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He'd be justified to go get a gun and kill the people involved.

• evanmoran 13y ago
  No he wouldn't. What happened was horrible beyond words, but that does not justify murder.
  • hga 13y ago
    Justified or not, "If This Goes On..." eventually the moral calculus is going to shift to where that's an acceptable response, and one sufficiently supported by the population that solving many such crimes will become very, very difficult. There are many consequences to excesses by the state like this case, and this is probably one of the more minor ones.
• patrickg_zill 13y ago
  What happened was pretty much rape... and rape used to be a capital crime, for which you could in fact get the death penalty. Strangely, it was struck down in 1977.
  • dragonwriter 13y ago
    > and rape used to be a capital crime, for which you could in fact get the death penalty. All felonies used to be capital crimes, for which you could in fact get the death penalty.