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A British woman was shot dead by her father last year after the pair had argued about President Donald Trump earlier that day. Lucy Harrison, 23, was fatally shot on Jan. 10, 2025 while visiting her father, Kris Harrison, in suburban Dallas at his home in Prosper, Texas. Harrison moved to the U.S. when Lucy was a child.

Prosper police originally investigated her death as a possible case of manslaughter, but a criminal case in Texas was not brought after a grand jury in Collin County opted not to indict him. Her death is being investigated in Cheshire Coroner’s Court in England.

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    Typical maga loser. So sorry for the woman, standing up to fundamentalist extremists in her own family.

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    On the morning of the shooting, at her father’s four-bedroom, $900,000 home, Littler said Lucy had asked her father, “How would you feel if I was the girl in that situation and I’d been sexually assaulted?” while they were discussing Trump.

    Kris responded that he had two other daughters living in their home, so it would not upset him very much.

    FAMILY VALUES!

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    He claims it was an accident, and honestly, even if I completely believe his story and take him at his word (I don’t) what poor impulse control from that childish, ignorant, weak, stupid, fragile man. No surprise he’s a Trump supporter.

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    Now replace British by Muslim and trump by Allah (or Black and Obama), and watch right wing media explaining how “these people” are dangerous and not compatible with “our values”.

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      Our values

      It is within their value framework, just not the correct belligerent and leader

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      Unfortunately in their minds, like the police and court, they’d still think the father was faultless AND ignore/miss that comparisons completely

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        Yeah turd, about that… I’m first nation, so you pack your shit and you and your insecure white male club go milk cows in England, or something. Cunt.

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        donald tRump is a barely closeted gay man, and you fantasize about him jacking your half hard shmuck in his face to the beat of YMCA. The men you idolize from harder times would kill your soft doughy ass on sight for your boots, and you would probably thank them for it. Go pick turnips and feed yourself to the hogs.

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    Murdered his own daughter for a person who fundamentally hates him.

    The “I don’t know how the gun went off” thing is bullshit. Even if it was accidental, which it wasn’t, then she’s still dead because of his actions.

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      There is no such thing as an “accidental discharge” when guns are involved.

      Only “negligent discharges”

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        This, I always get slammed for it in gun communities but I think Glock convincing everyone that pistols don’t need safeties (and later that safeties are a liability) is the single most dangerous action in the gun community in my lifetime. Safeties aren’t there to keep the gun from firing on its own, that’s just any modern gun that doesn’t malfunction, they exist as a final measure against human error.

        If you buy a gun without a safety and allow anything to touch the trigger when it’s pointed at something you are not fully comfortable with shooting, you are negligent.

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    Forget the whole Trump angle that might be motive. Why wasn’t he at least charged with manslaughter? It seems outrageous that he could claim accidental and get away with it.

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      you missed the part where women aren’t people in Texas. women are property. he owned his daughter because she was his daughter. and in America, you can do whatever you want with your property.

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    “My daughter, who was always mad about my guns, agreed to come see my new gun. I don’t know how it accidentally shot her in the head.”

    That a grand jury in TX didn’t move on this is a real indictment of the citizens of that state. But we already knew what sort of people live there and are proud of their politics.

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      I mean, juries are chosen in part by the defense. You can’t treat them as a fair sampling of a population. You have to visit a place, learn its history, get to know people who have spent their lives there, and ask them their genuine opinion. Only then can you truly know whether Texas is a spiritually cruel, intellectually bereft, and socially monstrous place.

      Luckily, I can confirm this for you.

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    In a statement issued by his lawyers, the killer said, “I fully accept the consequences of my actions, and there isn’t a day I don’t feel the weight of that loss - a weight I will carry for the rest of my life

    Bull Fucking Shit.

    ‘Man’ murdered his daughter is cold blood and expects everyone to feel sorry for him. I hope he rectally gets he deserves in prison.

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      Prison rape isn’t funny or acceptable when it happens to bad people either. It just perpetuates the idea that anal sex between two men is always a savage act.

      Instead, hope he gets savagely assaulted regularly for what he did.

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        the leftism leaving peoples body when talking about prison abolition

        no, but honestly, violent revenge fantasies don’t help anyone, not the victims, and for sure not society. That goes for prison rape especially (as you correctly put it), but same goes for assault or other forms of punishment.

        Keep violent people like him away from people they could hurt, sure. But never give up trying to reform them into compassionate members of society. And if punishment is really something needed to put one’s mind at ease: The worst thing that could happen to him is he gets better as a human being and has to live with the consequences and guilt of his actions until the day he dies.

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          There’s certain conditions that you cannot reform. Murdering your own daughter over a verbal disagreement? We don’t have the resources to focus on rehabilitating him if its even possible. I’d rather these theoretical prison therapists spend more time working with inmates that went to prison for aggravated assault in a bar fight etc.

          Sure, in a perfect society where his rehabilitation program doesn’t take time, money, and mental anguish from the therapist…it’d be nice to just separate him from society and revisit his ability to rejoin as a productive member decades later. But as of right now I don’t want to pay 45¢ to cover the cost of his rehabilitation when I could instead pay 20¢ to rehab a less complicated individual and the extra 25¢ could go to social safety nets or education.

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          No, there are some crimes that deserve to be punished by death.

          This is not to rehabilitate or reform, it’s to protect the rest of society.

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            The death penalty probably doesn’t work. And talking about who “deserves” the death penalty is once again just lust for vengeance.

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              No, you are wrong.

              The death penalty works just fine for what it needs to do - it removes a threat to society.

              And some crimes warrant removing a threat from society.

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                Okay. And who decides what constitutes a “threat to society”?

                And you know that about 10% of people are wrongfully convicted, right? Is it okay to kill 10% innocents to “keep society safe”?

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        Also it’s clearly cruel and unusual punishment, which we are forbidden from using.

        I watch a court video the other day of a judge telling a young ‘offender’ that if he’s not careful, he will go to prison and get “passed around” by the other inmates. I thought to myself “This judge, who knowingly sends people to a place where he know they will get raped, is an affront to justice. What an immoral piece of shit who willingly works with a system that is contrary to our legally defined moral obligations.”

        It’s like Spencer Tracy said in the movie Judgement at Nuremberg. The very first time a Judge sentences one person to such unconscionable punishment, that is when the Judge becomes fully complicit with the system. Not just complicit, but a necessary and willing part of the system’s survival and propagation.

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    When he gets snapped out of his cult induced mind, he’s in for a hell of a time realising that he killed his own daughter in the name of a pedophile rapist.

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          I doubt it. I’m a US citizen and speak the US version of English. I understood your meaning, but it sounds like you think he will ever realize he did something wrong.

          This man, by his own admission, took his daughter into his bedroom to “try to reconcile with her,” and somehow in the next 15 minutes his pistol, which was in his bedroom not a common room of his, presumably ranch/rambler style home, appeared in his hand. At some point the Glock handgun that he owned “went off,” on its own accord, as he claims he didn’t have his finger on the trigger. If this gun were not a Glock, I might believe that. Glocks don’t have hair triggers. You have to squeeze with your entire hand to pull the trigger on a Glock, and they don’t go off accidentally.

          Beyond all of that, no responsible gun owner has their guns loaded at all times. I grew up all over but spent a lot of time in IN, KY, PA, and OH. I met a LOT of militia members thanks to my friend’s parents. These people keep guns. They also may have some ammo. The guns and the ammo aren’t laying around combined, they aren’t even in the same safe.

          This man knowingly committed premeditated murder on his daughter by even touching his gun while he was inebriated. The fact that he got away with it is just an indication of how broken our punishment system is.

          He’s NEVER going to “snap out” of it. He is in the worst echo chamber there is to claim he was justified.

          Edit: I’m a US citizen, a Life Scout, the son and grandson of multiple US Veterans, and US Navy Veteran, myself. I’m familiar with my guns. Heck, I own a small arsenal, but it is in Indiana in my parent’s land, and I live in California. I would need a serious reason to go dig up Matrix levels of weaponry. My crossbows are more than I need, and unlikely to be misused, as most people wouldn’t be able to even cock the bow or load the bolt.

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            This is exactly correct. There is very little chance that this wasn’t intentional, premeditated murder. This guy intentionally killed his daughter, he planned it, I believe he brought her into the room for that purpose and he knew what he was going to do.

            Non-Americans seem to be really struggling to understand our country. They keep expecting us to be able to “do something” about Trump. They’re acting like he’s a normal president that we willingly elected. Half of them are expecting American peasents to defeat our military using only muskets, and the other half expects the GOP to be moved by strongly worded letters. Whenever something like this happens in America, whenever a father kills a daughter in cold blood due to some honor-related reason, there are always comments from foreigners talking about “he’s gonna feel bad when he realizes he commited murder.” You guys, he knows he committed murder. It was premeditated murder.

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    I’m beginning to wonder if the libraries worth of books written about WWII were an attempt to try to understand a phenomenon, but in all that examination we were still unable to identify the best way to prevent or battle fascism.

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        I get what you’re saying but I think a better way is a far deadlier pandemic with an actual, perfectly working vaccine. Those idiots will refuse and kill themselves over their culture war.

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          I distinctly remember one old man who refused the COVID vaccine, dying in the hospital, that was asked by a reporter if he regretted not taking the shot. He said no and he’s make the same decision again. He died ugly and in pain, and I’m glad he suffered for his stupidity.

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            Change your own mind, ya misanthrope. You can’t hate humans better. The most important finding of all psychology is the Fundamental Attribution Error. Far less than our inherent traits, it is situations that dictate our behaviour.