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Comment by fortran77 | Hacker News Reader

Really? The Police don't consider _that_ a credible threat? Wow!

To be credible, the person making the threat needs to be able to act on it. If I say "I am going to shoot you right now" but am not holding a gun, that's not a credible threat.

I assume the police saw a 14yo who can't take an Uber by themselves and cannot buy a gun and said "yeah, no way he could follow this one through".

Edit: I'm not saying the kid shouldn't be punished, or that the law shouldn't be something else. This is just answering how that particular tweet that was being discussed was interpreted by police to not constitute a "credible threat"

I'd guess there are more than a few 14-year-old children with access to a gun and an Uber account.

Regardless of that, isn't it still a crime this child committed?

She tweeted a picture of herself with a gun _with_ the threat. It says so right in the article.

It was a razor scooter held up in such a way as to look like a gun.

It's clearly an AR-15 hand guard

Please stop spreading disinformation.

https://i.redd.it/hxurx642mwd31.jpg

And for context:

https://i.imgur.com/NpvySvG.jpg (Pewdiepie)

(It's edgy humor/let kids play on their skateboard)

This is a bad faith argument, Pewdiepie isn't directly threatening anyone. Soph was directly making a threat.

She can't keep getting away with this.

They totally come with Picatinny rails...

Police will interpret and enforce the law in ways that aren't always legal. I wouldn't consider their interpretation of what a credible threat is to be canonical.

Apologies for forgetting to answer this at the time, but there seem few if any obstacles toa smart 14 yo taking an uber ride and you seem to have overlooked the possibility that her parents already own one or more guns, which is extremely common in the US.

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