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Gun Control: A Misguided Focus on Mental Illness

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Dark_Falcon12/18/2012 9:32:18 pm PST

re: #195 Mich-again

What if people who kept firearms at their residence had to take responsibility for it’s actions, like owning a pit bull.

I’m not opposed to that, with the provision that a person is not liable if they acted with ‘due care’, which in this case would likely mean a proper safe.

We wouldn’t hold a person responsible if he owned a properly trained a socialized pit bull that was stolen from him and then tortured into a monster by bog-fighters. We’d say that the original owner exercised proper care, but and that the wrong was done by the criminals who stole his property despite his diligent efforts to secure it.