Reply #31: ya think, eh? [View All]

[iverglas]

but I think there are a lot of people (iverglas perhaps) that think she should be arrested.

Just a wild guess, was it?

I guess it was.

Telling people that she won't be charged is educational for those types of folks.

Hmm. I wonder what the type of folks of which I am hypothetized to be one might have learned from hearing that no charges will be laid, but not being given any reasons for the non-laying of charges?

That prosecutorial discretion was exercised arbitrarily, perhaps?

Who can tell? Me, I wouldn't have an opinion about whether prosecutorial discretion was exercised arbitrarily or appropriately, since I don't have those reasons.

I'm so confused. Without being in possession of any of the relevant facts, "iverglas perhaps" would have thought that the clerk should have been arrested. And then somehow, still without me (perhaps?) being in possession of any of the relevant facts, it would be educational for me to be told that no charges are being laid, without being told the reasons why.

I'm trying to figure out what I've allegedly been educated about here, and I'm just not coming up with anything.

The funny thing is, I just don't find it at all unusual for the police to state, and the media to report, that an individual who injured another individual with a firearm is not being charged with a criminal offence.

Heck, just think of all the folks hereabouts who might have lain awake nights fretting about whether this hero of the ongoing armed resistance against bad men was sitting in the county gaol awaiting trial on charges laid by some élitist liberal prosecutor ...