re: #20 Locker

For the record I don’t think the guy was a vigilante. Using force to stop harm coming to another person is legal… gun, knife, chair, fist, bite and do whatever you can if you’ve any sack at all. If it’s a person they can submit and you should let them but a dog on a kid and listening to reason.

My only complaint is the unregistered weapon. All cars are registered, all guns should be registered. In fact I think every single gun should be fired and have ballistics kept on file and matched to the weapon. Serial numbers can be removed etc.

If the registration process was reasonable, you’d have a case for that second part (though I still would not agree). But as I said, in this case the argument is undercut by the bad behavior of Washington DC’s city government.

And the guy didn’t get away scot-free. He got fined $1000. That’s not a huge punishment, I know, but in this case jail time would not have been in the interests of justice. This is one I’d suggest closing the books on, being glad that the child was saved and the man who saved him is now raising funds for his care.