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Originally Posted by Shaun 84 Targa
Our society, for better or worse, places a premium on WHY.
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Wrong. They place a premium on requisite intent. If you kill someone with no intent, you won't get charged with murder. Sure, they may throw that charge at you to get you to plead to a lesser one. But killing someone by accident is not murder. It's just about impossible to kill two people with a gun by accident. One maybe, not two. And there's no question whatsoever that the church nut intended to kill people. He left his house with his gun and was on a mission to kill. I don't know how you get any more clear cut a case of premeditated murder than that. Did he know the politics of the individuals he shot? Did he go after people with CA plates on their cars and assume they were liberals? Doesn't matter. He intended to kill complete strangers and took several deliberate steps before doing so. Murder one, period.
Go ahead, Shaun. Just come out and say some people's lives are more important than others and that's why we have hate crimes laws. Liberals love to view people as groups and not individuals.