Let's see. Father and son drug dealing. Father accidentally shoots son thinking he's the home invader. If prosecuted in Georgia, he would be potentially facing felony murder and mandatory life with parole eligibility after serving 30 years, especially if he was actively engaged with a drug transaction at the time. If not, maybe some wiggle room. If a grand jury saw fit to indict as felony murder, perhaps a sympathetic prosecutor (oxymoron) would charge bargain to voluntary or involuntary manslaughter and allow the judge to sentence and avoid mandatory life. However, the discretion to charge bargain is solely with the DA and not the judge. Gil
This would, or should, be true most anyplace within the U.S., and I agree completely. But as with much of what King Brown posts here, it is always best to verify his claims because he tends to leave out a lot of information that might not support his anti-2nd Amendment positions.
First off, it appears that the father was not actively working with the son in dealing drugs out of his home. There was testimony that perhaps he knew about it and tolerated it, yet he was not convicted of either drug use, possession, or dealing. Insofar as I can tell, the father was never even charged with those crimes, And there is no evidence that the father was told by his son, who gave him the .30-30 rifle only a week before, that there was an imminent home invasion due to his drug dealing activities.
I'm not excusing the father's actions. He was clearly negligent and reckless. Canada's strict gun laws didn't do anything to prevent this tragedy. If anything, Canada's laws and legal system may have permitted it to happen, because there were previous break-ins at the home, and at one point, Police had seized 17,000 grams of marijauna. Therefore, the Canadian justice and legal system had apparently sloughed off the opportunity to stop the drug dealing and put the son in jail for felony level drug dealing. So who is really responsible for this tragedy... guns, a reckless father who fired blindly after being awakened by a home invasion and being physically attacked, or a Liberal Legal Justice System that treated drug dealing with little more than a hand slap?
Considering the untold parts of the story, it seems likely that the "Wild West" U.S. justice and legal system would have dealt with this situation more harshly, and in a manner that may have prevented the ultimate tragic shooting. The son was obviously a felon by U.S. standards. Yet he had drugs, scales and drug dealing paraphernalia, a shotgun, and other offensive weapons, and should not have even been able to purchase that rifle.
Here's a few links to stories with the parts King left out:
http://thechronicleherald.ca/metro/1281261-father-negligent-in-son%E2%80%99s-shooting-death-jury-finds
http://thechronicleherald.ca/metro/1345024-sympathetic-judge-jails-n.s.-man-who-shot-son-%E2%80%98i-truly-feel-terrible-for-you%E2%80%99
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/nati...rticle28934902/http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/michael-dockrill-sentencing-1.3465246I can't don't know why the Chronicle Herald links won't work. You'll have to copy and paste them into your browser if you'd like to read more of the story.
