The suspect in the Florida State University shooter, who faces first degree murder charges for killing two and injuring five on Thursday was a member of Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA, a fascist youth group around the Republican Party, and is a registered Republican voter in Florida. The 20-year-old suspect, Phoenix Ikner, is the stepson of Leon County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Jessica Ikner, who has been with the department for 18 years.

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    3 months ago

    That’s fair but the text being OR and not AND means it is vague enough that you could apply it to punching two people as it is “a violent act” which “is intended to” “injure”.

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      3 months ago

      That’s not how I read it personally.

      You need to

      Intimidate, injure, or coerce a civilian population;

      AND

      Influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or

      OR

      Affect the conduct of government through destruction of property, assassination, murder, kidnapping, or aircraft piracy.

      Notice how the influence part has a very explicit or on the end of it, but the intimidate doesn’t

      If all you had to do was injure someone, and not be trying to influence or alter the conduct of the government through the action, it turns nearly everything violent thing into terrorism.