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Agreed - that's probably the easier way to charge the father in this case. Focus on child endangerment, reckless abandonment, etc. I'm just saying a gun charge probably isn't the best path to conviction in this case.

Agreed. Unfortunately the law and common sense don't always align. Maybe the father could be charged with reckless endangerment or some sort of neglect - I'm only saying there probably isn't a direct firearm storage statute that was violated here.

Edit: Sadly, it'd probably be easier to charge him for leaving the kid in the car based on how hot it was, with the gun storage issue maybe as an aggravating factor.

It really doesn't vary that much by state.

You can check all 50 individually from page 1 of this document - https://handgunlaw.us/documents/USRVCarCarry-1.pdf

Here's the breakdown for the most populous states, which would cover most people in the US. This also includes the most restrictive states in terms of gun laws like NY and CA, so most will be more permissive than this.

California: Prohibits carrying a loaded firearm in a vehicle unless it is in a locked container or the trunk. Concealed carry permit holders must adhere to these rules.

Texas: Allows permit holders to carry a loaded firearm in their vehicle.

Florida: Allows permit holders to carry a loaded firearm in their vehicle.

New York: Generally restrictive. In New York City, it is prohibited to have a loaded firearm in a vehicle. In other parts of the state, a permit is required, and rules can be strict.

Pennsylvania: Allows permit holders to carry a loaded firearm in their vehicle.

Illinois: Allows permit holders to carry a loaded firearm in their vehicle.

Ohio: Allows permit holders to carry a loaded firearm in their vehicle.

Georgia: Allows permit holders to carry a loaded firearm in their vehicle.

North Carolina: Allows permit holders to carry a loaded firearm in their vehicle.

Michigan: Allows permit holders to carry a loaded firearm in their vehicle.

Rule 1: Don't have kids.

Rule 2: Don't allow kids in your car or home.

Agreed. I was just quoting the actual law. I store loaded guns unsecured in my car and home, but I live alone and don't have kids or allow kids in my car or home. Obviously the situation would be different if I did.

I was just quoting the actual laws... As a concealed carry permit holder it's a pretty important responsibility to know how/where it's legal to store your loaded handgun.

Agreed. Was just stating what the law is.

Guns kept in a car usually aren't required to be locked up if the car itself is locked. There's not much point having a gun in the car if you have to ask the carjacker to wait nicely while you fetch your gun from its locked container.

I must be way out of the loop. Aside from a brand of coolers, what does "shiti" mean?

I don't work for the DNC and I'm not a boomer. I'm just a 30-something Bernie-bro who can read polls and knows Biden is losing EVERY SINGLE SWING STATE to Trump right now, and the numbers get worse every week as the cracks in the Biden facade become more apparent. And I really don't want Trump to win.

Because after the last debate, where Biden stood slack-jawed and confused for 90 minutes and failed to fill most of his 2-minute answer slots or even complete most of his sentences, he DESPERATELY needs to prove to people that he can think and act on his feet.

In an effort to prove that, he's made a series of teleprompted remarks and done interviews with preselected questions. He should be holding townhalls, but instead he's taking softballs.

So instead of proving the narrative wrong, he is continuing to reinforce the widespread belief among voters that he is incapable of showing that he's with it and is nothing more than a senile old man being abused by those around him so they can remain in power. Agree or not - that's the perception and Biden is reinforcing it every day he doesn't take real, hard-hitting questions on the fly without the help of a teleprompter or friendly audience/interviewer.

Not a single rebuttal to any of the points raised in the interviews I linked....

Sad.

Watch some of Larry Summers talks - he predicted this inflation as Biden was gearing up to pass the IRA. He bailed out deadbeat students, screwing over people like me who worked their way through college. This increased the amount of money circulating in the economy. Then he printed trillions of dollars to hand out to folks, increasing it even more.

Biden's policies directly contributed to and exacerbated inflation, rewarding irresponsible actors and punishing responsible ones. Even democrats and progressives (such as Larry Summers) can see this.

In case you don't know, Larry Summers was Secretary of the Treasury under Clinton and Director of the National Economic Council under Obama (and the President of Harvard in between) - so this isn't some far out right-wing talking point. Biden wanted a big bailout bill to take credit for, and he fucked the economy in the process.

Edit: I see downvotes, but no rebuttals. So I'll double-down with links to the interviews I'm referencing.

• NBC News: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F0cj73MNUU
• Bloomberg News: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uxbbFiiqxE
• Jon Stewart: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU3rGFyN5uQ

Isn't Grim the guy from Breaking Points & CounterPoints? I never knew he had another podcast...

No. The solution is to dump Biden and try to get a candidate that can prevent that.

Didn't Democrats control the House and Senate for the first few years of his presidency? Looks like they failed to use the time they had very effectively. Why reward lazy behavior with another term?

Biden could nominate three new justices to the court today if he wanted to.

Biden and the DNC knew that if he was forced to actually debate in an open primary, he'd be weakened as a candidate and would eventually lose to Trump. So they rigged the primary, hoped they could sneak a senile old man through without us realizing, and now they got caught.

The people in power are perfectly content to lose the cycle and try again in 2028. Newsom, Whitmer, etc. are all lining up to run against Trump's VP next cycle since he's term limited. And the reason Biden hasn't been thrown overboard yet is that the other potential candidates haven't decided if they want to throw away their carefully laid plans for 2028 to take a gamble here in 2024.

The only people that truly believe Trump winning in 2024 means there won't be an election in 2028 are the most myopic hyper partisan Democrat voters, and they believe that because it's a useful fallacy for the Democratic elite to have them believe. Because fear is the only motivator they have left at this point. But their actions clearly show that they don't believe it themselves.

Pure copium.

My understanding was that they weren't included in the ISO and had to be installed manually after the fact.

45 minutes outside of Portland, OR in any direction will get you somewhere just as rural as the place you left in SC, only with better weather and sane laws.