Hey, you know what seems like a real bad defense for killing people? Being afraid of their gay. While it's not the most commonly invoked "self-defense" -- certainly not as common as "I had to kill that unarmed black teenager because I was afraid of his black," for example -- it has been used more than zero times, which is more than zero times too many.
<i>&ndash; if, among other things, the crime &ldquo;is committed in the heat of passion resulting from a reasonable provocation.&rdquo;</i>
So I can still kill my gay neighbor if he&#039;s boning my wife?
I&#039;m not proud of it, but I once killed a man wearing a kilt. It wasn&#039;t just the shock of the bagpipe music, but he wasn&#039;t wearing underwear. Oh the horror! It was terrifying and intimidating. Even after all of these years it continues to haunt me, because in retrospect, he may have just been an old lady with a flute working a Salvation Army stand. Thankfully, none of that matters because this is America and I was afraid enough to be innocent. The system works.
&quot;And we should not eliminate defenses when there&rsquo;s no precedent for their misuse.&quot;
JFC, there is a lot of precedent for their misuse. That&#039;s why &quot;gay panic defense&quot; is even a thing. Remember Matthew Shepard? Scott Amedure?
First they didn&#039;t let me shoot the probable gays ... and I said nothing. Then they didn&#039;t let me shoot the probable muslims ... and I said nothing. Then they didn&#039;t let me shoot the probable zombies ...
It&#039;s another Advance Internet site, they own about 25 local papers. The comments are almost the same in every one. Try cleveland.com, al.com or nola.com
Do you mean that this fascist poltician doesn&#039;t want people to be able to use the &quot;cause he/she was icky and made me uncomfortable&quot; defense?
It&#039;s a war on Christianity I tell you! A war!
This is a guy who makes his living pulling the wool over jurors&#039; eyes. Of course he&#039;s going to praise their genius, and oppose any law that infringes on his creative wool-pulling.
<i>&ndash; if, among other things, the crime &ldquo;is committed in the heat of passion resulting from a reasonable provocation.&rdquo;</i>
So I can still kill my gay neighbor if he&#039;s boning my wife?
If you could somehow work Bohemians into it, it would be a Mimi mime meme.
This was the theme of a &quot;Rumpole of the Bailey&quot; episode: &quot;The Guardsman&#039;s Defense.&quot;
I&#039;m not proud of it, but I once killed a man wearing a kilt. It wasn&#039;t just the shock of the bagpipe music, but he wasn&#039;t wearing underwear. Oh the horror! It was terrifying and intimidating. Even after all of these years it continues to haunt me, because in retrospect, he may have just been an old lady with a flute working a Salvation Army stand. Thankfully, none of that matters because this is America and I was afraid enough to be innocent. The system works.
&quot;And we should not eliminate defenses when there&rsquo;s no precedent for their misuse.&quot;
JFC, there is a lot of precedent for their misuse. That&#039;s why &quot;gay panic defense&quot; is even a thing. Remember Matthew Shepard? Scott Amedure?
But it&#039;s still OK to blame Twinkies, right?
But if he&#039;s BLACK and gay, it&#039;s all right then, right?
I once killed a man in Reno, just to watch him die. In my defense, I thought mebbe he was Gay. Forgot to ask, though. But he might&#039;ve been.
Was his name Sue?
First they didn&#039;t let me shoot the probable gays ... and I said nothing. Then they didn&#039;t let me shoot the probable muslims ... and I said nothing. Then they didn&#039;t let me shoot the probable zombies ...
It&#039;s another Advance Internet site, they own about 25 local papers. The comments are almost the same in every one. Try cleveland.com, al.com or nola.com
The Golem?
I was under the impression that the Matthew Shepard Act did so. Are federal prosecutors just not swinging the big stick they were given?
Do you mean that this fascist poltician doesn&#039;t want people to be able to use the &quot;cause he/she was icky and made me uncomfortable&quot; defense?
It&#039;s a war on Christianity I tell you! A war!
It&#039;s worth noting that many, if not most, are in NJ&#039;s juror pool.
This is a guy who makes his living pulling the wool over jurors&#039; eyes. Of course he&#039;s going to praise their genius, and oppose any law that infringes on his creative wool-pulling.