore the fact that the lion’s share of the problem is with people who aren’t going to follow those rules anyway.
Unfortunately, we’ve seen a handful of cases lately where people are being blamed for shootings, and the problem is that it’s not the people who are actually carrying out the shooting.
In Virginia, an assistant principal is charged with child abuse after failing to intervene before a 6-year-old shot his first-grade teacher.
In Michigan, a couple is sentenced to a decade in prison for failing to stop their 15-year-old son from gunning down four high-school classmates.
And in Illinois, a father pleads guilty to reckless misconduct after his son killed seven people at a Fourth of July parade.
The cases represent a new type of weapon in the country’s gun violence epidemic: a prosecutorial one. New legal approaches and laws are widening the scope of accountability for those who not only pull triggers, but also for educators, parents and others who fail to report red flags.
Prosecutors and lawmakers are increasingly taking aim at people who could have taken steps before innocent victims were maimed or killed.
“As far as I know, this is really groundbreaking,” said James Ellenson, a lawyer for Deja Taylor, the mother of the 6-year-old boy who shot his teacher in Virginia, speaking about the criminal charges against the school official in the case. A special grand jury released a report Wednesday outlining failures by the school administration.
For decades, parents of school shooting victims and gun control advocates have looked to Congress to pass legislation that would prevent mass shootings by regulating firearms. But those proposals have largely failed amid backlash from gun rights advocacy and special interest groups, conservative lawmakers and American gun owners…
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