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cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/9997521

To the person from lemm.ee who reported this post as "terrorism" go fuck yourself.

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[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Murder is the wrong word here. Maybe manslaughter at worst. He's was a teenager that put himself in the wrong place sure, but after being chased by armed assailants, tripping and falling, yelling for them to back up while one person pointed a fucking gun at him while he was laying on the ground, and then firing after they continued to advance on him... Definitely not murder at that point. Not to mention he then immediately went to the police to turn himself in. He tried to de-escalate, he tried to escape, and he immediately turned himself in to law enforcement after the shooting. Other than electing to be at the wrong place, at the wrong time, he did everything that any reasonable person would do in that situation to defend themselves.

I'm not saying he's a hero, I'm not saying he was right to be there "defending" property that no one asked him to defend. I'm not saying he did the right thing by showing up to a protest armed with a lethal weapon. I think he a fucking dumbass military cosplayer with a main-character personality complex and a wisdom dump stat, but I don't think he's a murderer.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think it's murder when you take a gun to a place specifically to oppose a group you hate, then you kill multiple of those said people that you knew before leaving home that you hated.

But I'm just weird like that

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I guess Ukrainians are murdering Russians right now?

Seems about right, but your definition is very broad, and definitely would not hold up in a court of law.

[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

How delusional do you need to be to make this correlation? Did Ukraine drive across country lines to participate in another countries conflict?

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

He traveled across state lines with a rifle with intention to shoot someone