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Two innocent men have been burned alive by a massive lynch mob after WhatsApp rumours branded them child abductors.
A large crowd gathered outside the police station after rumours spread about the two men.
A mob dragged two men out of a police station, savagely beat them and then set them on fire, killing them, after a false rumour was spread on WhatsApp about the pair being child kidnappers.
The mother of one of the men made a desperate plea for the crowd to stop as she watched the lynching unfold on a Facebook livestream.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-46145986
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(Score: 2) by Bot on Wednesday November 14 2018, @10:51PM
I agree. OTOH it's quite easy for a bureaucracy to impose additional burdens over burdens till guns become unpractical. So, there should be some kind of "unsafe zone", e.g. you break into a house, you can be shot by whatever, the owner won't have to explain why the gun was illegally kept. The gun registry should not be geotagged, so you know that person X has Y gun but not where it is kept. OTOH the owner is fully responsible for the safety of the gun. Toddler shoots, owner is legally the one who pressed the trigger.
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