they're reporting he's 26 now, not 20

There actually was a case where a girl was charged with manslaughter for telling her boyfriend to kill himself.

Most campuses are open.

Ok, charged. And how did the trial end ?

Encouraging someone to do heinous crimes is a crime in itself. You really need to read up a little on the unequivocal essence of Mens Rea. Whilst those who encouraged this obviously deranged man might have not thought he was being serious, they also as conscious and law-abiding human beings knew that there was a possibility that this man was being serious. Therefore, those 4chan users are culpable for their reckless state of mind when they replied to this man. With that, they had a somewhat guilty mind in knowing the risk they were taking in replying in such a way to this man.

You can't hide being 'free speech' for everything. You can't tell someone to murder another person and then say, 'I was merely expressing free speech'. No, that's a clinically insane insinuation and one which concerns me.

Trust me, if the family does want to press charges against these 4chan users, they will have a case. They should be held responsible for being so reckless and heartless, telling an obviously deranged and depressed man to 'do it' and encouraging him to commit the crime; whether these users really believed he would commit the crime is irrelevant.

Still on trial. There is a precedent of culpability for these sort of crimes.

No it's not irrelevant.

Given that 99.99% of things posted on 4chan aren't serious, it is legitimate to give the people who posted there the benefit of the doubt when it comes to their knowledge of the crime to be committed. These facts point to them taking this thread as a joke as they should have considering the nature of the board on which they posted.

Besides, they didn't have knowledge of the individual hiding behind the anonymous account which further proves my point. It's not like prior to the crime being committed they were certain or almost certain that he was a deranged and depressed individual. No serious lawyer could prove it.

The prosecution would eat the defence alive with that argument.

was he athiest or agnostic? Ugh not a good look for non-believers as he was said to be ANTI-religion.

I truly wonder what the logic is behind a **** like this .. Literally killing people because they don't have the same beliefs as you? Like what kind of insanity is that These people literally make no sense at all ...

Chris Harper-Mercer is his name. 26 year old mixed race male who was a conservative, and didn't agree with the Black Lives Matter movement.

FIGURES

how many more mass shootings before they will actually do something?
or the americans dont have the balls to protect their own citizens?

So sad

This is the extremely sad. One does not expect such incident in a country like United States America. As a hopeful of joining an American university, I need to be really careful where I apply to now.

didnt he agree with the black dude that shot the white co-workers (new report incident) though?

So sad. What a disgusting sociopath.

Well that is ****ed up...

Jesus Christ praying for the families

I know :/ Mess. I almost feel like it was a set up to make non believers look bad :/ RIP to the students tho
Sounds like every religion that has ever existed.

it happens here a lot tho
like way too much
its horrifyingly sad but not unexpected