• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    No. Homicide at the least. You can’t argue to me that pointing a gun does not infer intent, or at least, I’d be willing to make that argument. If I were a prosecutor I’d find out what gun safety classes this guy had gone through and I can almost guarantee, if they’d been through any, the first thing they were taught was to not fire a gun at anything you do not intend to kill.

    Pointing a gun at someone or something shows intent. It’s not like he had it reasonably secured in. A holster and it misfired.

    He picked up the gun, he pointed the gun.

    Now we have intent.

    Whatever happens after that is his fault.

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      22 hours ago

      I don’t disagree with anything you said. I just haven’t seen anything that says he deliberately pointed it at her.

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        21 hours ago

        I don’t disagree with anything you said. I just haven’t seen anything that says he deliberately pointed it at her.

        Is there a way to accidentally pick up a gun and point it at someone? Just playing the part of prosecutor.

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          21 hours ago

          Sitting next to her holding the gun on your lap and it goes off? I still haven’t seen anything about deliberately pointing it.

          Absolutely not trying to defend anything thus guy did. He killed his daughter. He did so because of his own negligence. But like I said before I haven’t seen anything about deliberation pointing it at her.