Re:Pepper Spray Sales Soar on Amazon
by 0x8BADF00D on Monday June 01, 2020 @06:06PM
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> If you pick up a gun, you are actively planning the possibility of a shoot.
That is exactly what I stated earlier. Nobody is planning to shoot someone with malice aforethought in a self-defense scenario. As you say, they are planning for the possibility that they might shoot someone. Those are two very different things.
> I think we are just sparring over the definition of "planning". Have a good day!
It matters a lot in a legal context. If you state the assertion that “everyone who picks up a gun is planning to shoot someone”, then automatically everyone who ever picked up a gun is guilty of a very specific crime. The distinction matters a lot.
That is exactly what I stated earlier. Nobody is planning to shoot someone with malice aforethought in a self-defense scenario. As you say, they are planning for the possibility that they might shoot someone. Those are two very different things.
> I think we are just sparring over the definition of "planning". Have a good day!
It matters a lot in a legal context. If you state the assertion that “everyone who picks up a gun is planning to shoot someone”, then automatically everyone who ever picked up a gun is guilty of a very specific crime. The distinction matters a lot.