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72-year-old Florida man arrested after admitting he shot a Walmart delivery drone
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this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2024
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Shooting at a drone has the same classification as shooting at a passenger plane. He's been charged with a felony, up to 20 years in prison. As it should be. We don't need fucking idiots shooting into the sky in residential areas, regardless of what they think they're shooting at.
You think someone shooting a drone -- a thing that by definition doesn't have any people in it -- should have the same law and sentencing applied as shooting a plane full of people? That seems pretty different to me.
Yup. Because whether there are people or not, I don't think, is actually relevant to the crime being committed.
I also think attempted murder, and successful murder should have the same sentence. Whether it was successful shouldn't matter for the punishment. They shouldn't get off with a lighter sentence just because they did a shit job, or because the person was too tough to die.
You think a 54 lb drone crashing from the sky isn't potentially deadly to people?
Or bullets falling from the sky.
Oh absolutely it can be. I think most people shooting at a drone aren't intending to hurt anyone, and the possibility of anyone being seriously hurt is largely dependent on how populated the area is if the drone crashes.
Shooting at an occupied aircraft though? The likelihood that someone could be killed goes way up, right? The intent has probably also changed: for a drone it's property destruction, for occupied aircraft it's most likely murder.
Some people believe that intent doesn't matter and that it's the results of the crime that matter. I don't subscribe to that reasoning because then the sentencing of a crime focuses on punishment instead of rehabilitation, and I think intent should have influence on if and how we rehabilitate people, but that's getting into a whole different discussion.