@Prometheus labs CEO
Thanks, I see what you’re going with it, I just wanted to say it wasn’t as simple as it appeared.
Playing devil’s advocate with myself (easiest way to get Sunset Shimmer off the hook would be using school surveillance cameras that were common even during Columbine, so not beyond the suspension of disbelief.)
@PaintEdits
You make some good points, they might think they were both in on it, but wallflower betrayed her
Also for the second one I meant to say “she would still have the gun in her hand or near her if she shot herself”
@Prometheus labs CEO
1.) Makes more sense for one person to sneak in guns than two
2.) I don’t understand what you’re saying. Please clarify.
3.) They both have fingerprints on the guns because they shared them. Put yourself in the detective’s shoes here. You’ve got Wallflower who painted the cafeteria with her brains and you find weapons that have Sunset Shimmer’s (a known ex-criminal) fingerprints on the weapons.
4.) I’m in forensics. We don’t have omniscience… All we would be able to determine is that she touched/applied her fingerprints BEFORE the guns were fired and BEFORE they were splattered with blood. Both imply she’s premeditated this with Wallflower and only wasn’t participating with the shootout because she was rendered unconscious.
@PaintEdits
1.Then why where the guns in wallflowers backpack
2.she would have the still in her hand or near it if she shot herself.
3. There’s still the question or why are wallflowers fingerprint also all over the guns, which combines with the suicide and the fact it’s her backpack doesn’t look good for her
4. With modern forensics science they could probably tell that sunset was knocked out BEFORE the shoot took place. Modern forensics is extremely detailed and thorough
@PaintEdits
But I could expect this from any other website, not this place.
And judging by the comments I’m seeing right now I’m surprised to find familiar names around talking about laws and politics in a dark humor image represented in fucking EQG characters.
@TexasUberAlles
Those were just rhetorical questions that might go through one’s mind (logical or not/true or not) to frighten them. I say rhetoric because you’re not going to have a calm mind when thrown into this situation. Though thank you for the info :)
@PaintEdits
Will I go to jail for pulling a potentially unlicensed lethal firearm on a possible school shooter?
Real Answer™: (In the US, at least) it depends entirely on the jurisdiction and political aspirations of the local District Attorney. In states/districts with a history of firearm ownership and laws and/or prevailing attitudes which favor the victim in self defense situations, probably not, as there is a huge amount of discretion involved in whether a DA or ADA even files charges in the first place– much less sends them to a grand jury– and since DA is an elected position in many jurisdictions they have to consider political ramifications in high profile cases. In jurisdictions which are actively hostile to firearm ownership and self defense, probably so, because no matter how “this guy was literally stabbing disabled children in the eyeballs in a church while shouting ‘heil hitler’” the circumstances might be– google [gary fadden incident] or “fuck you and your high powered rifle!” for a particularly egregious example– a prosecutor still has a strong political motivation to treat every gun owner as a violent criminal and every self defense situation as unjustified.
@PaintEdits
Problem these days is that it’s always “too soon” for jokes about mass shootings. 9/11’s fair game because no one else is flying planes into building any time soon. Same with the Holocaust. Trump can barely keep the government open, and people expect him to get funding for death camps? But good Lord, seems like every week some idiot with a “modern sporting rifle” or a couple of handguns is busting caps in places where caps generally are not expected to be busted. Kinda takes away from the absurdity of it. And without the absurdity, it’s not a joke; it’s just an observation.
@100SGX
It’s the internet. You will always have people making the worst kind of insensitive jokes and people taking the most obvious of jokes with the solemn stern seriousness of 1000 white hot burning suns.
@Prometheus labs CEO
>Find shotgun/several other guns in shooters bag
>Shooter see this, clocks you in the back of the head, knocking you out, but doesn’t want to shoot you as the sounds would alert the school before having a vantage point
>Shooter takes bag, to a classroom/cafeteria or some populated area
>Lights up the school then turns the gun on self
>Police/forensics find your fingerprints on one or more of the guns used with you at the scene of the crime and a past history of trying to enslave the school/harming many in the process
>It looks like a student knocked you out while you tried gunning them down otherwise it doesn’t make sense why you’re not dead and have your hands all over guns BEFORE they were splattered in blood.
Nope she’s obviously not involved!
So no… Not hard to imagine at all.
@Prometheus labs CEO
Is that the only gun? Will I go to jail for pulling a potentially unlicensed lethal firearm on a possible school shooter? My fingerprints are now on a weapon if she tries knocking me out from my back and starts shooting up the school will I be seen as an accomplice? Will I need to take a human life? Come to mind.
@Ebalosus
Unlike in the UK and Commonwealth, it’s not the government doing it– the FBI and Bureau Of Justice Statistics keep a fairly accurate account of who gets killed/injured and how, and publish the data without proselytizing– it’s media propagandists with a political agenda who are deliberately misrepresenting the accurate numbers in order to scare people into supporting gun control policy and/or continuing to watch while the adverts play.
Meanwhile, the types of rifles favored by psycho killers are used in less than one half of one percent of homicides in the US.
Ah, so the US cooks the books on shootings like in Australia, where getting shot by a crazy person is a “shooting” but being shot by a gang member is “gang-related violence”?
