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Supposedly there is a law in Vermont that mere planning isn't enough, the defendant has to be caught physically attempting to do the school shooting before they can charge him.
The thin line between planning a school massacre and attempting it has a teenage suspect on the verge of walking free in Vermont. Now, the community is on edge.
At Fair Haven Union High School, attendance has been down as much as 25 percent in the last two months.
"He threatened to kill a lot of people in our school," said one student at the school.
Jack Sawyer, a former student, carefully detailed his plan to shoot up the school in a journal entitled "The journal of an active shooter." It listed who he wanted to kill, like the school resource officer, saying, "I'm intending to just blow his (expletive) head off before he can even draw his gun or think about what's happening.'"
This is a perfect example of the reason for having armed C.C. staff in addition to a single uniform wearing school resource officer. If a student is able to shoot the SRO the school is basically defenseless if none of the staff is armed. There was a sheriff's deputy killed recently and he was responding to a call, so at least he should've been expecting trouble. You can imagine how dangerous it would be for someone in uniform not expecting trouble and getting ambushed, like the two cops shot recently while they were eating lunch. Having just one armed person for a large school makes as much sense as having one fire extinguisher in the event of a fire.
This is not an unusual requirement in the law. A conspiracy generally doesn't become prosecutable until one or more members takes some action to put it into effect. A plan is not an attempt.
-- Mike
"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities." - Ayn Rand
As it should be. A pity that many other "laws" don't follow that same basic premise. ie one actually has to do something wrong before they can be prosecuted.
Besides, just think of a world where Pinky and The Brain get tossed in jail after just the first episode.
schmieg wrote:This is not an unusual requirement in the law. A conspiracy generally doesn't become prosecutable until one or more members takes some action to put it into effect. A plan is not an attempt.
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I agree with the above two. It's a slippery slope to get to the "thought police." If we were charged with our ideas and plans, no matter how well or poorly thought out, I'd have been in the electric chair numerous times by now.
