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Ghost I have to disagree on this. The girl is FOUR years old. The dude was a pshycofreak like jerry sandusky and needed to be taken away from society so he couldn't harm anyone else. In that case theres two options jail and death. The guy saved taxpayers so hes a hero, especially in texas.

ya'll are debating the wrong point... whether he deserved to die or not isn't the legal issue to be debated. Whether it is reasonable to pummel a guy in the head when you find him raping your 4-year old daughter is the issue. How anyone can say that it isn't reasonable to defend ANY 4 year old in that manner, let alone your OWN 4 year old is beyond me. That's what the man did. The attacker died as a result. He didn't use "lethal force" intentionally. He didn't shoot him in the face. He didn't chop his head off. He punched him repeatedly, and did not mean to kill him. He acted appropriately under the circumstances. The attacker dying is almost irrelevant.

A couple of blows to the head would have sufficed. That's all you need to stop the guy.

Its good that you would take a cool calm and collected approach to witnessing a 4 y/o being raped. That will prove itself useful someday

I've been trying to verbalize how I feel on this matter, but really can't. I'll sum it up as best as I can. If you walk in on someone molesting your child, by all means, kill them.

At the same time, I don't like the idea of citizens having the legal right to decide life and death over an unarmed or incapacitated citizen.

Ideally, this person would have been arrested, tried, and then the dad would have been given the right to finish the job if he so pleased.

I guess what I'm getting at, and I'm not saying this happened in this case, but let's say you walked in on another person with your child who was doing something that LOOKED suspicious to you, but really wasn't, and you mistook it and beat him to death.

Bottom line I guess I'm glad this POS is dead, but I don't like the precedent.

How many blows did he throw. It might not have been many. He needed a WWE crowd to count the blows.

Yes, then 99% of everyone is dumb, insightless, and emotional on this subject then. You are one of the very few people in this world who wouldn't react in that way.

I understand the father's emotional reaction in this case but in general gHost is 100% right. There's a justice system in the US for these situations. That some here emotionally say the attacker should automatically be removed from the planet is completely contrary to the US constitution.

In the courts, it's not punishable by death.

However, use of lethal force is allowed by law to stop this act.

Hence why, legally, these emotional issues are warranted but yes null and void. He acted in accordance to the law so that's that.

It was in the "US constitution", or rather the Texas lawbooks. It would never be in the constitution, but he acted according to the law.

Ayfuckinmen. How many more little girls lives were saved by this a piece of shit going to hell. Everyone knows that pedophiles are so mentally fucked up that they are one of the worst repeat offenders. Yeah just punch the guy a couple times for trying to screw a four year old girl, that's all that needed to happen. As far as I'm concerned all baby rapers deserve to leave this planet early.

Ghost your mentality would definately change I believe if you were a father.

Ironic that the court system, or rather the legislative system, gives citizens the right to use "vigilante justice".

Courts only exist to decide if the law was followed.

Legislative branch exists to create laws.