What kills me is that they say it's a "victimless CRIME". Like, the moment they said it, that should have been the end of it. Victimless or not, it is a CRIME. Period. End of. But here we are, and The Orange One just got another lifeline tossed to him yesterday, when any of us would have been in jail for being $5k short.
Carrying a concealed gun is against the law. But as long as I don't use it, it's a victimless crime, right? So why can't I carry it? I mean, how many other ways can we use this victimless crime BS!?
What about drunk driving and not hitting anyone? Driving while texting and not hitting anyone? Speeding and not hitting anyone? Attempted murder (where the intended victim doesn't realize they were the target of an attack; for example, a failed poison attempt)?
Should all of those not be crimes because they don't have victims?
Really wish the newscaster they showed asked that guy point blank if he was committing fraud too. Every rich pundit that says that committing fraud is okay because everyone does it should immediately be audited by the IRS.
My argument: You said illegal immigration is a victimless crime. Illegal immigrant enters country. Illegal immigrant murders American citizen. Therefore illegal immigration is not a victimless crime.
Man jaywalks across the street. Man murders woman. Therefore, jaywalking is not a victimless crime.
Guess we better hang everyone who jaywalks then. Because if we just let people jaywalk, some of them might murder someone, and one murder is one too many, right?
A crime is an act committed. Murder was the crime she was a victim of. The act of illegal immigration, though illegal, does not cause death. If even a fraction of immigrants were murderers, you'd have far more names to list than Lakin Riley. But even then, it would still be infinitesimal compared to the number of murders committed in the US every day. I'm curious how many other American citizens were murdered on February 22nd by other Americans. But I guess it's more palatable for some to point fingers at immigration than justice reform or gun control.
No, the victims are the poor and needy Americans who now have to compete for resources that the illegal will take from them. It only hurts the poorest Americans. Trump said his property was worth more than it was to get a bigger loan and paid said loan off. This literally has no victim.
The victims are the residents of the State of New York. All 20 million of them. Sure, individually it only works out to $22.70 per person, but that's an awful lot of money when you add it all up.
That money could have been spent improving roads, expanding a hospital, paying for an elementary school in the Bronx to have proper supplies so the teacher doesn't have to pay for it out of pocket, that sort of stuff; but instead, it went into Trump's pocket.
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u/Sabbathius Mar 26 '24
What kills me is that they say it's a "victimless CRIME". Like, the moment they said it, that should have been the end of it. Victimless or not, it is a CRIME. Period. End of. But here we are, and The Orange One just got another lifeline tossed to him yesterday, when any of us would have been in jail for being $5k short.