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MLeake · February 21, 2012, 02:26 AM

I don't think pointing a gun in the direction of a church congregation and pulling the trigger is "simple negligence."

I think it's profoundly stupid, and meets my personal threshold for what should constitute criminally culpable negligence.

Pointing the gun somewhere reasonably safe and pulling the trigger, without verifying chamber status, might be reasonably argued to be simple negligence. That's not what happened in this case.

February 21, 2012, 02:26 AM	#111
MLeake Senior Member Join Date: November 15, 2007 Location: Outside KC, MO Posts: 10,128	I don't think pointing a gun in the direction of a church congregation and pulling the trigger is "simple negligence." I think it's profoundly stupid, and meets my personal threshold for what should constitute criminally culpable negligence. Pointing the gun somewhere reasonably safe and pulling the trigger, without verifying chamber status, might be reasonably argued to be simple negligence. That's not what happened in this case.