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Originally Posted by Envitro
Our legal system is so ####ed.
You almost kill a guy with an illegal gun and 14 charges in total, but I forget my registration certificate while taking my pistol to the range for practice or competition and I get an automatic 2 years in jail, no bail, no parole... a summary conviction for a paperwork "crime". It doesn't matter that it's registered and that they can look it up in 15 seconds...
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I don't want to de-rail this much further, but I hope you can honestly ask yourself this question: would your reaction be different if this had happened near almost any other small town in Alberta, instead of Morley?
It's okay either way, no judgment, no need to answer here...I just really encourage you (and any others who have had strong knee-jerk reactions in this thread) to be honest with yourselves and ask why a few times.
FWIW, I don't doubt there would be just as much condemnation of a dumb 16 y.o. white boy, but I don't think the tone of reaction would include nearly as much presumed guilt