Just saw this news story and I thought you guys would find it as interesting (and irritating) as I do.
My God, EVERYONE in this is INSANE! Lawyers are out of control.
His mother is defending him (If I ever have a kid and he crushes someone’s friggin’ skull, I’m damn sure not gonna be standing by his side and assuring people that he’s a good boy).
Even the fucking VICTIM’S FATHER is on his side! My God WHY?? ‘So you stabbed my daughter and bashed her skull in huh? Well I guess I can let you off with a warning this time, wanna popsicle?’
And has anyone here ever crushed a person’s skull? So unless this kid had access to the beta testing of ‘Hypnotizing You Into Killing A Young Girl 2K3’ then I think this defense is sorta weak.
Great, not only is the lawyer a fucking moron, but the father of the girl killed is too. Sounds like the people were just waiting to be assfucked by a kid with mental difficulties.
Did you know that over 90% of American homes have a hammer, and nearly 100% have at least one knife?
These lethal objects are often within the reach of children and result in hundreds of serious accidental injuries per year and are involved with thousands of deliberate murders. It is a proven fact that knife wounds are more dangerous than most gun shots, since bullet holes tend to seal themselves and rarely make complicated cuts.
Both weapons of murder, not tools of the home as previously believed, are also more difficult to trace than guns. There is no evidence left behind at the scene of the crime to indicate what knife a wound came from. There can be no bullet analysis, no identifying gunpowder residue. Yet a person walking in public with a kitchen knife or hammer is subject to no more scrutiny than your typical jogger. Knives and hammers are silent, deadly weapons that are totally socially acceptable despite the persistent proof of their danger. I say we ban these tools of the murderous trade, as well as the ‘home improvement’ and ‘cooking’ shows and books that train people in their use!
[campaign ad in the year 2050, when there’s nothing else left to ban]
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And over 30% of rec-room shelves contain dusty Peter, Paul & Mary albums featuring this insidious song:
If I had a hammer
I’d hammer in the morning
I’d hammer in the evening
All over this land
I’d hammer out danger
I’d hammer out a warning
I’d hammer out love between my brothers and my sisters
All over this land
My own father forced us to listen to this dangerous, violent music. Yes, now I “get” all the jokes in A Mighty Wind, but think- I could have killed someone! Chilling.
Nice try. Knives and hammers are not explicitly designed for killing. Guns are.
I don’t know US laws on the matter, but in Sweden it is also explicitly forbidden to carry knives in public, precisely because knives are dangerous weapons as well as being tools. Unlike guns which have no purpose beyond being dangerous weapons.
My lawyer won’t let me answer that question.
That’s not true. You can grab a gun by its barrel and…
USE IT AS A HAMMER!
Welcome to Medina County, Ohio…
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Way to take me seriously.
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Whatever happened (in JoLynn's death), it was not murder,'' Thompson wrote in a news release.The American video industry must share the blame.‘’
So stabbing someone multiple times and crushing their skull isn’t murder? Whew, thank God.
Judging by the description of the crime and the fact that the kid stole her car, I’m guessing they’ll try the “GTA made me do it” angle.
I also love this description of the lawyer:
A Florida lawyer and self-styled expert on the influence of violent video games on youths
For some reason I picture Doctor Zoidberg from Futurama yelling “Look at me! I’m an expert on video game violence!”
I didn’t. It’s just that some satire is too blatantly ignorant to pass me by without a comment.
Nuke Sweden!
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Well we’re in Michigan here, these gusy are amateurs.
Anyone that goes by the name “Mickey” is a fucking basket case.
At first I thought Mickey was the suspect’s father, but then I read it again. Who in their right mind would “not” want to kill the bastard who brutally murdered their little girl?
I would probably strap enough explosives to myself to wipe out a city block and get as close to the little murderer as humanly possible.
BOOOOOM!
Sionara shithead.
Mickey Mishne said he supports Thompson’s quest to defend the person charged with killing his daughter. He also said he, too, wants the case to be moved from common pleas court back to Juvenile Court.
The maximum sentence in juvenile court would be a little more than four years. In adult court, Lynch would face as long as a life term with no chance of parole for 30 years.
I have confidence that Jack will present all aspects of the case,'' Mickey Mishne said.I have no objection to him taking over the case.‘’He has said he wants Lynch to be tried as a juvenile and that he believes the teen can be rehabilitated.
``It has been our desire and our intent to assist in Lynch’s defense as witnesses to his nonviolent nature while he was a guest in our home as well as to his obsessive video game behavior,‘’ Mishne wrote to Medina County Common Pleas Judge Christopher Collier on Wednesday.
so dad really does feel sorry for the kid who murdered his daughter (crushed skull, stab wounds)! that’s blowing my mind, too.
Just maybe the victim’s father is sympathetic to the kid because he knows more about the case than we do? Geez.
Like what Jason? I can’t imagine much that would mitigate my own personal paternal rage in that situation. Are you saying maybe this kid was driven to kill by video games?
I find it more likely that this father is one of those people who can’t believe that people are capable of these sorts of things. He believes that people have to be inspired to do wrong, by movies, video games, D&D, talking garden gnomes, the bible, or devils in their telephones. I think he can’t wrap his head around the fact that this kid, one that he presumably knew and allowed into his house, brutally murdered his daughter, so he’s casting about for something he can safely blame so he can keep his world view and sanity intact.
Undoubtably there were extenuating circumstances that made stabbing that girl and then crushing her skull seem like a reasonable course of action at the time. Kudos to the father for realizing that poor boy is the real victim.
Or maybe the defendent’s lawyer has planned a lawsuit against some key figures in the game industry, which he will base on the current court battle and has promised daddy a piece of the potential pie if he cooperates.
Greed is the only possible motivator that makes any sense to me in this scenario.