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http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-man-arrested-for-shooting-at-crop-duster-plane-1.2704109
The shooter was not charged with murder, but with discharging a firearm, mischief and endangering an aircraft.
Should he have been charged with
attempted murder? Why?
 

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What is the purpose of this topic? It doesn't provoke any discussion. If you're going to keep posting only links, it'll be considered spam. You need to provide a lot more in your post to provoke discussion, and / or thoughts. 

Invenio, Investigatio, Imperium

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"No one was hurt but the side and bottom of the plane were damaged"

Why exactly should he be charged with murder when he didn't murder anyone?

 

 

I was just about to post this. OP, your arguments make no logical sense.

I meant attempted murder.

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I would like to see him charged with attempted murder. But I am a pilot and can admit to being somewhat biased.

 

But, it seems like a more than reasonable charge to me. A reasonable person knows that airplanes do not fly themselves, and a reasonable person could therefore conclude that if you fire a weapon at an aircraft, there is a reasonable chance that you might injure or kill a person.

So, if you intentionally discharge a firearm while targeting an aircraft, you attempted to injure or kill a person.

 

Imagine if the pilot had been hit and killed, and the plane then crashed into a car or house on the ground...

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