The30YardSlant;4592046 said:
I can't remember the dad's name but the pedophile who he shot was Jeffrey Doucet. It happened in the mid-80s I think, and the dad was convicted of a relatively minor charge and got out in like four or five years.
I have no doubt he tells everyone that it was well worth it.
Yep. And I would agree with him completely. It would be well worth it to me if that was my kid. I wouldn't even spend a moment regretting it.
Cowboys&LakersFan;4592184 said:
I understand why he did it and if I were in his position it'd be very difficult for me to not do what he did, however you cannot take the law into your own hands. He should've just roughed him up a little bit and then wait for the police to arrive.
You can't, I agree, but in this case I don't blame him and I most certainly would gladly take the law into my own hands and I wouldn't regret it at all.
There are some things in this world that would set me off in the way it set this father off and I don't feel bad about feeling that way about it.
cowboy_ron;4592199 said:
When your daughter is screaming for help and you see a guy molesting your 4 y/o daughter, what is legal or not legal is NOT at the top of the priority list.
Exactly.
I don't care about the persons rights whose molesting my daughter. I don't care about his families rights.
The only thing I'd care about is what he did to my child.
There isn't a person in the world who defends filth like that who I wouldn't smile as big as can be at and not give a damn what they thought about it if I had to do what that father had to do.
Stuff like this always reminds me of the movie Law Abiding Citizen.
Everyone tells me that Clyde Shaw was supposedly the bad guy in that movie. I see that completely differently.
The line that always sticks out in my head is when his cellmate asks him what he did to get in there and he just shakes his head and says "I did what I had to do."
CanadianCowboysFan;4592241 said:
Now I am not sure how you drew the conclusion from my post but so be it.
He had the right to stop the assault assuming one was happening but I highly doubt the law means that once you have stopped it, you can then just kill the guy because well because you can.
I understand where you're coming from because you're right the law doesn't mean you get to do that.
I respect your opinion on the matter, I guess some here probably don't, but hopefully you'd respect the fact that if I were in this fathers place that I'd smile at you, and any other lawyer, who wanted to put me in jail for it and I would never blink an eye at your disgust over my vigilante justice.
Hostile;4592329 said:
I have an older half brother who is dangerous. He got involved in martial arts at the age of 5 and putting it mildly he is good at it.
When he was 17 but almost 18 a man raped our cousin. She was 13 at the time.
He beat that guy to within an inch of his life. I mean it was brutal from all reports I ever heard.
The DA knew a jury wouldn't convict him so the judge ordered him to join the military. Within 3 weeks of his time in Basic he was the martial arts instructor for his Camp.
He and I do not get along most of the time, but I have to say I always admired that he did that.
That father is within his rights and I would never bat an eye to him going free. Good. The monster can't do it to another child, and he probably had.
Good story. I have a similiar one in my family.
I have a cousin who was raped when she was 14 or 15 years old. Her older brother Eric, also obviously my cousin, knew the person and he beat the guy nearly to death with a baseball bat. He was just about to turn 18 at the time and of course back then they had that deal where they'd either send you to jail, if you were less than 18 or 21, or in cases like this you could agree to join the military.
He's now about to retire as the highest ranking Navy Officer that you can be. He's had a great 25+ year career in the military, has 4 wonderful children (2 boys of which are in the military now as well) and hasn't regreted even one time what he did or the decision to join because of it.
I haven't been around him very many times in my life but I can honestly say he's absolutely one of my heros and I can only hope to be half as good a man as he's been.
Kingsmith88;4592379 said:
I agree stop it, but continually beating someone until they are dead???? Not sure that is justifiable.
Once again I respect your opinion on this but I resectfully disagree.
There is no such thing as not justifiable in a situation like this involving your kids.
Cowboys&LakersFan;4592701 said:
I'm guessing you disagree with me and I have no problem with that. If I was a father I'd probably have a different opinion, but I'm not.
If you had children you'd have a different opinion of it or, IMO, you'd be a pretty terrible father.
If any father can honestly look a person in the eyes and say that they wouldn't do the same for their child....I'm sorry but I'd have to question rather you're much of a father or not.
a_minimalist;4592903 said:
Here's a question for those that think it's okay for people to go out killing child molesters. What happens if a couple people they killed were wrongly accused?
It's a horrible idea. If you want to punch them in the face a couple of times, fine.
No, no, no.
No one is advocating going out after the fact and stringing anyone up or beating them to death when you're told it happens.
Although, in that case, if a child could definately identify who did them that way and a father beat the guy to death I still wouldn't feel the least bit of sorrow or remorse for the sick fiend who did that to their child.
But none the less this particular article is about the father walking in on the act. Catching the guy as he was doing.
Whole different situation then, IMO, because then you're absolutely in the heat of the moment and I have a really hard time believing that any good father would be able to control their rage in that moment.
