• FundMECFS@piefed.zip
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      17 hours ago

      The killer claims it accidentally went off.

      Even so, this is the kind of thing you need a proper trial to determine culpability. “He said it was an accident” after they had gotten in a heated argument and he lead her away to the gun room. His testimony absolutely not be taken for truth. And even if it was an accident theres definitely a case there for reckless endangerment/manslaughter. So I think the outrage at this news is justified

      • RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world
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        You can’t just load and chamber and fire a gun by fucking accident. Oh whoops the slide pulled back by accident, and I accidentally had my finger on the trigger, then I accidentally pulled all the way past the resistance of the firing pin. Nope. You murdered her.

        • kestrel7_7@lemmy.world
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          13 hours ago

          And even if you could somehow accidentally fire a gun, that’s the definition of manslaughter anyway, so the guy is still guilty either way.

        • halcyoncmdr@piefed.social
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          12 hours ago

          You assume he didn’t leave his weapons loaded. And that he hadn’t modified them with a hair trigger, etc.

          This is the type of person that has an entire gun room, not just a safe or two, an entire room dedicated to guns.

    • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
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      16 hours ago

      Enough to know he pointed a loaded gun at his daughter with the safety off and pulled the trigger, incidentally just after having an argument with her about trump; and that the maga fascist jury of peers in bumfuck texas decided to acquit him without a trial because “it was an accident” is apparently a reasonable explanation to them…