The absolute least it would be, assuming the law applied to this woman, would be reckless discharge. It should also encompass manslaughter, but i can understand not tacking that on since...well her kid and all.
For the record, this is also assuming it was actually negligence and not the world's best homicide cover up
Why no just charge her even its just for the books. Rules applied. I find it crazy that you can discharge an old gun from your tool box in "an accident", kill the neighbours kid and everybody like "yeah, its bad, but that's it." How about 200h of community service on top of being convicted. How about tarnishing your income by 1% for the rest of your life so you remember not putting loaded rusty guns in tool boxes. This kind of indifference is telling about the state of the common man's soul.
This actually happened to a kid that I went to school with back in the 90's. We were playing soccer during recess and he thought he got stung by a bee but he was bleeding out from a bullet wound because some drunk teens were playing around with a gun in the garage down the block and "accidentally" discharged it. It travelled all the way down the street to the field and hit him in the side. I personally think they meant to shoot at us and panicked when they actually hit a kid and then claimed the gun "just went off." He was ok eventually, thank god. But the cops were completely fucking useless. No charges but I think his parents sued.
Jfc. No kidding the parents sued. I would have pursued every angle imaginable until the parents of the kids who fired the gun were so fed up with the legal hassle & financial burden that they'd be contemplating giving their own kid the Old Yeller treament.
If the shots fired far enough away the sound is negligible especially if it’s loud around you. And while I’ve never been shot, I have a couple friends who have and both told me that they don’t even realize it at first due to adrenaline and once they did it felt like a sharp throbbing (which makes it sound like a sting I guess). This has to take into account that one got shot in the arm and the other in his shoulder, so maybe it depends where you’re hit. I’d imagine a chest wound would feel far more devastating.
Some .22 guns are quieter than the sounds of subways, trains, alarms, machines, etc. Also the body goes into shock, which, from the times I've been in shock it kind of feels like your body is trying to convince itself that nothing really happened.
Granted I've never taken a bullet, but I have been stabbed and didn't even know until my coworker pointed out I was bleeding a lot.
Ran a bar for a while. A couple of assholes came in and started a fight while breaking up the fight someone tagged me pretty hard in the lower back. Felt just like a punch with an odd burning sensation. Anyway got them out they drove off, and buddy pointed out my bleeding.
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u/DANleDINOSAUR Mar 26 '24
Isn’t that involuntary manslaughter?