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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (326497)12/6/2002 9:51:15 PM
From: DavesM  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769670
 
re:"But if you have a weapon and you neighbor's kid gets killed with it while your kid was showing it to him, can you be sued?"

Yes, why not? And in some jurisdictions, you may find yourself being charged with manslaughter.

re:"It's hardly a social service"

What good is a right, if you have no means to express it? If protection of one's life and property is not a social service (dependent upon the competence of local law enforcement), they why deny the means to protect one's life from violent criminal (and unlawful) attack?



To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (326497)12/7/2002 2:19:19 AM
From: Selectric II  Respond to of 769670
 
Yes, you could be sued, and possibly even go to jail, depending upon the circumstances. And rightfully so.

With the right to bear arms comes the responsibility to do so with reasonable care and safety. Anybody who negligently fails to live up to that responsibility should bear the consequences.

Not unlike the owner of an automobile who might give the keys to a juvenile or to someone who's drunk.


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