> If you leave the house every day unarmed but the day of an alleged crime you're seen leaving the house armed that fact can be used to show intent to commit a

> If you leave the house every day unarmed but the day of an alleged crime you're seen leaving the house armed that fact can be used to show intent to commit a crime with that weapon. It doesn't however. Say I am usually do not carry a weapon, but today I wanted to go to the range, and I take one with me. And while cleaning it up, I accidentally shoot somebody. Does my taking a weapon means I intended to shoot them today? Not at all - I could have shot anybody at any day, it's just that the day I went to the range with the weapon was today, if I went yesterday, the same could have happened and would be as unintentional. Or, for example, on the way to the range, the same day, I meet my sworn enemy, we get into a fight, and I shoot him. Did I intend it? Not at all, I didn't even know I'd meet him today, and if I met him any other day it'd probably wouldn't happen, as I wouldn't have the weapon, but again it doesn't prove intent. It's a logical fallacy to conclude that if something happened, then all events prior to that without which it couldn't happen were purposely arranged with the goal of that event to happen.