A woman from Chesterfield, Virginia was arrested last month and faces a Class 1 misdemeanor that could stick her in jail for a year and result in a $2,500 fine.
The crime? Trading insults with someone online and posting a picture of herself holding a gun.
26-year-old Kristin Holmes got into an argument on Facebook with a woman who had mistaken her for someone else.
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Free speech isn’t free…???
The US Supreme Court is not the final arbiter of such things. Individual Enforcement Officers are. Welcome to the police state. Your rights are what Police ‘State’ your rights are…
I’m in agreement with you on this
I think that the “Pic” is what got her busted it could be construed as brandishing a firearm and could be considered in my State as terroristic threatening I think
Freedom of Speech doesn’t give us the right to intimidate with a gun
That’s considered a threat
If she did this out in public face to face with this woman it would be considered brandishing a firearm could be considered terroristic threatening, menacing and maybe even wanton endangerment if done in public in the State that I reside in and I live in a free State with awesome pro gun laws
The Pic is what got her busted in my opinion coupled with what she said
I don’t think that insulting speech should be prosecuted
But I think that threatening speech should be
There are laws on the books in most States against threatening people
You are right Myke, seeing the beginning of the end of freedom! If the Supreme Court can’t take your right’s away someone else will!
Al Jacobson this is how it works, if I call you stupid that’s may be an insult, if I call you a theif that’s slander. One may hurt your feelings the other may hurt your reputation. Your feelings are not protected, suck it up buttercup. If your reputation is harmed then you have the right to do something legally.
So, the person who intialy did the threatening of her is FREE??? To do anything she still wants to… She acted in Self Defense, with in all the protection rights afforded in the cons$#%&!@*ution,, Freedom of speech and the right to own a fire arm for that freedom,, and to use it “IF NECESSARY” ,, to let this THUG who actually threatened her know,, that she would protect herself… “WHEN SHE CAME LOOKING FOR HER”
This is how it works, if I was to say you are stupid that is an insult. Feelings hurt? suck it up buttercup. If i was to say you are a thief, that is slander. That hurts your reputation, defamation of character.
Its a XD.
WTF EVER !!!!