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How come people think that I can go to jail for threatening to shoot my former therapist at the grocery store?

So I told people on the suicide hotline that I'm think about going and shooting my former therapist at the grocery store. I was so mad and furious that I lost control and said it. They told me that they're gonna report this to the FBI. I told them to go ahead because they're just bluffing and won't really do it. I told andy about it and he said that I'm gonna go to jail if I keep this up. I don't get how can I go to jail for saying all of these things. I really never did anything and these are just thoughts. I don't think you can arrest somebody for having thoughts of shooting someone else as it is not probable cause. Thoughts are not probable cause to get an arrest warrant. How come people think that I can go to jail for threatening about thinking of shooting my former therapist ??????????

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  • Anonymous
    3 weeks ago

    His tiktok is @jacobnguyen 54999. No space. Had to break it up for it to show up.

    You have to download the app on your phone and search for his username. You can't access tiktok on the computer. It's an phone app.

  • Aspen
    Lv 4
    3 weeks ago

    Hmm. That’s a special kind of stupid. 

  • Anonymous
    3 weeks ago

    I take it you were the one in tennesee?

  • garry
    Lv 6
    3 weeks ago

    question will you kill the therapist ? you think about it , so its preplanned isnt it !! thinks they should mark your files as mentally unstable and never to get a gun permit ..

  • 3 weeks ago

    It's illegal.  Think before you speak.  

  • 3 weeks ago

    This is why the world has mass shootings and tragedies because of idiots like you! I cannot believe you are not in jail by now and that the FBI didn't track you down. Get mental help with that kind of talk. You are an evil sick and twisted person. You deserve to rot in a prison and be in a mental institution. It's only a matter of time before a shooting happens because of scum like you making threats and probably are dumb enough to kill someone.

  • 3 weeks ago

    I was once kidnapped by someone and one of the things the police took most seriously about the incident was that the perpetrator "threatened to kill".  It is a crime to do that. It's an offence under the Offences Against The Person act 1861 and carries a maximum jail sentence of ten years.  In the US it's a misdemeanour or a felony depending on the state.  If it's made with the intent of causing fear, it's not relevant whether the victim is actually afraid or not because of mens rea.  I suggest you look into this because I assume you're in the US and it varies by state.  If it's against a government employee you can get five years in prison for it.

  • 3 weeks ago

    Thoughts are not words.  They are two separate things.  If you think to yourself "I'm going to drive my car into a tree" it's a thought that is in your head.

    If you call someone and say to them "I'm going to drive my car into a tree" now the thought that was in your head, has now turned into words that other people know about, and are no longer just a thought.

    So when you told people on a suicide hotline that you were thinking about shooting someone, that's not a thought, that is now considered a threat.

    You can't arrest someone for a thought, if the thought stays in your head.  When you make vocal threats about someone to other people, they can get the FBI involved and have you arrested legally.

  • 3 weeks ago

    Blah, blah, blah.

    Whine, whine, whine.

    With all the various "threats" you've claimed to have made over the years you have to be a special kind of stupid to not be able to understand why the police can and do arrest people for making threats of harm and death.

    That you also claim to possess guns and have repeatedly threatened to kill other therapists along with friends, your family and the husband of the singer you are obsessed makes for plenty of probable cause.   The only thing that has kept  you from being arrested is that 99.9% of the sh*t you post is total fabrication on your part to make you appear to be some sort of "bad azz, vigilante".   You've been posting these fantasies for years and left a internet trail so wide and long that it will be a runway visible from space when law enforcement decides to go after you.

    I hope you do end up in jail, for a very long time, you are long over due to learn what life is like in the real world, to take responsibility for yourself and that you are not some "tough guy" but rather an immature brat that will quickly become the entire cell block's *****.

    Being autistic is not a free pass and being an inept troll and liar is not a disability, jacob.

    Source(s): 8 days and counting till YA will stop providing a platform. Your world is narrowing by the hour
  • 3 weeks ago

    You can't go to jail for your thoughts. But you might be thrown in the nut house. It happened to me.

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