Comment on Chatbot that caused teen’s suicide is now more dangerous for kids, lawsuit says
Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
One or more parents in denial that there’s anything wrong with their kids and/or the idea they need to take gun storage seriously? That’s the first thing that comes to mind, and it’s not uncommon in the US. Especially when you consider that a lot of gun rhetoric revolves around self defense in an emergency/home invasion, not having at least one gun readily available defeats the main purpose in their minds.
django@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
As a European I am astonished, that the article never mentions, or even questions, why this child had access to a loaded firearm.
The chatbot might be a horrible mess and shouldn’t be accessible by children, but a gun should be even less accessible to a child.
Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Ideally, I agree wholeheartedly. American gun culture multiplies the damage of every other issue we have by a lot