Here’s a true story about the NM law of involuntary manslaughter. A friend if mine in college (UNM) went to the hot springs outside of Albuquerque and spent the day partying with friends. He was driving home on the highway when he came up on a pickup truck that was driving very slowly in the left lane. He was annoyed and jerked into the …
Here’s a true story about the NM law of involuntary manslaughter. A friend if mine in college (UNM) went to the hot springs outside of Albuquerque and spent the day partying with friends. He was driving home on the highway when he came up on a pickup truck that was driving very slowly in the left lane. He was annoyed and jerked into the right lane to pass the truck and then back into the left lane to get in front of it. He hit the front of the pickup with his car and it drove off the road and into a ditch. The occupants were a man and woman and their 3 year old who was riding without a seatbelt in between them. The child went through the windshield and died. My friend was convicted of involuntary manslaughter. His blood alcohol was high. He was 20 years old. So, tell me again why a 50 year old movie star is less culpable for the death he clearly caused?
Because Alec Baldwin wasn't driving drunk and didn't try to illegally pass another vehicle. And your analogy has almost nothing to do with the situation. If your friend had been racing down a road he'd been told (by professionals tasked with ensuring it was clear) was clear and safe and could not have other traffic on it, then slammed into the truck, you'd have a comparison. But you don't.
People DO do that, by the way. It happens in movies - you get the proper permits and permission, clear the right areas, and film your movie. They literally raced through downtown Chicago to film these scenes (https://youtu.be/8VFIPCpocLk?feature=shared). You think the filmmakers or the stunt drivers would be held responsible if the police had explicitly told them things were clear and they weren't, and someone died because of the police not doing their job? Nope.
Except that if Baldwin weren't an arrogant a**hole anti-gun nut who just knows better than all the stupid rubes who actually know how to handle guns, that woman would still be alive. No, he wasn't drunk, he was just incredibly, arrogantly negligent. No actual *legal* gun owner would have made the serial mistakes he made that led directly to her death.
Here’s a true story about the NM law of involuntary manslaughter. A friend if mine in college (UNM) went to the hot springs outside of Albuquerque and spent the day partying with friends. He was driving home on the highway when he came up on a pickup truck that was driving very slowly in the left lane. He was annoyed and jerked into the right lane to pass the truck and then back into the left lane to get in front of it. He hit the front of the pickup with his car and it drove off the road and into a ditch. The occupants were a man and woman and their 3 year old who was riding without a seatbelt in between them. The child went through the windshield and died. My friend was convicted of involuntary manslaughter. His blood alcohol was high. He was 20 years old. So, tell me again why a 50 year old movie star is less culpable for the death he clearly caused?
Because Alec Baldwin wasn't driving drunk and didn't try to illegally pass another vehicle. And your analogy has almost nothing to do with the situation. If your friend had been racing down a road he'd been told (by professionals tasked with ensuring it was clear) was clear and safe and could not have other traffic on it, then slammed into the truck, you'd have a comparison. But you don't.
People DO do that, by the way. It happens in movies - you get the proper permits and permission, clear the right areas, and film your movie. They literally raced through downtown Chicago to film these scenes (https://youtu.be/8VFIPCpocLk?feature=shared). You think the filmmakers or the stunt drivers would be held responsible if the police had explicitly told them things were clear and they weren't, and someone died because of the police not doing their job? Nope.
Except that if Baldwin weren't an arrogant a**hole anti-gun nut who just knows better than all the stupid rubes who actually know how to handle guns, that woman would still be alive. No, he wasn't drunk, he was just incredibly, arrogantly negligent. No actual *legal* gun owner would have made the serial mistakes he made that led directly to her death.