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in some states that is just not true. In some states if you rob a bank and cop shoots at you but misses and hits and kills a bystander, then YOU the robber who
by senectus1 7y ago
in some states that is just not true.
In some states if you rob a bank and cop shoots at you but misses and hits and kills a bystander, then YOU the robber who did NOT shoot anyone will be charged with manslaughter.
that is sort of what is happening here.
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- TimTheTinker 7y agoWow, that strikes me as really unjust and backward. So if a policeman is willfully negligent and doesn’t keep up his target practice, his own lack of skill could result in someone else being charged with manslaughter. I disagree: If anyone is charged, it should be him—though I do recognize the court would rightly not hold him responsible if a reasonably competent person couldn’t have been expected to do better. If it worked that way, perhaps people would think twice more often before discharging a firearm - and fewer people would be harmed.