Matt⚕️ @Matt⚕️ - 22d
Do you suggest having no rules for making threats? Just wait until someone is injured to act? I don't know the story, but there are self-defense rules that apply to threats and there probably should be limits on them. Maybe his were justified. I don't know. But they also may not have been.
In the US anyway
I think the fundamental disagreement is that laws related to threats only protect feelings. It may be that some cases need special consideration, but the laws usually have a good reason for existing. Threats have consequences beyond feelings, even if this one case is unique in some way I'm unaware of. That's what courts are for.
I think it depends and that's my point. I'd need more details to have any real position on this example. I'm just speaking in general terms. Threatening to shoot or blow up a school, for example, should be a felony for an adult. That's why details matter. Even for 1:1 cases. It just depends on what happened and why for me. I'm guessing I would agree with you though based on what you've said. Especially if they were both instigators.
