No evidence linking him to the crime?
My question that I keep coming back to, but I have yet to hear answered:
Where is Luigi’s workshop?
He could just get elected president
Hell, just run for POTUS, and it means hands off for any federal investigation.
It sure would be great to have something to cheer for.
What the fuck. How did journalism get this utterly fucked?
Experts point to a phenomenon called jury nullification, which occurs when a jury votes to acquit a defendant even though they may believe they committed a crime.
No, there is no “may”! It is jury nullification only when the jury believes the defendant committed a crime. There is no “may” about it.
Fucking so afraid to actually write something they will insert this uncertain language everywhere to the point it doesn’t even make sense.
What is the point in reading your article, when even you don’t seem to believe what you are writing is correct?!
journalists tow the line.
if they stray from the path, they know they’ll get fired in an instant, and theres no qualms about firing them because there’s a hundred hungry replacements in the wings.
Yeah, the “may” totally changes it. If the jury thinks the defendant is not guilty, then it’s just a not guilty verdict, not jury nullification. For it to be jury nullification, the jury has to think the defendant is guilty.
“Phenomenon called Jury Nullification.”
Disgusting langauge, it makes it sound like a newfangled perversion of the justice system instead of an actual right that people have.
Here’s the thing: this is an Indian article and they specifically don’t have jury trials or nullification as a right.
nullification as a right
Neither does US recognize it as a right. No matter whether you believe jury nullification is a perversion of justice or irreplaceable bulwark against tyranny, it’s origin can’t be disputed. Jury nullification is not a right that was ever recognized explicitly, but an unintended side-effect of other rights (right to jury trial and jury verdicts being final).
The Constitution says that it is not spelling out all the rights just the ones that it has listed.
And those rights are human rights. They are not granted by the Constitution but merely recognized in a document.
Wake up. A piece of parchment did not create human rights. They exist because we are humans.
Neither does US recognize it as a right.
It kind of does. It says “By a trial jury of your peers”, which implies, more or less, the jury of your peers are the final arbiter.
He should just get nominated to become presisent. Every penalty, accisation and conviction will go away - just like magic.
Only if he runs for the GOP
Every major decision in this country seems to end up going the way the wealthy want.
They definitely want this to have maximum punishment to deter copycats.
This will never happen. You won’t find a jury in the country that will unanimously give a not guilty verdict. Best case is a hung jury twice in a row leading to a mistrial. Worst case they find one of the loopholes that lets the judge decide or they unanimously declare him guilty.
They don’t worry about all the school shootings because their kids go to private school which is a big reason why nothing is done (24 private school shootings vs 392 public school shootings for the past 25 years or so.) The working class families are the victims, so nobody in power really cares beyond lip service.
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Hey. That 24 vs 392 number, what’s the percentages? Like how many private schools VS public are we talking about?
Cause that number without context seems extremely misleading. Not trying to start shit. I just don’t know where you got those numbers or where I’d get the totals to compare.
Indeed, numbers on their own are meaningless. Based on this graph, private schools make up 10% of the enrollments. Public schools are 83% and charter schools make up the remaining 7%.
I have no idea where the charter schools are counted when it comes to school shootings though. If they are counted as public we get
Private: 24/10 = 2.4 shootings per percent of enrollment Public: 392/(83+7) = 4.36 shootings per percent of enrollmentand if they are counted as private we get
Private: 24/(10+7) = 1.41 shootings per percent of enrollment Public: 392/83 = 4.72 shootings per percent of enrollmentSo either way the public schools have more shootings by almost a factor 2 at least.
Cheers. Not as extreme as the bare numbers hint at, still a big difference.
I wonder why that is? Surely rich children have access to guns, (more than average access?) so is it the security at the school? Or is it mental health care? It is that being rich doesn’t make you as miserable and desperate as a kid? Hmmm.
They don’t suffer from economic instability, they have solid access to health care, and have a stable home.
Imagine if they had held a trial for the people who cut off the heads of the royalty and the court in France.
Technically, yes, it’s murder. But it was the only way out for the vast population to earn their feeedom from their oppressors. Because this is a response and legitimate defence against the institutionalized violence that the population had been facing.
They weave and dodge all accountability, demonstrating how untouchable they are by anything other than outright violence.
Boy, this, “Jury Nullification,” thing sure sounds like it would give everyday Americans a dangerous amount of power of our judicial system! I hope the media writes a lot more articles about it so that more people are aware of this terrible, terrible thing that they should never, ever do.
I know if I ever got on the jury I would go for innocent.
No! You mustn’t! It’s your duty as a juror to uphold the law! Even if you don’t agree with it an there are no enforceable penalties for voting with your conscience instead of the law!
Which is very likely why you would never get on jury for a case like this.
Just saying, that is how it works in the real world
How would they keep me off? I mean other than the fact I am not American of course. But someone that was?
Voir dire.
Its a process during jury selection, where each side gets a number of “freebies” where they can eliminate a potential juror for no reason at all. There are also legitimate reasons to bump one, as determined by questioning, but it has to be kinda proven… And it’s usually an easy sell to call for “bias” as the reason.
This is why we need to ensure everyone knows about jury nullifcation so it can no longer be a reason for keeping someone off a jury.
That’s OK, you’re still using up the prosecutor’s ammo during jury selection.
I was on one about 7 years ago with a guy who didn’t believe in prison. He was never going to vote guilty. Where I was you only needed 10 out of 12, which is very rare. And since then they changed to needing 12 out of 12, so quiet jury notification has already started…
Seems highly unlikely but we’ll see.
If Kyle Rittenhouse can walk free, so can Luigi. FREE LUIGI!
Technically Kyles gun was properly documented if not legally obtained, so Luigi’s homemade firearm is still a harder case to win.
Kyle also crossed state lines with said firearm explicitly looking for trouble.
Wasn’t he also a minor with a gun which is also illegal?
Unfortunately we weren’t able to prove that, his defence stated his friend kept it for him.
Don’t get me wrong, Kyle should be in prison, but the two cases aren’t very similar.
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The fuck is wrong with you
It’s completely legal to make your own firearms. I have a few guns made from 80% lowers.
Not in NYS, unfortunately. To even touch a pistol, legally, you need a permit here. Even if you made it.
The only exception is black powder pistols, unless you have powder and shot as well.
But you didn’t 3D print your lower like Luigi did. As I understand the lower is legally “the gun”.
For a pistol, it’s the fire control assy that’s “The gun”.
Nope. I’m not who you replied to, but you’re misunderstanding.
When people talk about “80 percent” in this context, they mean the firearm. For an AR, it is the lower receiver. Whether it was 3D printed has no legal bearing, federally. I could carve one out of wood or styrofoam, or fashion one from modeling clay, it doesn’t change the law.
Federally, and in most states, it is legal (for anyone who is otherwise allowed to own guns) to manufacture a firearm. Period. No paperwork, no serial number, no background check. Nada. This is how the law currently works.
The media likes to refer to these as “ghost guns” because it sounds spooky.
In California and Connecticut, it needs a serial number permanently marked on it even as an 80% lower. 13 other States also have laws which touch on this.
It is my understanding that Mangione employed an 80% pistol, so it was likely a Glock-compatible copycat.
Luigi’s issue is the non NFA registered suppressor plus all those NY gun laws he broke (in addition to the homicide).
Even if registered, it’s still illegal to possess in NYS. Its not legal to possess any NFA items in NYS, unless you’re a cop.
homicide*executionAnd to clarify I don’t normally believe in vigilante justice but these people removed themselves from the justice system so why should they be protected by it?
Homicide isn’t just a legal term. See also fratricide, sororicide, patricide, matricide, suicide, regicide, etc.
I milled the lower out of a block of aluminum. It’s 100% legal to make your own firearms in this country. Stop talking out of your ass about things you know nothing about.
Defense of others. He acted to prevent the deaths of millions at the hands of a monster.
He stopped a mass murderer
He didn’t though. UHC is still in operation along with the rest of the for-profit healthcare system. If anything, UHC has gotten even worse based on recent stories.
I wish he had done that, I do. I sympathize with why he did it.
But no matter how much people want this to be the case, you cannot assassinate your way out of capitalism. You simply can’t.
He didn’t though.
He got rid of ONE mass murderer. The problem is, we stopped him [Luigi] from completing his mission.
I would agree in the sense that Labor affects capitalism more than attrition. The machine can always replace a meatbag here and there, but something like a strike, or a mass payment freeze is much harder as that hits the bottom line.
Mobilizing the amount of people required though in today’s world would take something BIG to break through the constant noise and call people to action.
That’s still one mass murderer down despite many more left to go.
This is such a silly take… This is like saying killing a Nazi officer in World War 2 does zero good.
Sure, the Nazi’s could use the death of their officer to spin up propaganda, and do terrible things. But a dead Nazi is a dead Nazi.
In this case, a previously untouchable, evil elite was cut down on the public stage. He was an evil man that hid behind success at all costs as a vehicle to praise and validation… And some random nobody stood up and said “no, I don’t respect your success, you’re evil.” and shot him.
This isn’t how capitalism ends, it’s how justice and the end of invulnerable elites begins. This is how we end one of the most destructive societal values America still holds. Not with bullets, but with open, brutal contempt for those that reap rewards off the suffering of others.
I need you to take a step back and realise in that comment you’re calling for open warfare in the USA against Republicans and independents.
If the Healthcare CEO is a nazi officer then the federal government is high command and the voters are the grunts.
You’re saving 0 lives with a civil war. Thats just begging for the start of World War 3.
you’re calling for open warfare in the USA against Republicans and independents.
Ok? I fail to see the issue, since they have already declared war on the working class.
look at you lefty, calling everyone you don’t like a Nazi again. don’t you know this is why people become Nazis? just because he was filling the trains to the death camps doesn’t make him a bad person, in fact he most likely grew up on a farm, so he’s actually a working class hero.
Poe’s Law, some people actually believe what you’re saying.
/s exists for a reason on the internet, where toneless text reigns supreme.
Not with that attitude.
Yes he did. He stopped ONE mass murderer. On to the next….
No. He did not. He stopped someone helping to facilitate that murder who was easily replaced and the murder continued unabated, if not gotten worse.
Yet again, I sympathize with him. I wish this was anywhere near enough. People seem to think this will be the end of capitalist medicine and they will be waiting for that end to happen for a very long time under Trump.
Why people have the idea that Republicans are going to be like, “oh, you’re killing CEOs? We better give everyone free healthcare!” I don’t know. That does not jibe with the entire history of them and their policies. What they do is circle the wagons and double down. That should be obvious by now.
If you’re attempting to know what Mangione’s intention was, the actual result is irrelevant. And what’s the probability that Mangione’s goal was the complete eradication of the capitalist system, or even causing UHC to shut down? Using propaganda of the deed to raise awareness that might lead to public pressure and/or regulatory chance, maybe.
Didn’t their stock value drop by tens of billions? I would say that’s something, awareness at the very least. But it’s just a beginning. Certainly his Intent was to prevent mass murder.
If their stocks drop they can still use the difference in buy and sale values to deduct taxable income, meaning it will always be worth roughly 37% to the CEOs even if it becomes near worthless.
Plus they can just buy it back and wait for a rebound if they want to. It doesnt affect their normal operation.
They probably loaned their own stocks out to short sell and made profits.
I agree. I think that was his intent. I just don’t think it was successful. Even if UHC loses value (and the value it lost was actually negligible compared to its revenue even though it sounds like a lot), how many other insurance companies are out there making money hand over fist?
I’m just wondering if, in a few years when insurance companies are still raising premiums and still denying dying people care that people are still going to act like this is all it takes.
I’m not attempting to know anything about him. The person I talked to said that he stopped a mass murderer. He didn’t because the mass murderer is UHC. He cut the toenail off a mass murderer and UHC is still around and doing exactly what they had been doing.
“Maybe possibly the serial killer will be stopped if we just make people aware they exist” is nonsense.
And I have no idea how people can live in a capitalist system all of their lives and not understand that everyone in a corporation is expendable, from top to bottom.
This has nothing to do with his motivations and everything to do with all the people thinking that somehow if enough CEOs are murdered, the Republican-dominated government will embrace socialism. It’s ridiculous.
The person I talked to said that he stopped a mass murderer. He didn’t because the mass murderer is UHC.
Corporations are not people, as much as the GOP would love us to pretend they are.|
Corporations act as the people in charge of them choose to act. So, the culpability lies with the executives. And, since the CEO was engaged in giving orders to murder people, Luigi stopped one mass murderer.
That doesn’t mean they are all gone, and mass murder is once and for all stopped. Its a long task to finish.
Except nothing stopped so thats a pretty shit defence.
idk it stopped a few of them from implementing some even worse shit for a few months
If you’re talking about Anthem’s anesthesia coverage, that reversal was announced before the assassination.
Sounds like something a health care exec would say
He says that most of us despise insurance companies and have had bad experiences with them, but that doesn’t mean we think people should be going around killing insurance executives in the street.
Don’t be so sure.
This take seems in stark contrast to the overwhelming support he got from all sides of politics in the US.
Plenty of people feel his actions were justified.
I remain genuinely surprised nobody tried anything at the inauguration.
I think people are dissuaded by a few factors.
The first is obviously it’s very difficult.
The second is you’re almost certainly going to be caught. All the resources in the country will be spent finding you.
Also, and I think this is potentially the most important, is the result isn’t worth it. It’s not a “cut off the head of the snake” situation. Trump isn’t the end of this. Hell, Vance might be even worse. If Trump is murdered he becomes a martyr. That’s not what you want to happen.
It’s not going to improve anything, so why throw your life away attempting to do something nearly impossible?
I think the only option for killing Trump that has a good outcome is someone in his cabinet or in a senior position in the military does it to stop him from doing something. Anything else probably strengthens his base.
Oh, I was thinking less about Trump specifically and more about Musk, Bezos, and Zuckerberg all in the same place at one time. Also, Cook and Pichai though I think those two are less generally loathed.
Thats because the people who actually go around killing people are mostly on his side.
And whomever killed the CEO, or people like them, clearly planned it out well enough to succeed. They would take one look at the inauguration and realize that’s an impossible task.
A President has lots of security. You can’t just jump him on the street and sneak away.
There’s an entire industrial complex for preventing it.
Theoretically low level officers would make better targets as it would drastically increase security costs to try and protect them.
The moment it went indoors any chance went to 0%
Inside the Capitol? Would not have been feasible.
Yeah that place is impenetrable.
Violence is only acceptable against the poors.
Every time someone posits “outcome might not be terrible” hypotheticals about the US “justice” system, I turn into Hawkeye, and not the Alan Alda one…
What’s up with these news sources from India? They keep turning up in my Google News feed and they’re often obvious bullshit
Pakistan: “First time?”
There’s always somebody winning at SEO and gaming the algorithm, and there are few tactics more effective than “Exciting and Wrong”
We need to release him so he can work on Elon next.
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He should go free because he did nothing wrong
Not guilty
Mistrial on the grounds of fuck all this stupid bullshit
Which is still true if they can prove he did it.
