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Maybe show off the gun with no ammunition in it and the safety on. Not loaded with the safety off.
I'm not going to show off new kitchen knives to a friend by swinging them wildly around the house.
He should 100% be charged with criminal negligence causing death. He should 100% spend time in prison. Whether the tweet is a lie or not, and your claim is true, he killed his daughter because he was a negligent fucking moron.
No. Homicide at the least. You can't argue to me that pointing a gun does not infer intent, or at least, I'd be willing to make that argument. If I were a prosecutor I'd find out what gun safety classes this guy had gone through and I can almost guarantee, if they'd been through any, the first thing they were taught was to not fire a gun at anything you do not intend to kill.
Pointing a gun at someone or something shows intent. It's not like he had it reasonably secured in. A holster and it misfired.
He picked up the gun, he pointed the gun.
Now we have intent.
Whatever happens after that is his fault.
I don't disagree with anything you said. I just haven't seen anything that says he deliberately pointed it at her.
Is there a way to accidentally pick up a gun and point it at someone? Just playing the part of prosecutor.
Sitting next to her holding the gun on your lap and it goes off? I still haven't seen anything about deliberately pointing it.
Absolutely not trying to defend anything thus guy did. He killed his daughter. He did so because of his own negligence. But like I said before I haven't seen anything about deliberation pointing it at her.
Elsewhere in this post someone mentions that the Glock the father was using does not come with a safety, surprisingly this is not apparently mandated by law on firearms.