Right. Put a moron like that in charge and Iraq really will descend into a civil war.
You've built up an image of the driver as a Good Christian Middle-Aged Family Man with a Wife, Two Kids (one boy, one girl, the boy is older), a Dog (a golden retriever will do), and a White Picket Fence. Trouble is, you don't really know anything about him.
Considering that he was driving around at 1 in the morning and that he resorted to deadly violence over a minor provocation and killed the kid when the kid was no longer a threat (if he was ever a threat at all), the driver is most likely a 20something gangbanger who has a shaved head, wears baggy clothes, votes liberal if he votes at all, and would be laughing his ass off at all the so-called "conservatives" who are leaping to his defense.
Most of the people on this thread are taking the side of the driver, but I guarantee you, if it's revealed that the driver is an illegal immigrant, people will be switching sides so fast they'll make Judas Jeffords look like the world's most loyal Republican.
"Considering that he was driving around at 1 in the morning "
Do you think the kid was a Good Christian Young Man with a a Dog hunting for easter eggs mommy hid behind their White Picket Fence at 1 am?
The fact stands, that if they had chosen to be at home at 1AM, in bed, dreaming about thowing eggs, the kid would be alive now wouldn't he?