'This is injustice': how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison

[TygrBright]

16. Which of course raises many issues about who gets prosecuted for what when guns are involved...

Certainly the lack of judgment to fire in a crowded milieu, merits some kind of legal sanction.

And had the prosecutors made the charge anything from unlawful or negligent discharge of a firearm up to assault with a deadly weapon, it would be valid (although perhaps arguable in the assault case as intent may be required for that charge.)

While the second amendment theoretically protects everyone's right to keep and bear, its noticeable that RWNJs and militia loons seem to have much more equal 2A rights than anarchists, brown people, etc. But that's not necessarily part of this case.

And no one else at the protest had a firearm, and a virtual life sentence even for the more serious vandalism might raise 8th Amendment concerns - it certainly would if the protesters were Proud Boys or other RW wackadoodles. But, apparently, not these dangerous lefty types.

I think they are sowing the wind, here... but whether they will ever face the whirlwind in my lifetime, I do not know.

reflectively,
Bright