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To be credible, the person making the threat needs to be able to act on it. If I say "I am going to shoot you right now" but am not holding a gun, that's not a
by henryfjordan 7y ago
To be credible, the person making the threat needs to be able to act on it. If I say "I am going to shoot you right now" but am not holding a gun, that's not a credible threat.
I assume the police saw a 14yo who can't take an Uber by themselves and cannot buy a gun and said "yeah, no way he could follow this one through".
Edit: I'm not saying the kid shouldn't be punished, or that the law shouldn't be something else. This is just answering how that particular tweet that was being discussed was interpreted by police to not constitute a "credible threat"
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- xapata 7y agoI'd guess there are more than a few 14-year-old children with access to a gun and an Uber account.
- Waterluvian 7y agoRegardless of that, isn't it still a crime this child committed?
- drcongo 7y agoShe tweeted a picture of herself with a gun _with_ the threat. It says so right in the article.
- chaoticmass 7y agoIt was a razor scooter held up in such a way as to look like a gun.
- GaryNumanVevo 7y agoIt's clearly an AR-15 hand guard Please stop spreading disinformation. https://i.redd.it/hxurx642mwd31.jpg https://i.redd.it/hxurx642mwd31.jpg
- throwawaywego 7y agoAnd for context: https://i.imgur.com/NpvySvG.jpg https://i.imgur.com/NpvySvG.jpg (Pewdiepie) (It's edgy humor/let kids play on their skateboard)
- GaryNumanVevo 7y agoThis is a bad faith argument, Pewdiepie isn't directly threatening anyone. Soph was directly making a threat.
- throwawaywego 7y agoShe can't keep getting away with this.
- brohee 7y agoThey totally come with Picatinny rails...
- tzakrajs 7y agoPolice will interpret and enforce the law in ways that aren't always legal. I wouldn't consider their interpretation of what a credible threat is to be canonical.
- anigbrowl 7y agoApologies for forgetting to answer this at the time, but there seem few if any obstacles toa smart 14 yo taking an uber ride and you seem to have overlooked the possibility that her parents already own one or more guns, which is extremely common in the US.