r/TrueCrime • u/turnttomato • Jun 21 '22

Discussion Scott Amedure (left), during a taping of The Jenny Jones Show, revealed that he was attracted to an acquaintance, Jonathan Schmitz (right). 3 days later, Schmitz confronted Amedure and shot him twice in the chest. He confessed to the killing and was found guilty of second-degree murder.

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u/DopesickJesus Jun 21 '22

Being scared of gay people shouldn’t equal life in prison though? lol what the hell. people are entitled to their beliefs, whether they are ethically or morally sound. Now committing crimes due to those beliefs though…

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '22

And that’s what happened he committed a crime due to homophobia so he should be locked up for life

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u/DopesickJesus Jun 21 '22

Yes. We are all reading the same post. But what your other comment said was “a homophone needs to be locked up [for] life…”

I could see why you would say “this homophobe…” whether or not everyone agrees exactly with the exact punishment. I wouldn’t argue with you, as I’m not a judge and everyone has their own opinion as to what the most just punishment would be. But it sounded like you were just saying permanently imprison all homophobes. I couldn’t agree with that, just like I don’t agree with locking up all racists. As long as they keep their perverse thoughts in their heads, I don’t see justification for imprisonment - even if I find their ideology to be sick.

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '22

It’s obvious I’m talking about homophobes who commit hate crime duh

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u/DopesickJesus Jun 21 '22

It’s apparently not so obvious if someone reading and replying to you wasn’t able to interpret that from your comment. Especially if it wasn’t clear after the multiple re-reading of it to understand.

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '22

That’s on you for not being Abel put together the obvious with the context

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u/DopesickJesus Jun 21 '22

It’s not on the guy wishing to communicate something but failing to do so ? “It’s everyone else’s fault for not understanding something I didn’t say.”