You just shot down your own argument.  Do you not know what "concurrent" means?

I’d rather go the other way here. McDowell’s sentence was plain draconian.  Honestly I can't see why either of these things is criminal at all.

The going rate for that is $20-50 million, depending on the school. We’ve reached the point where single digits millionaires are scaring and clawing to survive.

Your observation is right but your conclusion is wrong. Those suburban white boys start shooting because they have (a) outraged entitlement and (b) expensive guns.

And that, my children, is why they never suffer for it.

Nonsense. They didn’t popularize the word, they just showed how it was being used. White people want the word to go away so they don’t have to face the reality behind it. The word isn’t the real problem, it’s just a symbol of the real oppression: red lining, school to prison, murder by police, etc...

Right?

That’s not what we’re talking about here, but sure.  Now, do you mean ACAA?

There are only three categories: service, support, and pet. The first is covered by ADA, performs a specific task, has the strongest protections. The second is covered under FHA and ACAA, is required for emotional health, and has lower protections.  The last is Fido.

She didn’t.  It’s not required.

I can see how extreme trauma and executive dysfunction could lead to this but, if so, the guy needs to be committed for community safety.

Why are we talking about this?

I keep rereading rereading Florida chapter 782 and it’s a f**king mess. There are seperate categories of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd degree murder but they are largely dependant on connection to another crime. You are probably looking at this from a model penal code understanding (as I first learned) in which it would be murder/…

I find it weird that some states would give it to them. It’s inherited from english common law, giving the jury power to assess a crime in light of community standards. The model penal code was developed, among other things, to eliminate that. The idea being to eliminate disparities, often racist, between communities.…

That’s an incredibly weird way of doing things.  As I said, each state has its own way but that’s truly unique.  In every state code I’ve studied to date self defense is an either/or proposition.

That’s not how a claim of self defense works. It’s an affirmative defense at trial wherein the jury evaluates it as exculpatory and leads to a finding of guilty or not guilty. The circumstances you list are mitigating factors taken into account at sentencing. In this case it’s manslaughter because Florida law defines…

Which legal definition?  State legal codes vary.  In Florida this is manslaughter, in Washington it would be murder/2.

Not all states define it that way. Florida is one that defines manslaughter to include killing in a hot temper.  Murder in FL is either premeditated or occuring while committing specific other crimes.  In Washington, for example, this would be murder/2 because they use different definitions.  Either way the sentencing…

Quite possibly.

That gives us two possibilities: either Florida acts as a magnet for crazies or something in the water supply makes people crazy.