According to the bill, there would be no prosecutions in cases where the life of the mother was in direct danger, but there did not seem to be any procedure to state whether this is the case until after any operation (maybe the previous procedure would have been used in this case, but this is unclear and the present…

Except that Black children are 18 times more likely to be tried as adults than White children in similar cases. So, yeah: her being tried as an adult is an entirely plausible scenario.

But the lady who sent her kids o the park while she went to a job interview?

That one’s definitely going to prison.

Yeah. If she had really concentrated she could have used her Jedi powers to get the gun to fly out of his hands into hers and that way it would have been self defence. Clearly she didn’t think this through/ use her telekinesis abilities to full effect.

There’s actually some really interesting and gruesome feminist legal theory about self-defense laws. Basically it boils down to: self defense laws are made for someone defending themselves in a fight to the death that’s moving quickly and happening right at the time of the death or injury. Women’s violence, and the…

This. I called the cops on my father several times, and nothing ever came of it. The last time I called he lied to them as usual and the threatned to kill me and my mother if I ever tried it again. I actively plotted killing him until I finally moved out for college.

There was a woman (in Florida) who shot into the air to try and scare her abusive husband out of her parents house, which he had broken into and she got 20 years. Stand your ground really is just for white men.

“Why would she be tried as an adult, though?”

One of the kids on my caseload is a 15 year old guy who (now that he’s in residential and in a safe, clean environment) looks and acts like an adorable, high spirited little nerd. He actually looks younger than 15, except for the fact that his hair has already started to turn white from the constant stress of living…

And the man who killed his child whose mother gets more prison time for child endangerment.

And the father who accidently shot his son to death at a range faces no repercussions. And the hundreds of parents who leave their children alone in a room with a loaded gun face no repercussions. And parents of children who kill their siblings with their guns face no repercussions.

I think we all know why.

Can someone please explain to me why many states are totally cool with Stand Your Ground laws/using deadly force to “prevent death or great bodily harm” but this little girl faces life in prison for shooting someone who repeatedly threatened to kill his entire family with that very gun?

The only thing Assange cares about is his damn ego.

With you 100% on that. I also feel that Assange and Snowden shouldn’t be mentioned in the same breath. One is a whistleblower; the other is a self-righteous information broker with no sense of proportion and delusions of Godhood.

Well, I think Bernie — and all the Berniecrats who are still out there insinuating those speeches have some kind of smoking gun in them — owes somebody* an apology.

Michelle Bachman can’t even admit her husband sucks dick.

Michelle Bachman is on MSNBC right now trying to claim that these show Hillary is a traitor, Hillary’s team is responsible for sending the Trump audio to WaPo, and that it’s just “boys talk.” GROSS.

“Both candidates are equally terrible.” - A stupid person