Schütze aus Utah, der einen der No-Kings-Demonstranten tötete und einen weiteren verletzte, ist immer noch nicht angeklagt

these are the kind of dilemmas that come up in a modern society that allows everybody to carry a firearm. A good bystander was killed by a good guy with a gun aiming at another good guy with a gun.

I guess it’s like an act of God or nature or something.

It’s blood red Utah so he probably never will be charged. Justice is not equal in our country — it entirely depends on what state you committed a crime in unless the offense is federal.

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It’s okay, the woman running for Congress in Illinois who tried to protect people from being kidnapped by ICE agents has been indicted.

This just needs to get a lot of negative national attention. Then they’ll charge him. The Mormons *hate* bad press. Blame this on them and I guarantee they’ll do anything to make it go away.

> “I think the police always felt that he was acting in good faith,” Tokson said of the volunteer.

Doesn’t matter if he was acting in good faith or not. He killed a person who was not a threat to him. He intended to use lethal force against one person and in the process, killed another.

> **76-5-203. Murder — Penalties– Affirmative defense and special mitigation — Separate offenses. — Affirmative defense and special mitigation — Separate offenses.**

> (2) An actor commits murder if:

> (a) the actor intentionally or knowingly causes the death of another individual;
> (b) intending to cause serious bodily injury to another individual, the actor commits an act clearly dangerous to human life that causes the death of the other individual;

> **76-5-204. Death of other than intended victim no defense.**

> In any prosecution for criminal homicide, evidence that the actor caused the death of a person other than the intended victim shall not constitute a defense for any purpose to criminal homicide.

There’s an affirmative defense section under (4), but the way it reads, the volunteer would be guilty of manslaughter. Simply carrying a gun isn’t a reason to shoot someone. If it were, someone would have been justified in shooting the volunteer.

https://le.utah.gov/xcode/Title76/Chapter5/76-5-S203.html?v=C76-5-S203_2025050720250507

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The guy who was killed was a contestant on Project Runway and seemed like one of the sweetest people ever.

The absurdity of a State where its legal to carry a rifle around but also legal to wildly shoot at someone carrying that rifle, even if it kills a random bystander. Certainty that’s what a well-regulated militia means.

Justice is coming for them all.

Police and lying, i’m shocked

Headline makes this sound like some right-winger shooting protestors. This wasn’t some politically motivated shooting, the shooter was part of the protest acting as a peacekeeper, and accidentally shot the victim who was behind what appeared to be an active shooter.

Well I guess we’re just going to put him up in the Kyle Rittenhouse Hall of Fame.

Pardon incoming!