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Because it’s about sending a message. They’ve seen how popular this guy and his actions have become and are trying to throw everything at him so it puts off any copycats.

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True, hopefully it will backfire.

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Death penalty increases violence because murdering the person catching you becomes a way to increase your likelihood of surviving.

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Death penalty backfires because it demonstrates fear for what this person keeps saying.

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So basically, killing Luigi would not make copycats less likely, but it WOULD make it more likely for copycats to shoot CEOs AND cops?

Hmm… The killing of Luigi itself would be awful, of course, but the consequences of it sound like a win to me 🤔

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The death penalty has not been executed in NY/federal court for decades right? Doesn’t seem like an actual threat. What they want to achieve is a good negotiating position for a plea bargain because they known a trial will be a shitshow.

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Except all they have done is make him a martyr, and now anyone who wants to be infamous is more likely to do something.

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An interesting factoid. In Finnish language “väkivalta” means violence. It is a combination word:

väki = people, crowd, folk

valta = power, reign

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So… in Finland “democracy” and “violence” are the same thing? xD

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Väki also means (or at least used to) ‘power’ or ‘strong’ (väkivahva, väkijuoma…) and that’s also where the etymology for ‘väkivalta’ comes from. So it’s got nothing to do with people.

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Valta also sounds like a Germanic loan just a second… yep. Same root as German “Gewalt”, violence, “walten”, to rule, preside, “verwalten”, to administer, also English wield.

What’s it with Finnish. One third borrowed from Estonian, another third from the Swedes, the rest from the Sami.

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Yes. We are a mushroom people that suddenly popped in to existence and had to borrow some stuff.

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This is true.

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MILDLY infuriating??!?

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The !ExtremelyInfuriating@lemmy.world community seemed dead so I posted it here instead.

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To put it mildly. 😋

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Shouldn’t there be leniency for killing a killer?
Yes I know it’s about “sending a message”, but messages go both ways.

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In this case, I wouldn’t even call Luigi a killer. He’s a hero, if any.

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When the killing is in self defense or in the defense of many, many victims, is this called justifiable homicide?

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Because most school shooters aren’t adults.

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Yeah, because the US “justice” system famously never treats juvenile defendants as adults in order to mete out draconian punishment that eliminates all chances for rehabilitation…

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And they have definitely ratified the UNCRC because they definitely do not want to put kids in adult prisons, right?

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The US Supreme Court prevented people who committed crimes as juveniles from being executed a number of years ago. Trump’s group might change that, but for now it is the law. They technically cannot be incarcerated forever either.

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I mean Luigi barely counts.

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Isn’t he 26?

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Exactly, so he’s just now turning into his final adult sets of ideas and personality.

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Also, most school shooters don’t survive.

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https://apnews.com/article/unitedhealthcare-ceo-killing-luigi-mangione-terrorism-law-7fcb28dcc0106c980b6ecf4aa9cf682f

That doesn’t mean they can’t be tried as terrorists. The main problem here is actually whether or not the facts of the crime actually allow for a terrorism charge. Fact is, he had a manifesto (see ideological goals), and the shooting was a violent criminal act.

According to the FBI that’s all it takes. It may also be what is lacking in the case of some school shooters.

While I am generally on the side of “CEO FAFO”, I recognize that the problem here is that the FBI and the laws they follow are flawed (probably deliberately) in such a way that they only target those who target the wealthy.

Shooting up a school is an act of terrorism if you do it because you’re targeting a soft target in an attempt to hurt the local, state or federal government or you’re religiously motivated etc. But not if you were bullied.

There’s been plenty of over 18 mass shooters who also haven’t been charged with terrorism. And with each one there’s people who will say they don’t want the US to become more of a police state because they believe that counterterrorism techniques (which we use internationally) shouldn’t be used against the general population.

The federal government has a habit of overstepping the rights and freedoms of the general public any time they feel like they are under attack. We saw this with 9/11 and the Patriot act. So I can see their reasoning even if I don’t agree that mass shooters should be considered terrorists under the law.

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