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mixedmedia said:I'm sorry to hear about your friend.
But that doesn't give you universal insight into the mind of every person who ever robbed a convenience store.
Nor can you say with any authority that every crime of passion is carried out with the same intent or forethought.
I realize you have a penchant for absolutes, but sorry, I see too much complexity in the world for that.
Yeah it does. I don't even need that experience - I was just next door and heard the shot - to know that a person wielding a firearm when he's committing a robbery has had to have thought about shooting the thing.
I wasn't talking about every crime of passion, I was talking about armed robbery, which is a premeditated act and NOT a crime of passion.
And no, I deal only in absolutes when absolutes are the appropriate currency. Needless to say, my posts on THIS topic are about gradations of gravity.