FarkinHostile

OK, I see that, but to me, shooting someone IN THE FACE shows murderous intent. Not first degee, but still murder. A leg or arm, now I see an issue with intent, but chest or head....you want them dead.

Let me make a slight quibble--most, if not all, reputable shooting trainers teach to shoot for the center-of-mass--which, on a human, is pretty damn close to the chest.

Also, consider 'crimes of passion'--i.e., those committed "in the heat of the moment", where there is no malice aforethought--those generally get downgraded to manslaughter (if the victim dies) or aggravated assault (if the victim lives) because--no matter where the injury was inflicted--the arguement can easily be made that the attacker was simply taking the easiest, fastest opportunity. IANAL, but have been around more than enough of them in my time.

Again, I feel gun crimes should be aggressively procecuted, so that "they" leave those of us who are responsible with guns alone.

I personally think that anyone who promulgates that trite, over-hyped, cliche'd, hackneyed old puke of a phrase "gun crime" should be drawn and quartered, and have their body sent to the four corners of the country as an example.

The same goes for 'computer crime' or 'car crime' or 'knife crime' or any other modifier attached to 'crime'. It's a crime. That's it. If you want to get specific, go by the *legal* categorization--assault, battery, murder, manslaughter.

/It sounds trite, moralizing, and downright stupid, IMHO.