Locking Your Adult Child Up

[germaine2626]

Originally Posted by californiawomann5

You need to deadbolt your house and tell your son not to come around. You could end up liable if he uses that gun for... Again, hang in there. I will pray for you all

I agree. Change the locks on your house (if your son has keys) and put padlocks on your garage and sheds.

I shudder to think what could have happened if your granddaughter got out of your truck at school and someone saw your hunting rifle and ammo in the truck. Or maybe she even innocently told her friends or teacher about it.

Please take care of yourself.

[malamute]

Originally Posted by jtur88

Unfortunately, in America, "locking him up" means throwing him into a dungeon to be subjected to uncontrolled cruelty at the hands of the worst of sociopaths. Americans throw more human beings into these inhuman cells than any other country in the world, because America is the only economically advanced country that can't think of any other way to deal with them, nor to arrange society in a manner to reduce the number of them. We refuse to let other countries show us how they manage health care, we refuse to let other countries show us how they manage an economic safety net, we refuse to let other countries show us how to rehabilitate offenders without simply throwing them into the jungle laws of dead end penal dungeons.

You did not lock him up. American society locked him up and turned their back on him and told you that if you didn't do anything for him, nobody would, because our society is made up of individuals who have been taught to be too selfish to care.

Yeah, maybe if our prisons were better like what they have in Turkey, or Mexico, or Peru, everything would be so much better.

Our jails and prisons are like country clubs which is why so many don't seem to mind going to one. Someone taking someone else's vehicle without permission probably needs to at least be in jail. Often that's the only way they'll stop doing that.