Thanks for your response - sounds like your head is screwed on right in that respect. I still have no doubt that it is prejudicing the reaction for many people (myself included, though to the other end of the spectrum, where I am probably more willing to forgive/mitigate the blame (while also trying to walk a tightrope that avoids infantilizing FN people from being able to take appropriate responsibility for their actions).
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Originally Posted by Envitro
In my opinion, (and opinion is key here), the kid shouldn't necessarily be out on bail due to the heinous, violent and extremely careless nature of the crime. He could have killed four people in that vehicle, and possibly more if it had collided with another one on the highway after he pulled the trigger. Sure, he's accused and not convicted yet and I'm sure the judge ruled that he's not a danger to the general public, so I'll live with that decision and move on with my life.
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Extremely careless seems very likely...I'm not sure we really have any evidence to support heinous? When it comes down to it, the parties involved may not even understand very well what the hell happened; the RCMP have probably pieced things together reasonably well, but I doubt it's crystal clear for them, either. The only thing I'm sure of is that the media and general public know next to nothing other than a bullet ended up in a brain and this kid probably pulled the trigger, and that this is an incredibly effed up situation.
The close-call hypothetical results are very tricky things to deal with when meting out discipline (we see it nearly every night on the ice where a dirty, potentially career-ending hit gets little to no attention, because the recipient happens to get up and skate away). While your hypothetical head-on car crash merits consideration, then it should be considered to the same level on every DUI, distracted, or careless driving case. The close-call rational can also go the other way - if the bullet is an inch or two different then we definitely would not be talking about this anymore (if it ever made the news in the first place).