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Well, I guess technically he never actually tried to kill Joe Biden and there's probably a certain threshold for threatening politicians he didn't meet. And where the guy has a history of planning but not executing attacks, the idea that he's a credible threat was likely diminished.

Full Throttle posted...

Do you think it's outrageous that he's only being charged with child porn and NOT for an assassination/mass murder plot?

If he planned out a mass shooting for an event in 2019 yet didn't mass shoot in 2019, by what logic would you charge him for a plot concerning something he never attempted?

Otherwise the general problem with "plots" is that up until certain action points, it's just ideation. There was a cop a while back who had a journal where he fantasized about killing and eating his ex-wife, which went into detailed plans. Grisly shit, to be sure, but up until he does something illegal, it's just fantasy. In the cop's case, he was eventually acquitted on appeal (although the other unrelated charge stuck). Basically there's an exceptional amount of gray area when it's just one person involved in something like this. If you have multiple people, then it's a lot easier to demonstrate intent and build a case.

That and they already have him on the other charges which should put him away for a long time.

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