"You have a red dot on your forehead," said a child. Then a man shot his nephew.

[MaxQue]

The Second Amendment was designed as a safeguard against hypothetical tyranny and is irrelevant to this case of criminal homicide. This man is charged with having made a fatal mistake and should be tried for it in court.

For once, you are one hundred percent right. These type of incidents have happened before and are extremely rare. The only lesson here is to not point your gun at your nephew. He will be charged and punished for this crime, just like people have been since the Bill of Rights was enacted.

Let's think this scenario through:  If that idiot didn't have a gun, would this have happened? 

There are always going to be dumb people out there in society.  More weapons in society means more dumb people with access to weapons.  By having our ridiculous gun laws, we're guaranteeing this type of event.  It's so dishonest to pretend that's not true.

So the solution is universal disarmament that includes the millions of other people who are not idiots?

No, but it's tight checks to see if you're responsible enough to own weapons because giving you a weapon licence.

[MaxQue]

The Second Amendment was designed as a safeguard against hypothetical tyranny and is irrelevant to this case of criminal homicide. This man is charged with having made a fatal mistake and should be tried for it in court.

For once, you are one hundred percent right. These type of incidents have happened before and are extremely rare. The only lesson here is to not point your gun at your nephew. He will be charged and punished for this crime, just like people have been since the Bill of Rights was enacted.

Let's think this scenario through:  If that idiot didn't have a gun, would this have happened? 

There are always going to be dumb people out there in society.  More weapons in society means more dumb people with access to weapons.  By having our ridiculous gun laws, we're guaranteeing this type of event.  It's so dishonest to pretend that's not true.

So the solution is universal disarmament that includes the millions of other people who are not idiots?

No, but it's tight checks to see if you're responsible enough to own weapons because giving you a weapon licence.

As far as we know, this man is a "law abiding citizen" who has no criminal record. While I support background checks, this wouldn't have been prevented by them. You can't predict this type of accident. This is the wrong type of incident to base an anti-gun argument off of, IMO.

You need a licence to drive, why not a licence to own guns?

[MaxQue]

If cars are to be considered a necessity, naturally, guns will be a necessity to shoot car thieves.

Thankfully, Washington State doesn't consider them such a necessity as to make shooting a suspected car thief a justification for homicide.  Even if they were considered a necessity, property theft should never be considered a justification for the use of deadly force.

A jury has already acquitted Mr. Gerlach and ruled 10-2 that this was a justified shooting. As a result of the frivolous charges the state of Washington is out $300,000.

The law is bad then. Murderers shouldn't be allowed to steal taxpayers' money.