• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    There was a heated argument prior to the shooting.

    Is false right out of the gate.

    Sam Littler, Lucy’s boyfriend, who was with her on the trip, told the inquest she had become upset earlier that day after having “quite a big argument” with her father about Trump, who was due to be inaugurated as president later that month.

    Lucy had asked her father: “How would you feel if I was the girl in that situation and I’d been sexually assaulted?”

    He responded that it would not upset him that much.

    She was upset. He was cavalier.

    He said his girlfriend’s father had spoken in the past about taking the gun out of the box and walking around with it “like James Bond”.

    He treated his gun like a toy and his daughter paid for his childish attitude with her life. There’s a story here, but nobody on Lemmy seems to want to read it. They want to believe this house became some kind of war zone. The biter truth is that he fucked up because he didn’t take gun ownership seriously.

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      He treated his gun like a toy and his daughter paid for his childish attitude with her life.

      That’s not manslaughter?

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          And we aren’t allowed to question if the grand jury made a mistake? If so everything else being discussed is pointless.

          Do you think the situation you are describing sounds like it might be manslaughter? Enough that it is worth while to have a trial and find out?

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            And we aren’t allowed to question if the grand jury made a mistake?

            You can do whatever you want. Speculate, guesstimate, do spirit fingers until you commune with the deceased.

            Do you think the situation you are describing sounds like it might be manslaughter?

            I’m not an attorney or a judge, so I’m not equipped to make this decision. Off the cuff, it feels like involuntary manslaughter. You’d have to ask the GJ why they decided otherwise.

            But the social media posts and associated click-bait articles are describing it as capital murder. Nothing in the actual details of the case supports this.

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              God forbid anyone disagree with a judicial ruling! Oh wait, that’s our right as citizens of this country… This guy sounds like someone that would say “you should have just compiled”.

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              Your only defense is saying “The GJ decided not to.”

              Yes, we know. That is what people are complaining about.

              Your posts literally read as “you can’t complain that the GJ decided not to move forward because the GJ decided not to move forward.”