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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m sorry. They tazed him. He could have died of a heart attack! This was freaking weapon!![/quote]

That would be very unlikely to occur and that wasn't remotely their intent.  When we decide whether to toss away the lives of two young teens, we should look at what they intended to do much more than the end result.[/quote]
Intent? What was the intent of carrying a taser around while intending to carjack?[/quote]

The intent was to commit a carjacking.  They had no intent to kill someone.  They likely hoped to not even use the taser and the goal was to scare him into compliance.[/quote]
When a bank robber uses a gun, the sentence is a lot tougher, even if he/she did not "intend" to use it.  You brought a weapon to commit a crime. Sh1t happens. Someone dies.  So, the penalty is tougher.
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Which makes sense for adults who could more reasonably foresee what might occur.  Kids shouldn't be held to that standard.[/quote]
then their parents should be held liable. Where did they get the weapon?

I did not agree with the affluenza kid getting off so easily, and I don't agree that just because these are not rich girls that they should get off easily, either. [/quote]

Do you really not see the difference between the two situations?  Believing that these girls should be treated leniently does not mean one has to credit the affluenza defense.[/quote]

I’m just curious... how does everyone jump to the conclusion that these are poor kids that the system failed? Where’s the evidence for this. Inquiring minds want to know just how they are the victims.[/quote]

The killer girls are not victims, and there is zero indication that they were failed by the system. Hungry and stole something to eat? All the sympathy in the world. Steal a car through any means necessary including with violence... because it was cool? Seemed fun? To impress someone? These girls had FAR more privilege and opportunities than most immigrants, most people who had rough childhoods in 3rd world countries, without support, with plenty of trauma, but somehow managed to never do anything remotely like this.

13 & 15 year olds know better, unless you're determined and make a conscious choice to choose to be a criminal. This had nothing to do with survival.
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