If i leave a loaded gun for my 3 year old and he shoots himself, who's fault was it?

Question

what if i told him NOT to touch it?

i am a lot smarter than my 3 year old...so i think its my fault.
god is a lot smarter than us....so who's fault is it really that we ate the fruit?

shouldn't i have known the gun was dangerous....and only bad could come from leaving a loaded on around with kids that don't know better?

Answer 1

And if you were omniscient and knew beforehand what would happen, doesn't that make it even worse?

Answer 2

I'm not commenting on the gun part of the question. My focus is on who's fault that we ate the fruit. I can't understand why it's believed that Eve tricked Adam. If we believe that then we must also believe that Eve herself was tricked. They were both idiots for allowing themselves to be fooled. Weren't they both told not to eat from that tree? Well, that's if you believe that story. I'm a catholic because that's how I was raised but I don't believe in the bible (well, just a little bit.)

Answer 3

You can kill yourself with a lot of things besides a loaded gun and kids do, all the time. So you are saying if you were God you would put us in a bubble? IN a rubber room perhaps?
I think you should think this out a little more and re-approach it, cause kids have killed themselves with many things that seem harmless. I had a daughter that my goodness. It's a wonder she made it to 18 she was so strong willed and rebellious. All I can say is thank GOD she listened to me SOMETIMES. do you ever listen to God?

Answer 4

Well, for one thing, I believe human adults are a lot smarter than a three year old. And that said, we are all accountable for our choices. And if you have deeper meaning, that is the discussion of good and evil in the Garden of Eden, God made everything perfect. Humans of their freewills made a choice and received the consequences. God in His infinite wisdom had a plan for redemption. He was willing to die to redeem humans of their consequences. I suppose you could say that they were set up by God. It would be best to read the Bible as a lawbook to answer that question and explore the assumption that condemnation and blood redemption were necessary to ultimately vanquish evil in the universe.

Answer 5

It would be your fault. That's gross negligence The only way it could be considered not your fault would be if you were retarded, in which case you probably shouldn't have kids in the first place.

And the parallel I think you're drawing with God is a valid one. If God creates everything, then he creates sin and our potential for bad behavior. So that would make God either a malevolent or incompetent creator.

Answer 6

If the child was 20 years old - whose fault is it? That's a better example. God knows our hearts and what we are capable of handling. We are accountable for our actions at some point.

Answer 7

The different is that your son's desire is not to shoot himself. But Adam and Eve had desire to taste the fruit of enjoyment without God, therefore God gave them the chance to taste it.

Answer 8

You should keep all of your guns locked up in a gun cabinet, unloaded. Except for the one that you keep by your bedside for "homeland security", in that case any child at the age of three that can get the safety off of Sig 9 MM should be at the firing range with me.

I know that this wasn't the point of your question....just an avid NRA Member couldn't resist.

Have a great day!!!!!

Answer 9

I think perhaps you should toss that 3 year old in a BBQ pit for a few weeks just to drive the point of gun safety home.... he shoulda listened...

Answer 10

it is your fault as a child does not understand that guns are dangerous. God told Adam and eve that they would die if they ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil genesis ch2 v17. so they knew the consequences of their actions

Answer 11

Your lame attempt to corelate the story of genesis and the leaving of a gun in the presence of a three year old doesn't work. Adam was an adult.