• GNUTup@lemm.ee
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    29 days ago

    It absolutely is considered goading. If lifting your shirt to reveal a gun holstered can be considered a threat (one that police can legally shoot you over) then carrying a rifle at a protest and starting shit with the protestors is also a threat.

    He didn’t go there to make his voice heard — he went there to intimidate and kill.

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      29 days ago

      then carrying a rifle at a protest and starting shit with the protestors is also a threat.

      If a person threatens someone and gets attacked, he cannot claim self-defense. The jury decided he did not threaten them. It would have been murder otherwise and he would be in prison.

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          29 days ago

          So why don’t we have you decide instead of juries? You clearly know better than the rest of the population. /s

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            29 days ago

            /uj

            If every version of you present on a jury could be replaced with someone like me, the justice system would probably function better than it does now.

            /rj

            Get fucked, bootlicker.