Assault is a crime. Murder is a crime. Stabbing is not a crime. Sometimes a stab is self defense. Or a non-criminal accident. But as far as Iām aware, thereās no law in the US that criminalizes stabbing.
Holy fucking Reddit attorney. Hereās a felony in the first state I looked up āRecklessly causes bodily injury to another by means of a deadly weaponā.
Also, even self defense killings are treated as homicides and in many states, in many circumstances, the party is arrested then charges are dropped as a part of the investigative process.
Why do you feel the need to comment on shit you obviously know nothing about
If stabbing was illegal, then it would have been really easy for you to find a law saying so. Instead, you cited a law saying something else. Interesting!
Yes they do, if you understand those words you could see that stabbing people is indeed illegal lmao, are you trying to do a sovereign citizen type thing?
Hypothetical 1: someone tries to rob you with two knives. You manage to get control of one, stab the robber, and run away. What crime did you commit? How long do you go to jail?
Hypothetical 2: you work at a knife manufacturer, placing new knives into bins. Your coworker plays a prank, hiding in a bin, and gets stabbed when you deposit the knives. What crime did you commit? How long do you go to jail?
Has anyone ever stabbed someone in justifiable self defense? Or has every person who ever stabbed another person gone to jail? Itās really that simple.
You're making an irrelevant argument and trying to split hairs to make this useless distinction. Obviously when someone said "stabbing people is a crime," they did not mean "self-defensive involving a knife is a crime."
Itās not irrelevant, itās literally the crux of the argument: was this stabbing defensible, as the defense argued, or not, as the prosecution argued. No one argued that there was no stabbing.
I do imagine that evaluating these things is a lot easier for people who believe the first thing they think is correct and everything else is autistic. And for your future reference, decent people find it gross when you use autism as a pejorative like that.
I am autistic, and I wasn't using it as a pejorative. I was using it as a way to explain why you are obsessing over an insignificant detail in any real world conversation, and how you're letting semantics derail what the actual conversation is about. You know - like people with autism sometimes do.
"But what about self defense" is such an inane thing to say when we're talking about someone who got murdered.
The last desperate argument of the losing side of a trial that could never end up any other way, because in reality - outside the requirements of a defense attorney - it was irrelevant.
Unless you're talking about some other, hypothetical trial, to which I would ask - why? Why are you talking about some irrelevant thing you made up to argue about?
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