The son is 15. That’s still very much the parents responsibility. That’s a child who lives with his parents, who can’t buy his own gun, who doesn’t have the same mental capacity as the 35 year old in your hypothetical.
I’m saying that the case declaring him an adult was wrong to do so, if the facts of the case show that he was a child whose parents are both liable for his actions.
Sure they are separate cases so the legal system can treat him as an adult and a child at the same time. But that’s bad. The legal system shouldn’t do that.
The son is 15. That’s still very much the parents responsibility. That’s a child who lives with his parents, who can’t buy his own gun, who doesn’t have the same mental capacity as the 35 year old in your hypothetical.
Great. Don’t charge him as an adult then.
These are two separate cases
I’m saying that the case declaring him an adult was wrong to do so, if the facts of the case show that he was a child whose parents are both liable for his actions.
Sure they are separate cases so the legal system can treat him as an adult and a child at the same time. But that’s bad. The legal system shouldn’t do that.