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Yeah, I hate taking a celebratory tone about this, or treating it like it's something we can just laugh about endlessly...
But I do take issue with calling seventeen year olds children. They're a year away from being able to legally vote, and it is the case that we would all think it was a draconian law if a nineteen year old was put in jail for sleeping with his seventeen year old girlfriend he had a long-term relationship with...
Yet, the nineteen year old is an adult.
... And let me also say he should have known better on some basic level as well.
Like the guys who are just nonchalantly walking on dangerous ledges...
My guess is that the guy regularly handled the gun while it was loaded and so the weight difference between loaded/unloaded never really registered to him, and he felt he could just mess around haphazardly with the gun whenever and, just without thought... Bam.
It's tragic, but it's also like walking on dangerous ledges regularly to show off. I hate that it happened, but I understand why it happened, and I feel that the person involved knew wht was up to some degree, but tried to gain recognition by ignoring the dangers and showing off.
Seventeen year old people are children. They are minors. They are still in high school. They have, in most cases, not lived one single day of being an adult with all of the responsibilities and privileges that that comes along with. Even when you are 18 years old, you are still immature because your brain will not be fully formed until 25 years of age. There are Juliet laws yes, so that teenagers can be in a legal relationship with other teenagers and it’s irrelevant.
And honestly for the record, 19 year old people are also basically children to me, but that’s not what the law says.
.. No, they're teenagers. Yes their brain hasn't finished developing, yes they're not as mature as someone older, yes they haven't lived as a thirty year old, but no they're not children. They're teenagers. What a stupid fucking hill you've chosen.
It’s not my opinion that a 17 year old is a child, it’s a legal fact, dumbass.