"Only mistake Scotty Hatfield made was failing to shoot that rapist to kill . . . I'd have shot and killed him."
Ping
If someone raped one of my close family, they would die. That’s justice.
If someone as much as laid a finger with ill intent upon my daughter it would be the last thing they ever did.
Ditty dood it, diddly?
Frankly, I’m afraid I’d happily spend the rest of my life in prison, if someone EVER harmed my grandchildren. I’m a widow, I’d be fine.
I would’ve like to have been on that jury. He would have got a parade.
Ditty needs to spend the rest of his life in jail.
Revolvers don’t jam. Bad choice of weapon.
“Underage” my foot. “Underage” means fifteen, sixteen, or seventeen, not eleven. Eleven is child molestation. The headline makes it sound like it was a guy hitting on his teenage girlfriend.
Bring enough gun.
As much as one sympathizes with this father, vigilantism is illegal and should be punished. For instance, there were two other people in the car with the rapist, including a minor child. If the gun in misfiring had hit her instead, would he still deserve a metal?
Now if a trial had been held and an obvious gross miscarriage of justice had occurred (e.g., acquittal on a technicality), that might have been the time for Scott Hatfield to resort to vigilante action. It would also have allowed him to plan his revenge much more carefully. The fact that he used a damaged gun and endangered other people shows that he either wasn’t thinking very clearly, or else he truly was as dim a bulb as his actions suggest.
Scott Hatfield’s prison sentence sounds perfectly reasonable, based on the description of events in this article.
Just wanted to point out that I doubt she said, "I've allegedly been raped!"
Wow. That would be a heck of a jury to serve on. Frankly, I’d have to hear the testimony.
Men will kill in defense of their family. It’s an instinct and a good one. Done after the fact and in place of due process it just has to be illegal, or civilization breaks. Understandable as it may be.
The great risk in vigilante action, of course, is that the vigilante is wrong. He’s all well and good and “understandably enraged” until he pulls the trigger on an innocent person. There’s a good reason for due process, and as agonizing as it is sometimes, it slows the “revenge” process and forces some discipline to making sure that the ~actual~ right person has been nabbed.
I think sentencing could be a point of consideration. The enraged father taking out his daughter’s rapist in a moment of passion isn’t the risk to society at large that is the gangbanger thug who just points and shoots guns out of car windows at random. He’s highly unlikely to ever do it again. I’d give him a far lighter sentence that the gangbanger. Far lighter.
But consider the enraged father who hunts down and kills the wrong guy? A totally innocent person is dead. What now?
That part of the headline appears to be inaccurate, since the story says the accused attacker hasn't even gone to trial yet.
Let me tell you a story...
Outside of Macon off a country road
Justice was forsaken when they let the wrong man go
Johnny Law was shady first one on the scene
They called it murder in the first degree
Dead man walkin’, walkin’ down the hall
Judge says guilty but still he’s standin’ tall
Dead man walkin’ they say he broke the law
Takin’ the life of another man who done his daughter wrong
Light ‘em up, lay ‘em down
Take ‘em out but there’s more of us around
When wrong is right and right is wrong
Oh there’s a dead man walkin’ tonight
Walk on...
Walk on...
Walk on...
OOOOOOOOOoooo...
If I ask you a question, would you tell the truth
Would you pull the triger if you were standin’ in his shoes
Dead man walkin’ I know what I’d do
If someone hurt my baby I’d be walkin’ too
Light ‘em up, oh lay ‘em down
Take ‘em out but there’s more of us around
When right is wrong and wrong is right
Oh there’s a dead man walkin’ tonight
Walk on...
You gotta walk on baby
Walk on...
Ooohh...
You gotta walk on baby
Walk on...
OOOOOoooooooo...
Yeah...
So if I ask you that question, would you tell the truth?
Ahaha...Dead man walkin’
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Same here. Even if I didn't at first succeed, I would be back.