Then he ought to be put down, for his daughter's honor.

Always have been

Hadn't heard "laser rule" before, I assume it's the same as "don't point it at anything you care about".

After drinking, and right before leaving for the airport.

You forgot about the like half liter of wine he had.

She did teach her gun safety. When not operated safely, guns can kill your daughter.

Yeah, stupid group of people can’t even do the thing they care most about correctly.

It's a small town. He's probably buddies with all the cops and DAs. That shit is super common.

they really don't care, man. talk to some boomers sometimes they desperately need to be forced into retirement and group homes.

I am baffled at how this doesn't constitute premeditated murder. They had some argument and then guy's like "know what? I know what I'm gonna do." And did it. What freaking horror.

I just accidentally beat my daughter to death. The bat just went off on it's own. I was just showing her the bat then all of a sudden she was bludgeoned to death. I have no idea what happened!

Well glocks don’t have safeties and require you to pull the trigger to disassemble. Negligent discharges when trying to show them off to people absolutely do happen, and with how you have to hold the gun to take it apart the “don’t point at anything you don’t wish to shoot” rule gets overlooked a lot.

They’re the default “modern” handgun but I’ve always said they are a terrible design.

There's no excuse for it to not be murder, but the fact its not even manslaughter is a message.

Exactly this. I was taught not to point a gun at anything I don't intend to destroy, even if I believe it not to be loaded.

Anything less than that is negligent manslaughter at the least if the gun 'goes off' 'by accident', because you should never be in that situation.

This is just an excuse, dude murdered his daughter and is trying to blame it on the gun. Guns don't load themselves, and they don't magically go off...

Where I live, in Europe, you CAN own firearms. Long guns pretty easily, as they are considered hunting/sporting guns, including semi-auto assault rifles, albeit, with 3 round magazines. Buying or even 3D printing larger ones is trivial, but it's a felony to have one near the gun (same range/car/house...).

Long gun licenses require a medical, which includes a basic psych eval.

Handguns require a stricter medical, with a more detailed psych eval, and a course which includes gun safety, and legislation, among other things.

Except for some rare exceptions (jewelers, judges, and other people that can objectively be considered a target for assault or retaliation) you cannot carry, open or otherwise, except to go to a range, or hunting ground, and the gun and munitions must be separated; guns in a case in the trunk, with the magazine and munitions in the front of the car.

I don't get why there isn't a reasonable license for guns in the US. There is for cars, no?

Nevermind that's all emotional BS.

He did it intentionally not on accident. They're trusting the murderer in the m urder case.

I've been rewatching Bojack Horseman, and there's an episode where Diane convinces the state to pass common-sense gun legislation by making it "in" for women to carry guns. The eventually leads to the line, "I can't believe this country hates women more than it loves guns," to which the character with her replies, "really?"

I think that moment is, unfortunately, rather poignant.

guns don't kill people, women kill people.

she killed herself by arguing with a man.

/s

#choosethebear

Seems like women should be identifying with AR/15 as their pronouns

Texas

Grand jury. What little I've read keeps saying they tried for manslaughter. Also from what I've read, based on the dad's own statements he's clearly guilty of a number of crimes that aren't manslaughter. So it's possible there's some nazi-esque camaraderie here and the prosecutor intentionally flopped to get no charges. I'm not exactly sure how grand juries work on that front. Could they have tried for a lower level charge, then once the rest of the investigation uncovers things they just bump the charge up to the appropriate level of would they need to reconvene a grand jury? Could the grand jury have considered multiple levels of charges?

Grand jury indictments are required for felony charges to make it to trial, including felonies like murder/involuntary manslaughter.

Indictments are a very low bar (probable cause). In this case, it seems clear to me from everyone's accounts that, at minimum, this was a reckless homicide where the mishandling of a firearm resulted in someone's death, and therefore probable cause existed to indict, so this is very clearly a poor decision on the jury's part if the charge was manslaughter. I'm not sure if they tried to seek an indictment for involuntary manslaughter or murder though. Murder is a higher bar.

However this isn't necessarily a done deal. Double jeopardy does not apply to grand juries' "no bill" (i.e. the decision not to indict), so the prosecutor can gather more evidence or plan a different approach and try again. If, for example, they attempted to get an indictment for murder and failed, they could try again for manslaughter. This is really only news if the prosecution decides to stop trying to indict.

"If a district attorney wanted, a grand jury would indict a ham sandwich."

I don't think the district attorney tried to do more than the bare minimum for the indictment. I wonder if they purposely threw the case.

Hey look how about some sympathy for the gun owner here? He accidentally pointed a loaded weapon at a loved one while having a heated argument, and the gun felt scared and accidentally went off! By accident!

Really, that poor gun owner might be scared to point a loaded weapon at a loved one again! Don't victim blame the poor owner!

"To shoot her through the chest whilst she was standing would have required him to have been pointing the gun at his daughter, without checking for bullets, and pulling the trigger," the coroner said. "I find these actions to be reckless."

Mmhmm.

Some states do require a grand jury indictment if its a crime that carries capital punishment. Like murder.

Could be a case where they went for a specific murder charge, but weren't able to support it.

Or the prosecutor was implicit

Ah yes, the "good" kind of immigrant...