The Hemani decision from the Fifth Circuit just handed the gun-control crowd another reminder that you can’t punish parents for the sins of their adult children, and that precedent is already casting a long shadow over the Virginia case of Deja Taylor, whose six-year-old son brought her unsecured handgun to school and shot his teacher. By striking down the federal prohibition on gun possession by users of marijuana, the court doubled down on the idea that the government must prove an individual’s actual dangerousness rather than rely on blanket disqualifications—an analytical framework that defense attorneys in the Taylor matter are now citing to argue that a mother’s mere ownership of a firearm cannot be criminalized when the shooter is a minor incapable of forming criminal intent. The practical takeaway for the 2A community is that courts are increasingly unwilling to stretch statutes beyond their text or to criminalize otherwise-lawful gun owners through guilt by association, a trend that could blunt the growing push to hold parents strictly liable whenever a child misuses a firearm.