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To: SJSAMPLE

What do you consider a “non violent” crime?

What if said crime effects others and they commit violence due to your actions? Like someone who is exercising their free speech rights and they insight a riot. Is that a non violent crime?

Drug usage?

Gambling?

Prostitution?


39 posted on 06/16/2010 1:32:33 PM PDT by RickB444 (beat your sword into a plow and you'll wind up plowing the fields of someone who kept their sword.)
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To: RickB444

A person’s actions are their own.

Some people can read “Catcher in the Rye” and massacre a schoolbus full of nuns and orpans holding puppies. I don’t hold the writer responsible unless he specifically conspired to shoot those puppies.

If the actual crime (what you listed is fine) doesn’t involve crime, then it’s “non-violent”. Any subsequent crimes committed by persons involved are immaterial. Even trying to link causality to another, violent crime is too scary to think about. Kiss all of our rights goodbye.


40 posted on 06/16/2010 1:37:48 PM PDT by SJSAMPLE
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