Why? Is there some reason you are unable to do so?
While we are on the subject of definitions, I will point out that this BB is what is commonly known as a discussion board. That means everyone can discuss things. It is not a dictation board, where someone can dictate the course of the discussion.
I feel this way about 98% of the posts on these threads. Meaningless drool, blathering on, nutso words - if many of the people posting here were able to be honest about their posting habits, they would realize that they are no better than the one person they are continuously picking on.
I canât help but feel that itâs a little disingenuous of you to call out this forum as a DISCUSSION board after you have spent much of your time here copying and pasting someone elseâs post without any DISCUSSION on your part. You are correct that it is not a dictation board; it is also not a copy board.
I do have to say, shooting two people midday seems highly irrational. If, as LK has alleged, they planned this whole murder(attempt), they are particularly dumb criminals. What on earth would be the plan if he HAD killed them?*
ETA: *assuming he was planning to get away with a double murder.
Okay, but if she had been arrested on weapons charges, wouldnât there be an official record of it somewhere? I have looked and canât find anything, either official or unofficial (other than the claim made here. And I would think that if there had been an arrest, it would have been reported (even if it was just locally) since it would have been related to a case that has drawn a lot of media attention.
Some of the progress has made sense to me. Like MB pleading not guilty. That is pretty much par for the course in these things, as far as I understand them. But someone being arrested and there being no mention of it (other than here on CoTH forums) or record of it is weird, as far as I understand these things.
Maybe there is some confusion and there is a sealed indictment for the as yet publically un-named owner? Rather than an actual arrest? Or perhaps the person who LK has named as the owner of the gun has been served in LKâs civil case? Although usually civil lawyers advise that they wait until criminal charges have been fully adjudicated.
Sheilah
Perhaps you missed the discussion on the previous thread about the value of posts being quoted for posterity, in case the stories were later edited and changed. Some posters do that quite a bit.
Anyone is more than welcome to quote my posts for posterity, although I rarely go back and change them, other than to fix the occasional typo.
I havenât missed anything; I have a thorough understanding of the whole âquote for posterityâ idea. Iâm just wondering if you do based on the posts that you have been quoting, since they are really not noteworthy in any way as far as preserving them for the sake of continued discussion. Quoting for posterity certainly has itâs place in this forum, but not in the completely unconstrained and discriminating way you are displaying here.
And I will repeat that it is also not a copy board.
I do understand that sometimes people can somehow get so emotionally consumed in something that is so far removed from themselves that they end up feeling like it has become personal, and it is equally impossible for others to understand how that level of involvement could possibly happen. This thread has definitely shown who is in which category.
100% up to you whether you believe her or not.
I frankly donât see whatâs in it for her to say that RC was arrested on gun charges, if itâs not true, so I do believe her.
MB was indicted on two gun charges as well as two charges first degree attempted murder, so it makes sense that the owner of the gun would also face serious gun charges.
If I may express an opinion:
I see the whole QFP strategy as essentially hostile, basically saying âIâve made a record of what youâve said and will throw it back in your face at some point if it suits my purposeâÂ!
If someone writes something in the heat of the moment, and later regrets it, possibly because they have been enlightened by a subsequent post, why not let them retreat?
One thing Iâve noticed in all these threads about this situation and LKâs past, both here and elsewhere, is she never is responsible for anything negative that happens in her life. Iâve never read about a more innocent victim in my life, not even in a Jane Austin novel! Somehow she has reached whatever age she is with the only apparent wrongdoing in her entire life is chronic speeding. Simply amazing. No bullying, no harassing, no intimidation, no responsibility for her actions, nothingâŠsimply an almost flawless woman. Itâs always someone else to blame for everything.
Supposedly LK said the older couple who also own the farm were eager for her to stay. I wonder how that eagerness turned into a lawsuit?
Weâve all heard, or at least have heard hints, of the prosecutionâs evidence thanks to LKâs posts. I canât wait to hear the evidence MBâs attorney presents. Itâs going to be fascinating for sure.
Why would it make sense that the gun owner face serious gun charges? Unless the gun was illegal, or the owner was not legally entitled to own it, there would be no law to charge someone for simply owning a gun. You couldnât charge the lawful owner of the gun over something someone else decided to do with it. That is on MB.
If the owner of the gun had conspired to murder LK and her boyfriend, that would be a different story. If I understand the law correctly, that would be an accessory charge, not a gun charge.
What I find hard to understand is how someone other than MB is charged in this case and not have it reported somewhere. Anywhere. The information shared here was that the owner of the gun had been charged. I canât find that information anywhere, except here, which is weird if someone had actually been charged.
Perhaps LK just confused her civil case with the criminal case, and what she meant was that the possible gun owners had been served in her civil case and not actually charged in a criminal case?
Whatever. It just struck me as weird. I had the time and was interested enough to go looking for the details and there were none.
Sheilah
I think it is a serious crime if, as a gun owner, you leave a gun lying around such that someone can use it to kill someone else.
There was a case in California in which a parent left a loaded gun in their garage, and a couple of kids got hold of it and one kid fatally shot the other, not knowing it was loaded. The adult who owned the gun went to prison; not sure exactly what the charge was. It sounds like NJ has strict laws on hand guns.
If the gun owner colluded with MB in a premeditated attempted murder, that is really bad. Even if the gun owner did not collude or intentionally provide the gun, negligence in not securing the gun is also a serious crime.