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

A dangerous criminal too, the kind they promised they'd go after

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?

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

Nevermind that's all emotional BS.

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

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?

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.

Yeah that's how you know he killed her on purpose

It's so strange to me, the people that the public will hold accountable and the people who get a pass

Sometimes if I'm facing the wrong way in line at the grocery store or if I get randomly distracted by something, an old person or a woman will accost me, literally screaming and crying, complete with snot bubbles, because I've made some kind of basic and understandable error. I pressed the wrong button, I didn't see someone in line so I cut in front of them, I forgot to hold the elevator door.

This guy shoots his daughter and people are saying ridiculous shit, assuming that he's stupid or assuming that he's going to snap out of it one day. He can't just be a murderer. People are frothing at the mouth to make excuses for people like this.

Beware of the R word.

Why not 'regulate'? Ah yes freedom.

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.

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

That would only hold if the law were consistent. This very obviously only goes this single direction.