• Tgo_up@lemm.ee
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    3 days ago

    How tf can killing a single person with a handgun be classified as terrorism?

    • Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee
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      3 days ago

      Because they don’t like him.

      I mean Dylan fucking Roof shot dead 9 black people and they didn’t consider it terrorism.

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        Dylan Roof did get charged with hate crimes and was convicted on all 33 counts, leading to a death sentence. Stacking terrorism charges on top of that would have been pointless.

        Mangione, by contrast, is getting charged in a state without capital punishment. You need the terror charge to make this a First Degree Murder case. Otherwise he’s looking at parole after 15 years.

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          2 days ago

          This sounds like a legal playbook for would-be assassins. Kill at the cost of 15 years with parole max

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      2 days ago

      As long as the action terrorised a large enough group of people it’s terrorism, it’s just this time, the terrorised people are the rich cunts hiding in their mansions like the traitorous cowards they are.