A child got ahold of a gun and shot edit: someone. Children any age 2 and up get ahold of guns and shoot siblings, parents, and other kids sometimes. I don’t think your question of “do we arrest them and throw them in jail like the evil little criminals they are” is the gotcha that you think it is.
“When a toddler kills someone in cold blood…” You live in a strange, sad, non-existent little world.
“Figure out what went wrong…” Like… figure out why a toddler is a psychopath? Once again, you live in a strange, sad, non-existent little world.
I shouldn’t need to give you a crash course on the mentalities and development of young children. You should realize what’s stupid about what you’re saying on your own.
I’ll say this though: people who believe that children should “behave” in a way that resembles adults in any capacity are the extreme majority of child abusers. Not malicious people— people who are ignorant and controlling. If you think 6-year-olds can be mass-murdering psychopaths in the way that adults can be, you are likely one of the kinds of people who would be overbearing and then eventually frustrated enough with your child to abuse them. Source: me, survivor of a whole lot of child abuse from a lot of different people, and I’m writing a novel partially about this whole subject.
A six year old is not capable of the reasoning required to understand the full weight of the consequences of their actions. At that age most children still don’t understand that death is permanent.
Motivation for performing that act would likely be driven by seeing it in media or games, which is content children that age shouldn’t be exposed to. Not a stellar example of parenting, though we already knew the parents weren’t awesome because they kept a loaded gun where a six year old could access it. Just because they see and imitate the act doesn’t mean they understand it.
To answer your original question, if a child kills someone with a firearm, you go after the adult who gave the child access to it. Same as if the adult started spinning around in circles shooting randomly and killed someone.
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A child got ahold of a gun and shot edit: someone. Children any age 2 and up get ahold of guns and shoot siblings, parents, and other kids sometimes. I don’t think your question of “do we arrest them and throw them in jail like the evil little criminals they are” is the gotcha that you think it is.
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Who the kid shot makes no difference to the argument.
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“When a toddler kills someone in cold blood…” You live in a strange, sad, non-existent little world.
“Figure out what went wrong…” Like… figure out why a toddler is a psychopath? Once again, you live in a strange, sad, non-existent little world.
I shouldn’t need to give you a crash course on the mentalities and development of young children. You should realize what’s stupid about what you’re saying on your own.
I’ll say this though: people who believe that children should “behave” in a way that resembles adults in any capacity are the extreme majority of child abusers. Not malicious people— people who are ignorant and controlling. If you think 6-year-olds can be mass-murdering psychopaths in the way that adults can be, you are likely one of the kinds of people who would be overbearing and then eventually frustrated enough with your child to abuse them. Source: me, survivor of a whole lot of child abuse from a lot of different people, and I’m writing a novel partially about this whole subject.
A six year old is not capable of the reasoning required to understand the full weight of the consequences of their actions. At that age most children still don’t understand that death is permanent.
Motivation for performing that act would likely be driven by seeing it in media or games, which is content children that age shouldn’t be exposed to. Not a stellar example of parenting, though we already knew the parents weren’t awesome because they kept a loaded gun where a six year old could access it. Just because they see and imitate the act doesn’t mean they understand it.
To answer your original question, if a child kills someone with a firearm, you go after the adult who gave the child access to it. Same as if the adult started spinning around in circles shooting randomly and killed someone.