BPBRB wrote:Psyber wrote: It is everyone's responsibility to spill the beans about serious criminal behaviour like shooting up property, so that it does not become commonplace and make everybody, and their kids, more unsafe. Innocent bystanders could have been injured then, and doing anything else condones the criminal behaviour. If he had done that much a murder, I agree he could not predict, may have been prevented. He could have predicted more of what he had witnessed, and a predictable accidental injury or death resulting.
Comedy gold psyber - get your head into the real world!!!
I know that a substantial minority of the real world
is habitually criminal, but somebody has to oppose it to try to prevent it becoming the majority. What I stated is the legal position, the view of those who made the law, and what the prosecution would say if he were charged at some later date. The problem is too many people have the "Ned Kelly Complex" which basically implies that anything you can get away with is OK - but watch them carry on if it happens to them.
How would you feel if you were driving the family home and bullets started whizzing past the car because somebody was shooting at a nearby fence or another car, even if they had not noticed you were there? And if one of your family were injured or killed how would you feel about someone who knew who did it and kept quiet about it?
