u/InternetExplored580

Location: New York, USA

I chose New York, as it has one of the strictest gun laws in the country. This will take place in a high school, and all the students are underage, specifically 16.

In this scenerio, lets say there is a school shooter named “Shooty.” He is Mentally ill, angry, and wants revange.

The student who shoots the shooter will be named Greg.

Shooty comes into the classroom Greg is in, pointing his gun around and saying he will kill everyone there.
But before he can shoot, Greg quickly goes into his backpack, takes out a gun, and kills Shooty before he can hurt anyone. Then, he puts his gun on the ground and raises his hands up until cops arrive.

Greg has been bringing his gun secretly to school for months on end, having aquired one illegally, having discreetly buyed it on a black market. When questioned, he says he only brings it for self defense and no other purposes. He is described as a normal and friendly person by his classmates, is mentally healthy, and his record is perfectly clean except for this moment and when he secretly got his gun.

My question is: What would happen to Greg in this scenario? What legal consequences would he face?

Because on one hand, he saved who knows how many people from being killed. But on the other hand, he has not only been hiding the fact that he carried a gun to school for months, but has also gotten it illegally as he is underage. Does his good deed outweigh his other crimes, or would be still be punished harshly despite it?

It all started when I searched for an old fanmade Super Mario Bros 3 game I used to play.

I found a Mario and Luigi superstar saga ROM hack just….available. Just there. You could just tap on it and play it, just like any old flash game. The site I went to just had Mario games, even old ones like the original Mario bros. Nothing too out of the oridnary. But then, i wondered how far this went.

I went to another site. I saw Nintendo DS and N64 games just….out in the open. Just tap and play. I was starstruck. These games…you don’t understand. When I was younger, all we could do was play flash games. If we wanted to play the real game, we couldn’t just play it. You needed the console, and you needed the game. So all we could do was play fan games to get by.

But this….these are games that younger me never even thought could ever be played like this. On a laptop. FOR FREE. No console, no game, no nothing. The games are just….THERE. Games like Pokémon soulsilver and explorers of sky are just THERE. These are EXPENSIVE games. And you’re telling me you can just PLAY THEM? FOR FREE???

I was already amazed. But then I thought if we had went a step further. I wondered if 3DS games were free just like this. Impossible right? There was no WAY.

Now, I have no experiance with rom hacking whatsoever, though I am a bit more tech savey than most. And yet, all I had to do was just download an emulator, look for the ROM of a game i wanted off a site, and then just drag that file into the emulator….AND THE GAME JUST RUNS??!!!!! IT JUST RUNS?!!!! THIS IS A 3DS GAME AND IT JUST RUNS??? FOR FREE??!!!! NO CONSOLE? NO GAME?!!! JUST….FREE?!!!!!!

HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE. MY YOUNGER SELF COULD HAVE NEVER DREAMED OF THIS. WE PLAYED ON COOL MATH GAMES. NEVER COULD I HAVE IMAGINED WE COULD JUST PLAY THE GAMES OF OUR DREAMS FOR FREE LIKE THIS….!!!

IT WAS THAT EASY?!!!

THINK ABOUT THIS. IMAGINE ALL THE KIDS OUT THERE WHO ONLY HAVE A LAPTOP. JUST A LAPTOP….! AND THEY CAN PLAY ALL OF THESE GAMES?!!! N64 games, DS, games, 3DS games?!!! ALL OF THIS IS JUST AVAILABLE FOR FREE?!!! AND IT ISNT EVEN THAT HARD?!!! HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE?!!

I always knew ROM hacks were a thing. Like little tales you’d hear of a land far far away. But I never thought in all my years that they could do magic like this. And be so….EASY! Nintendo would send their own SWAT team to kill YOU specifically for doing shit like this. And you can just donut for FREE! I AM AMAZED!!!!