And certainly never in a fight with someone who would kill you if he could. Or like in this case would kill you, a little girl, and her mother, after raping the child.
Which is why you post airy nonsense like "We are *better* than the deprave rapist."
I'd forgotten what the idiocy that dominated 1960s liberal thought on punishing criminals sounds like.
When a Mexican neighborhood captured the Night Stalker rapist/murderer here in SoCal he barely escaped with his life. They beat him relentlessly and only stopped because the cops arrived. Good for the vatos.
“I suspect from your posts that you’ve never in your life been in a fight. “
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Let me be clear:
It’s not to be your concern who I have or have not killed or paid someone to kill.
It’s only by the Grace of the Salvation that I am at this time in my life, alive.
Jesus Christ is the reason I can live with what I’ve done in my past shallow, wasteful life.
Not you. So exactly what you’re trying to preach here will fall on my deaf ears.
Self defense is perfectly fine with me. In times of extreme rage in the protection phase of protecting those we love and those we hold to be precious is understandable.
Rage for rage’s sake, though?
No. That is in ‘the flesh’ and part of sinning.
You want to eliminate a rapist caught in the act, and you are the person who caught him/her/them and you can save someone’s life or physical being by taking the life of the offender/s?
Fine by me. I truly have no issue with that.
Violence done to someone after that phase out of a sheer anger to cause them harm before death?
You’re now on the slippery slope of being an animal, yourself.
If you wish to devalue yourself to that level, then there are very few that can reason with you or keep you from doing that, short of force.
As for myself, having walked through a few things I do not intend to repeat I’d rather die and face my Lord than do some things, again.
Acting in sheer rage is one of them.
By the way, we *ARE BETTER* than them if we keep from being them.
By the Grace of the Lord Jesus Christ.