Assuming this is true, this guy's a hero
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That first sentence is a mess, and hard to parse. I would have gone with something like "when my daughter was six she was molested by her best friend's father."
As to the case, whether you think his actions were right or wrong, surely "your six year old daughter was asking for it" has got to be considered some sort of "fighting words" or at least a reasonable trigger for intense anger. Whether or not the execution was right is another matter, but that must be some sort of extenuating circumstance. He should have been recording, if he wasn't. Evidence against the rapist, and a potential excuse for shooting the piece of shit.
It's always weird when you see these cases, and the guy goes away for such a long time. Vigilantism is a bit of an issue, but the dude probably isn't a threat to society, since he already killed the scum who hurt his child. Meanwhile, they're letting out gangbangers the next day, and people with massive violent rap sheets are back on the street and killing people. It's a sick joke.
To any decent human being, yes. There is no moral negligence in failing to be prepared for such an extreme act of provocation that preparation is impossible.
Yes, but we're talking about lawyers and judges, not decent human beings.
They could easily argue that going there armed and opening with pulling the gun on the guy makes you the aggressor and the initial provocation. Which, they really aren't wrong about, even if morally its exactly what you should do.
True, but still, you'd think that would at least somewhat mitigate things. Yeah, pulling a gun is bad, but telling him his daughter wanted it is completely unrelated to the gun, and other cases have been tossed out when it was deemed an emotional response was understandable. Maybe charge him with intimidation and brandishing, but not murder, or something.
Heck, if people can get away with murdering people because they claimed they said "nigger," I think "I didn't rape your six year old, she was into it" is certainly a reasonable excuse to, well, you know, the thing.