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YoukaiSlayer posted...

I feel because it was the criminals who chose to willingly participate in the crime, their deaths should not legally be on her hands. If anyone innocent had died, I'm all for charging her with murder, but it seems silly to be charged for that reason.

To go to the purse snatching example, what would have happened if the old lady was fine but the thief had a heart attack? Would the friend that fled the scene with him be charged for the murder of the thief? Thats obviously absurd. I'm not really here to argue what the law is, just what it should be (since laws do get changed and all). Charging her with accessory to armed robbery seems fine to me.

Of course, luck does tend to play a part in your punishment. A drunk driver who swerves off the road and hits a tree committed the exact same actions as a drunk driver who swerves off the road onto a sidewalk with people on it but the punishment will of course be very different because of the different result.

There is clearly nothing wrong with the shooting itself. Even if they appear unarmed, the burden of finding that out for sure shouldn't be on the home owner. You break into a house, you accept you may get shot to death with no one to blame but yourself. No extra risk should have to be taken by the innocent person living at the home.

Very nice post with thought provoking questions!
Actually, what you said there was going to be my final post on the subject.
Laws can and should be changed.
Sometimes the law is taken advantage of in order to satisfy a desire for retribution.
I genuinely have no opinion on this.
It's another tragedy among thousands every day.
No amount of applied justice can do what really would be the only way to make this all right-
Go back in time and prevent the whole thing from happening in the first place...

Make good choices, people.
Bad ones cannot be reversed.
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