[quote]jbpick86 wrote:
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
[quote]jbpick86 wrote:
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
[quote]magick wrote:
Just curious what you folks would have said if there happened to be strong evidence that he committed the murder, but the jury let him go anyways.[/quote]
It’s tough. Had the father been carrying and shot him, I’d be okay with the jury letting him go. Going home to get the gun… Makes me a bit hesitant.
I’m not a big fan of someone getting the death penalty for driving drunk, but I’m okay with it if that person kills two young boys like he did.
Sometimes street justice is in fact justice. And I can’t say I wouldn’t be tempted to toss a couple at someone that ran over one of my kids driving drunk. [/quote]
I dunno. I guess I still look at driving drunk and killing someone as just a really careless decision (that most of the time the consequences are not considered), no different than a negligent workplace accident, or a negligent firearm accident. While I can sympathize with the dad and think that the guy should have gotten a very long sentence, if the dad killed him, he murdered him. [/quote]
No doubt he murdered him.
However I guess the issue with me is was it justified. Lets say I get awoken by a strange sound in the middle of the night, grab my maverick and head towards the noise coming from my daughters room. As I get closer I can tell it is muffled screams and grunting. I kick in the door and some meth head is trying to rape her.
Say I get a clean shot and take it. I’ve murdered him. Do I deserve to go to jail? Or is it justified?
I lean justified.
So that is why I’d be more okay with this DD’er getting shot if the father had the gun on him at the time. Once the father had to leave to go get his revolver it sort of diminishes the situation because he’s had time to let his front brain take back over. When in the moment, his cognition has likely shutdown at the horror of watching his young children be slaughtered.
It is, all the time. The Castle Doctrine is basically this, except you don’t have the ability to stop the driver…
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Difference between your scenario (which involves the Castle Doctrine) and this situation, is your hypothetical and the Castle Doctrine are based off of proactive measures to prevent harm, this was a reactive situation after the harm had occurred. [/quote]
I mena, fair enough, but you best believe I’m getting the shot off if he had just finished raping my daughter.