01-14-2021, 08:56 PM
(01-14-2021, 08:44 PM)Au165 Wrote: Not at all. If I go to your house and stand out front with a gun I have violated no laws.
Well, depending on the jurisdiction, but point taken.
If I tell you I’m going to do bodily harm and then show up at your house with a gun I have.[/quote]
To be sure, as a threat has been issued directly at your person. That was not the scenario you initially described.
Quote:For instance a guy was just charged for saying online he wanted to kill Pelosi and then showing up at the capitol with 2500 rounds. People every day say they’d like for her to be killed and aren’t charged, it is only after doing things that would escalate that further (like showing up with the means to do so) does it become illegal.
Again, this is a direct threat against a person, which wasn't how you framed your initial point. I agree, in the instance you just provided, you have an actionable crime. Otherwise you have nothing different than Madonna saying she wants to blow up the White House, which is actually very specific, and yet she was not arrested or charged.
