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Originally Posted by bdav
Thats a silly analogy - Your aiming a gun, you drop it - nothing happens.
Your driving a car, you let go - you generaly hit someone/thing.
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But Roy wasn't suggesting that he had dropped the gun. He was suggesting that "he fired the gun but did not think the bullet would hit anyone".
My analogy is built on that.
I drive my car, but I don't
expect to hit anyone. I do realise that it is a risk. If I point my car at a crowd of people and
then drive it I am
likely to hit someone.
The difference comes down to intent. If I point a gun into the air it is (highly) unlikely that I will hit anybody, however if I point my gun into a crowd it is (highly) likely that I
will hit someone.
In Roy's example, if I were to say "sorry, I didn't think it would hit anybody" after deliberatly driving/aiming towards a crowd of people then I would obviously be talking crap.
However (dragging this back on topic) the learner driver was parking his car, he did not
expect to hit someone, he was not parking it intentionally to hit someone, therefore it isn't pre-meditated. The only
pre-meditated acts were: driving the car not in accordance with the licencing conditions, driving whilst uninsured.
He is certainly not going to be found guilty of pre-meditated murder.