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"The guy had obviously had piss poor parenting and was an extremely poor judge of limits and boundaries of reasonable behavior. He was over due for being slapped down hard."

Of course! By his contempt for being called in for his government slavery, his anger at the attempted enslavement is perfect proof of his unfitness to be a parent. You and Janet Reno would be in agreement here! Burn down his house for holding more powerful views of human liberty than you do!

"Better now than after he knocks the head off of his child or significant other. I'm just not sure this will be a sufficient lesson from the sounds of things."

When you have no case, the government thug calls the the "accused" an abuser or molester. Anyone who questions government thugs is a wife beater, right?

Not at all.

His language and behavior demonstrate a very low degree of impulse control.

AND,

there's no slavery to a reasonable duty to live in a largely free society.

I didn't consider military service slavery either.

You don't like jury duty--go live in a culture without it.

It's part of the package of BEING AN AMERICAN--especially being an AMERICAN CARRYING YOUR SHARE OF THE LOAD

REGARDLESS OF WHAT OTHER JOKERS DO.

I stand by my psychological assessment of the joker even from this distance and this amount of info.

Even though violent acting out is by research findings very hard to predict . . .

I will predict . . .

unless this guy alters his underlying attitudes and ways of being in the world--someone close to him or a store clerk or co-worker or boss down the road is going to be hurting much more than from just the emotional hurts he likely flings right and left with abandon.

My record on such predictions is not flawless but is evidently much above the average of my peers according to them.