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While B5B7's statement is obviously hyperbolic, it is inarguable that the cultural attitudes towards guns in the United States is radically different than it is in just about any other country. It is precisely because of this cultural attitude that makes it so hard to come up with any sort of commo...

a crime by bill of attainder This is really all that needs to be said - and I don't normally agree with AD. Some of you people are fucking despicable, wanting to try an old man who clearly did not want to be there for doing some bookkeeping at Auschwitz. Maybe you could try the entire nation of Fin...

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Could we please not have another major war in my lifetime? Is that too much to ask?

Amazing as it may seem, avoiding offending you with a major war is not an actual foreign policy goal.

She's being rather tasteless, but if you're poor, you really should not be spending money on tobacco. You shouldn't even if you're rich, but if it's spending money you don't have AND giving you cancer that's worse than just cancer. CBS Smoking kills one person every 6½ seconds, and poor people tend ...

I agree, but I haven't found any case law regarding duration. I'd also like to point out that it is unlikely that police will waste time and resources observing a random house. They won't choose houses purely at random. But if there's no law against 'police stalking' by way of stakeouts done from p...

Conqueror: You are incorrect about the ways someone can become a citizen. Don't waste your time talking back, either. I am an immigration agent, and I was first in my class in Law. Therefore, let's have a little class on visas, immigration, and routes to citizenship. The pertinent legislation is con...

Yes, I did miss that. My apologies. This only escalates the unbelievable level of negligence and ineptitude displayed here.

The level of incompetence displayed here is beyond astounding. What is astounding to me is that there was, according to Mr. Bean, only a daily count. A daily count is inadequate. At the station I work at, we count arrestees 3 times daily, at shift change, and the outgoing agents do not go home until...

It was in Castles of Steel, but I can't find the exact quote at the moment.

We should give people the chance to develop themselves, instead of declaring them lost causes, because people do have the potential to turn their life around. In fact, perhaps instead of throwing people in prison and looking the other way while they get raped, beaten, tortured, and starved, we shou...

When, in your view, does rape become acceptable as a penalty for petty theft. Is it after the second time or the third time. I really would like to know. When, in your view, does rape become acceptable as a penalty for any crime? Anyone going to prison has a risk of being raped - and for that matte...

This is literally what you just said: "Rape is a proportional penalty for a succession of petty thefts." No, it isn't. Because that is a common consequence of time in a state prison, which is where this guy has a good chance of going for a FELONY CONVICTION, which is what I am personally ...

So basically what you're saying is that we have only two alternatives; we can either take petty thieves and remove them from anything but the fringes of society, or we can have violent chaos. This is actually a common methodology of fascism- present an abhorrent plan in context to make it seem like...

Trespassing just means they told him to leave and he refused. But does that mean that public intoxication or using swears in public should result in being charged with crimes that can force people to the fringes of society? Because that is what is happening right now with this guy. Maybe there can ...

Which is the greater social cost? The loss of thousands of dollars a year (at the top end) for a corporation that had a net income of 5 billion dollars a year (making this literally a drop in the fucking bucket), or the expenditure of police time, court time, employee time, and the like, all just t...

So in other words, it isn't that soda theft has somehow become a felony, it's that repeated petty theft is a felony. While a bit silly for a $1 soda, the fact is that if he'd paid for his damn soda it wouldn't have been an issue. I don't know what it is Florida is supposed to have "done again&q...

In that case, they're all equally inept because the motion to dismiss you cited clearly refers to aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. If allvoices is merely jumping on the bandwagon with the rest of the press in that regard, fine, but a review of the motion reveals that they are still blatantly...

So... firing a warning shot is attempted murder (or punished as if it were, "use of deadly force" or whatever) under circumstances where shooting the guy in the head would likely be treated as self-defense? Please tell me I misunderstand you. She's not charged with attempted murder, she's...

Uh, point of order, there was supposedly, only a ten pound difference between Martin and Zimmerman, along with Martin being taller than Zimmerman. No Trayvon Martin was 6'1" and weighed 150lbs, according to his family (which was a lower stated weight and taller height than the police report ga...

I meant this in reference to them turning off the camera. Whether or not they were justified in the shooting the impression I got (Which I'm now aware isn't neccesarily correct. Didn't even know there were Taser cameras). It didn't matter whether or not they had reason to enter if they breached pro...

Except it is his (a Pr guy's) FUCKING JOB to say what he means with precise clarity. Actually, no it is not, precisely because language is fluid and open to interpretation. It is generally not possible to discuss anything other than the simplest of situations with the kind of precision you are dema...

Techno_Union, what you are missing is that if you reasonably believe you are being threatened with deadly force, and it later turns out that the person actually was doing something else, it can still be acceptable to use deadly force in self-defense against them. Not only that, but the facts must be...

I don't think it's even nitpicking- it's just basic attempts to be neutral about facts you don't know. It doesn't cost you anything to say "we are investigating" in a neutral way: "the officer claims self defense, we're investigating whether that's true" just sounds like so much...

I think you shouldn't allow yourself to get caught up in what basically amounts to nitpicking the choice of words of the Public Information Officers, or whoever gave the statement to the media. Investigators attached to the case do not make comments to the media. If it were just some guy, sure. How...

Not really. The latter is more easily explained as just an easy way of stating the former, especially since it makes no sense to investigate when you already know what happened. Do the finer points of language escape you? I am assuming here for the sake of linguistic argument that indeed, we have a...