• ApexHunter@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    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.