So, here's another gem out of Minnesota.

https://www.startribune.com/more-than-100-petition-for-early-releases-under-minnesotas-new-aiding-murder-statute/600344157

Minnesota uses the term "aiding murder" while it seems like most states use the term "felony murder. "

For those who don't know, that means that, if you're an active participant in a felony, and somebody gets murdered, you're held to the level of responsibility of the shooter even if you personally never pulled the trigger.

That's how it should be. If you agree to commit an armed bank robbery, even if you're just the getaway driver and don't have a weapon on you, you and your crew decided to get together and commit a crime that is likely to result in someone being murdered. If someone gets murdered because one guy on your crew pulled the trigger, that's murder for all of you.

This new law that Walz signed has actually already had a getaway driver for an armed robbery turned murder turned lose. It's a retroactive statute. There are a lot of people in prison for felony murder in Minnesota, who have been in there since well before the law passed, who are being cut lose or receiving dramatically reduced sentences.

The two women being cut lose in this story planned the robbery that resulted in the murder. It's well documented that none of this would have happened but for these two women. But, because the men did the muscle and gun work, they still qualify either for murder or felony murder. The women, who were the masterminds, and made the thing happen, no longer quality for felony murder, because they didn't do the muscle and gun work.

The defenders of this law all seem to point out that they want to be specific about the participants' role. They also say that these people didn't intent to kill anyone, and that they didn't kill anyone.

Yeah, that's kinda what Robert De Niro's character in Heat said before one of the most famous bank robbery shootout scenes in cinema history.

The didn't intend to kill. They didn't kill. They were definitely willing to kill.

Again, five armed punks were just arrested a few blocks away from me after a lot time of breaking into cars and, when they could, houses. That's why I finally decided to buy an AK.

Still, just imagine if they had broken in to my place. They decided to divide and conquer. I get up to use the bathroom having not heard anything. I encounter one of them. That dude shoots me dead.

In Arizona, and any state that doesn't have its head firmly planted in its ass, that's murder for all five.

In Minnesota, only the shooter gets charged with murder. The rest get charged with breaking and entering.

This is insane.