Re: Kyle Rittenhouse acquitted of all charges
Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2021 11:41 am
I think the context of my post would have indicated that I was talking specifically about the homicide/murder charges, and not general firearms offences.IvanV wrote: ↑Thu Nov 25, 2021 11:28 amClearly his actions would have got him many years in prison in Britain, even if he was acquitted of both murder and manslaughter, because of the extremely serious and aggravated nature of the firearms offence as British law would see it.discovolante wrote: ↑Thu Nov 25, 2021 10:15 amWhether or not Kyle Rittenhouse would have been acquitted here I dunno.
The mere fact of intentionally having a loaded gun with you at a demonstration in Britain would probably be sufficiently "negligent" to pass a manslaughter negligence test in Britain, even if the gun went off accidentally.
But really it's an impossible question to ask whether he would have been acquitted of various homicide offences in Britain, because precisely the same situation - including the crucial state of mind that matters for such offences - cannot occur. Someone who takes such a gun to a demonstration in Britain, where it is utterly illegal, cannot possibly be in remotely the same state of mind as someone who does it in the USA. There were apparently quite a few people carrying firearms at that demo, because people do routinely carry firearms in some parts of the USA.