BLACK, J.
This case involves the common-law rule that a parent may be found guilty of actionable negligence for having intrusted — or having made accessible — a firearm or other deadly weapon to his mentally deficient child. Restatement's comment, on clause (c) of section 877 (4 Restatement of Torts, pp 442-444), portrays the general rule:
"d. A person who has voluntarily taken charge of an insane or otherwise dangerous person, a prison guard...
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