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[-] Red_October@lemmy.world 38 points 1 month ago

Felony Murder is a bitch, just like whoever wrote that headline.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 11 points 1 month ago

Have you considered that maybe felony murder is fascist bullshit and the headline writer is completely correct to call it out?

[-] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 month ago

They chose to commit a crime together, then they got into a shootout with police.

The responsibility lies with the people who chose to commit the crime in the first place.

Breaking and entering is stupid dangerous, they knew that. Thats why they had a gun.

[-] CrypticCoffee@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

Did he though, or his friends? The whole concept of manslaughter, and murder in the first and second degree is based on intent. Robbing a place is not as bad as murder, I'm sorry. That's ridiculous.

Guns can be used a deterrent. I mean, the US have nukes. Mutually assured destruction. There isn't the intent to use it, just to have it to protect yourself. It's weird they hold kids to a higher standard than their own foreign policy.

Breaking and entering is stupid. It isn't a plan to murder someone though.

[-] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

Armed Home Invasion has very strict penalties for good reason. How could you not think they would expect if they behaved that way it was likely they would kill someone. They literally did it the night before.

Are we really going to pretend the defendant was unaware of the crimes going on and that the group had a gun? He was just a scared kid right?

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