03-10-2008, 04:23 PM | #31 |
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Does Tex want to forgive and not punish drunk drivers who kill?
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Good post. I agree completely.
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Poosibly, but that is criminal conduct. Besides, he is a cop. It is evenh worse for that to happen to him.
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Indycoug: Failure to demonstrate reading comprehension but makes partisan comment anyway. Waters asked if a drunk that killed while driing was any different to Tex. You don't thinhk this is legitmate inquiry based on Tex's postrs?
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I don't think anyone gives Tex a legitimate inquiry on this site. There is no way given the scant details in that article that anyone could divine intent.
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The issue should be investigated, and prosecution seriously considered.
Regardless of circumstances, anything that results in an accident, with or without fatalities, as a result of negligent driving, deserves investigation & possible prosecution. We've all made mistakes while driving, and there's a number of possibilities that could have resulted in a purely accidental set of circumstances leading to this result. It's surprising, and perhaps condemning, that one who should be a model for safe driving ended up with this result. While I'm not prepared to condemn the guy for it, if it's true that this was intentional, or even unintentional (read not a 'hazing' incident) but the result of negligence, the guy deserves prosecution. Having unintentionally, but negligently, caused a near-death experience while driving recklessly (wasn't nearly so much fun after the accident), I'd say I would have deserved prosecution if anyone had died from my lapse in judgment. I would post an attempted joke about bikers wearing spandex, but this isn't the appropriate thread to do so in... |
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There's nothing simple about taking 2 (or 3) lives. It's a horrible tragedy. What I'm suggesting is that you have knee-jerk imputed intent to this man based less on actual evidence than on your own emotion reactions to others who were legitimately guilty of taunting cyclists. Based on a single article with barely a pair of paragraphs on the incident, you all have divined intent, pronounced guilt, and determined sentence. Quote:
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Drunk driving is a little bit different in my opinion, but depending on the circumstances, the same counsel could apply.
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I can divine he was a cop on duty driving his car that killed two people on the opposite side of the road. That is enough needed to }etermine criminal conduct.
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Barring evidence of malice, "murder" is not.
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