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To: Conscience of a Conservative

What happens if someone intentionally shoots a person (not in self defense) and that person subsequently dies six days later from their injuries? I think the charge would be murder. The fact that it was only “attempted murder” for six days would be irrelevant, right?

From a moral and ethical perspective, a person was killed. However, previously illogical and immoral rulings on abortion created this mess. Anyone with a lick of sense (or morality) should understand that children—even unborn ones—deserve protection. Sadly, a woman’s right to choose to murder her child is deemed supreme in this mixed up mess of a country!


70 posted on 10/31/2015 8:11:21 PM PDT by CitizenUSA (Proverbs 14:34 Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.)
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To: CitizenUSA
What happens if someone intentionally shoots a person (not in self defense) and that person subsequently dies six days later from their injuries? I think the charge would be murder. The fact that it was only “attempted murder” for six days would be irrelevant, right?

Under the current illogical and immoral logic of legal "personhood," this case is a bit different from your example. In your example, a "person" was shot, and then six days later the "person" died from his or her injuries. The fact that there was a delay between the criminal act (shooting) and the result (death) does not negate the crime; in fact, there are cases of murder charges being brought decades after the fact, where a death was determined to have been caused by a long-ago criminal act (for example, if someone is shot, and then decades later a bullet fragment breaks free and causes death).

In this case, the difference is that, legally-speaking, a "non-person" was injured, then became a "person," and then the "person" died.

(the absurdity of the above sentence should just go to further show the illogic and immorality of the current state of "personhood" law).

72 posted on 10/31/2015 9:03:54 PM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
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