tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post6105061323779892473..comments2024-02-05T03:41:13.688+01:00Comments on Mikeb302000: 1st Degree Murder Conviction for Wheel ManAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09806175370305006933noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-78863018655921656402010-03-09T10:26:12.331+01:002010-03-09T10:26:12.331+01:00I don't think that they are talking about the ...I don't think that they are talking about the sentance...<br /><br />regardless, the wheelman had the knowledge of what was happening and the ability to stop it, the blood is on his hands too. By acommidating the shooter, he commited murder by proxy.<br />140 years sounds too harsh to me as well, but 10? No, I'm thinking 25-ish.kevinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-43201790052787988122010-03-09T09:20:24.604+01:002010-03-09T09:20:24.604+01:00For the accomplice, 10 years would have been about...For the accomplice, 10 years would have been about right, not 10 times that. Remember <a href="http://mikeb302000.blogspot.com/2009/01/lillo-gets-10-years.html" rel="nofollow">Lillo</a>?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09806175370305006933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-43752095733879558412010-03-09T05:11:17.574+01:002010-03-09T05:11:17.574+01:00MikeB: “But the decision to charge and convict the...MikeB: “But the decision to charge and convict the driver for 1st degree murder is absurd. I'm all for shared responsibility, but this is something different.”<br /><br />But what if he also actively resists gun control legislation? Would his 140 year sentence be justified then?<br /><br />-TSTSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-32127730293070491942010-03-09T02:39:15.790+01:002010-03-09T02:39:15.790+01:00"I'm all for shared responsibility, but t..."I'm all for shared responsibility, but this is something different."<br /><br />I have to echo what Shrimp said. You want to hold gun owners responsible for crimes committed by people they don't even know, yet think this is "something different"?<br /><br />You are completely backwards.AztecRedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00027951757285806109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-30180345609601337072010-03-08T16:53:52.375+01:002010-03-08T16:53:52.375+01:00I don't see how this is any different than wha...I don't see how this is any different than what you have claimed every gun owner should somehow be aware of.<br /><br />You have claimed that gun owners should bear the responsibility of folks that have gone off the deep end and killed people, even if we never knew them or associated with them---all on the faulty premise that because we promote the right to bear arms, that we somehow also promote irresponsible or illegal behavior.<br /><br />It also is faulty because you wish to hold us responsible, even though we had no definitive evidence of a person going off the deep end beforehand. But you claim that we should have known anyway, and are responsible anyway.<br /><br />Here, in this situation, the driver did know that a crime was to be carried out. He not only knew beforehand, he actively participated in committing the crime. That makes him an accomplice. He is complicit in the crime.Shrimpnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-51002605328287500342010-03-08T15:20:23.794+01:002010-03-08T15:20:23.794+01:00I'm all for shared responsibility, but this is...<i>I'm all for shared responsibility, but this is something different.</i><br /><br />You are right, in this instance the person had knowledge of the crime beforehand and the means to stop it. Very unlike the "shared responsibility" of gun owners.RuffRidrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13597758856457029471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-16475498361919570112010-03-08T13:06:51.943+01:002010-03-08T13:06:51.943+01:00Mikeb says:I'm all for shared responsibility, ...Mikeb says:<br><br><i>I'm all for shared responsibility, but this is something different.</i><br><br>How is it different, Mikeb? Sounds like a triumph for the "shared responsibility" theory of justice. Does the problem lie in the fact that those convicted have Hispanic names, meaning it's not those nasty old southern redneck white boys who are going to prison?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com