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Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 4 days ago
en.m.wikipedia.org/…/Charlottesville_car_attack
Life without the possibility of parole. They’re full of shit, if you do it deliberately it’s no different to any other weapon.
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It’s pretty strange… Love the username, though.
They used to defend universalmonk, judge them by that
if you do it deliberately it’s no different to any other weapon.
Of course but at least there’s the possibility of it being an accident. Absent other proof, such as that possession of a manifesto, you can quite possibly get away with it
On the other hand there’s no way to spin as an accident that you walked up behind someone and shot them
What do you mean, isn’t guns like play things for everyone starting age 3?
It would be a difficult argument to make if you ran them over on the sidewalk though.
It’s not the weapon, it’s the plausible deniability.
optissima@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
Your example is weak because they did a hate crime, which this would not have been. Do you have a better one?
SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 4 days ago
Well, technically this seems to have been a hate crime as well - just not of a “protected class” (which I’m sure is a “shortcoming” of the law that they’ll get “addressed”).
optissima@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
Technically, hate crimes consist of crime because of innate properties of an individual (+religion), which again this isn’t. No doubt they’ll codify something special for the rich soon, but still not a hate crime.
SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 4 days ago
It’s that religion exception that belies the idea that it’s solely about qualities of a person that they have no control over. Beliefs are beliefs, regardless if they’re related to religion or capitalism.
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 4 days ago
My point is, you don’t get away with killing someone just because you used a car to do so, and I think that proves my point.
Feel free to come up with some evidence of your own.
optissima@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
Getting away is not the point, the point is a lighter sentence.
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 3 days ago
Didn’t work for the example above, did it?