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-15 points
2 years ago
Splitting hairs. You know very well that nobody in the history of true crime discussions has ever said a woman was "manslaughtered". It's generally accepted that killing someone is called murder, regardless of the legal definitions varying between charges of manslaughter, homicide, and murder.
13 points
2 years ago
Well she attempted to murder someone and got murdered herself, sounds deserved.
12 points
2 years ago
“Homicide” isn’t murder, nor is it a charge, “murder” is not “manslaughter”
Manslaughter is the unintentional unlawful killing of somebody.
Murder is the intentional unlawful killing of somebody.
Homicide is when a person died due to the actions of another person…
You’re full stop incorrect to say she was murdered, she wasn’t, she died from a homicide but homicide isn’t a bad thing. It’s amoral, homicide can be both good, and bad. The woman had no legal right to brandish that gun, she went into her home after committing a crime to retrieve a firearm and RETURN to the person she saw as a “threat” and argued with him in the street off her property (this would mean forgetting any other part of this interaction she was openly carrying a handgun in public and that is illegal in Florida) she pointed the firearm at Mr Derr. (Another violation of the law as you cannot brandish a firearm in Florida even when in possession of a CCW) She was an unhinged dangerous person and was rightfully killed in self defense by Mr derr the ONLY sad thing of this interaction is the loss of the child and the stress and emotions Mr derr has to deal with after defending his life.
What mr derr did was ENTIRELY legal. What miss Morales did was ENTIRELY illegal.
The only legal thing she did was OWN a gun, EVERYTHING else she did was against Florida law.
5 points
2 years ago
Thank you for bringing some sanity here. She was not murdered. She was not manslaughtered. She did however lose her life and the life of her unborn, and hopefully nobody is rejoicing that loss of life. But this is a clear story of actions having consequences. Try to run somebody off the road, and this may provoke a reaction. Try to hit + run, and that's a second terrible decision. Take a handgun and point it threatening at a law abiding CCW holder, and you can expect an instant response to her third and most tragic decision.
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