Father indicted in death of drunk driver

[CaptainHaplo]

Originally Posted by Randomizer

Whenever firepower trumps the law you no longer have a society, you have anarchy. This father merely created more victims and did not even allow for due process to run its course.

What happened was terrible and as a father I can understand but never condone vigilantism without legal consequences. I hope he gets death but instead he'll be acquitted, become a hero and make a gazillion bucks on the daytime talkshow circuit and for selling his version of events as the movie of the week.

I disagree.

His actions were against the law. However, the law was created to protect the innocent. The law failed - resulting in the death of his two sons. An impotent law is no law at all.

Charge him for murder. In the US - he would likely go free. The reason - jury nullification. If the law failed him and his family - why should it stand to further punish him and his family for its own failure.