Aggravated Assault?

[Aguila Blanca]

http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/st...0050410/0328294114.htm&ewp=ewp_news_0405coach

Could someone from Texas please try to explain to me why the shooter has not been charged with attempted murder? I mean, after all, when you open fire on someone with an "automatic" hangun, the usual intent is to kill them, not to beat them up.

We live in a crazy world. In Florida we have a (now former) deputy charging a Marine with resisting arrest even though when he tazed the Marine there had been no mention of an arrest, and now in Texas we have a guy shoot a coach with a gun in a school (which must be an off-limits location even in Texas) and all he gets charged with as aggravated assault.

Where's that quotation from Alice in Wonderland again?

 

[runswithscissors]

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This dude shot some guy becuase his son did not get the play time he thought his son deserved. Put this guy in jail for 20 years, no questions asked. He is not safe around the general public. Maybe his cell mate bubba can teach him a thing or two about restraint \
Not too mention, isn't it a FELONY to carry a gun onto any K-12 school property no matter what state you live in? No mention of this in the article. Also, do they mean that the gun was a semi-automatic or did they mean that the gun was fully automatic? Some clarification please.

 

[El Tejon]

Crazy world? No, it's the real world, aka Problem #2--the consequences of your actions.

It is Aggravated Assault for now. Just because one is arrest for X does not mean it will remain at X. It could become Assault with Intent to Kill, Attempted Murder, Battery with Deadly Weapon, Criminal Recklessness with a Deadly Weapon, inter alia.

Eddie Haskell up around law enforcement types. Not complying with their orders may stroke your ego (the purpose of Walter Mitty posturing), but will not be good for your wallet or your potential freedom.