Comment's still up after an hour, yup, looks like the mods here are pretty good. I like this place. Over in /c/news the modlog is insane, looks like it'd be easier to just remove themselves from the Fediverse rather than try and remove all the comments that might hint at "celebrating violence".

I have an old friend named Brian Thompson who is 100% not this Brian Thompson.

I feel bad for him having this guys name today and how much shit he'll hear about it.

The NPR article right now on this guy is disgusting

Thoughts and prayers to the victims of the victim.

From this year.

Pick any rural county, and you can find a bus load of people who’ve been screwed over or denied care by health insurance. And for those who do not have a specific, personal grudge, healthcare options in the sticks are increasingly geographic monopolies run by a single provider, with a Byzantine network of in/out network insurers.

Someone driving their mother four hours for biweekly dialysis or cancer care because the local provider is not covered is going to be pissed. A parent buying their child because the local provider ‘streamlined’ care while slashing nursing headcount is going to be a lot more than pissed.

Yeah, the sentiment in comments I’m seeing are taking this as the working class fighting back against the ruling class. They should be scared of the 99% waking up to the fact that the 1% are not invincible and their fortunes and bunkers won’t save them.

Jury nullification exists for this very reason.

Did the shooter do something illegal? Yes

But was it wrong? If I was on his jury, I'd acquit.

I hope his list is just as long.

1% death squad Santa.

He's making a list.

and checking it twice.

Here, you can borrow mine

Lol thoughts and prayers.

NGL if there were copycat crimes targetting other health insurance CEOs, most people would probably herald the vigilantes.

Yeah murder is bad and all but these guys are responsible for so much death and pain and suffering for making a profit.

Killer here is a legit antihero. Like Dexter Morgan. In the earlier seasons.

Really I'm just picturing the scene in Dogma where Matt Daemon and Ben Affleck drop in on a Mooby's board meeting and kill nearly all of them.

Makes sense. 9mm is protected under the second amendment. And our incoming VP says that shootings are a way of life.

It's hard to imagine Trump riding a bike.

Doesn't look like anything to me.

Jury nullification, also known in the United Kingdom as jury equity, or a perverse verdict, is when the jury in a criminal trial gives a verdict of not guilty even though they think a defendant has broken the law. The jury's reasons may include the belief that the law itself is unjust, that the prosecutor has misapplied the law in the defendant's case, that the punishment for breaking the law is too harsh, or general frustrations with the criminal justice system. Some juries have also refused to convict due to their own prejudices in favor of the defendant. Such verdicts are possible because a jury has an absolute right to return any verdict it chooses. Nullification is not an official part of criminal procedure but is the logical consequence of two rules governing the systems in which it exists:

1. Jurors cannot be punished for passing an incorrect verdict.

2. In many jurisdictions, a defendant who is acquitted cannot be tried a second time for the same offense.

A jury verdict that is contrary to the letter of the law pertains only to the particular case before it; however, if a pattern of acquittals develops in response to repeated attempts to prosecute a particular offence, this can have the de facto effect of invalidating the law. Such a pattern may indicate public opposition to an unwanted legislative enactment. It may also happen that a jury convicts a defendant even if no law was broken, although such a conviction may be overturned on appeal. Nullification can also occur in civil trials; unlike in criminal trials, if the jury renders a not liable verdict that is clearly at odds with the evidence, the judge can issue a judgment notwithstanding the verdict or order a new trial.