Comment on A kid in my semi hometown in arkansas said he was going to shoot up a wal-mart if we went on a hanta lockdown. He was arrested and everything. Can you really be charged fed for typing?

Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• stoly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I suspect that the mere utterance is enough for it to be a threat, even if a rational person would know it was not serious.

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• HikingVet@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Where I live you can be charged with “uttering threats” and you can have the addition of “with weapons”, or “with deadly weapons”

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• Patnou@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  But what if he was just pissed off and letting off steam? Would it really require this much effort from law enforcement?

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  • Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    But what if he was just pissed off and letting off steam?

    Depends quite a lot on the orifice.

    If you let it out through the mouth, all the laws apply. No excuse. Especially stupidity is no excuse.

    If you let it out of the other end: less harm.

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  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Let’s say you’re the cops and someone tells you about a threat. Would you rather investigate the threat and find that it was nothing, or ignore the threat and have to explain why you didn’t do anything about the mass shooting that you were warned about?

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    • HikingVet@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      UUhhhhh, both of those happen regularly and inside the same police force. Sometimes with the came cop.

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    • Patnou@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Depends was it from a 20 year old kid who only said that specfic quote once? Then probably not. If he went on with his normal game probably not would visit him and just pretty much write it off. Now if he went on and on and wrote a manifesto online and everything they I would do more the just visit him.

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      • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I recommend looking into how much warning ACTUAL mass shooters usually give.

        I totally believe your friend didn’t mean anything by it, but assuming the cops would just feel the same way without knowing anything else about him is delusional.

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  • FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    How do you expect the police to know the difference between “letting off steam” and a serious threat?

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