Eye for an eye

It seems like this year is going to be a bad once for the Crazies. We’ve had people shooting up elementary schools; we had Arial Castro kidnap and rape those girls for 10 years in Ohio. A man in California shot a mother and son, and burned the house down before kidnapping the daughter last week. In Desoto (south of Dallas) a man killed 4 people and wounded 4 more, including 2 young boys, and threw a live grenade in someone’s living room. (Where the f%^K did he get a live grenade?) It seems as though shit’s going south in a hurry. So here’s my question: What ever happen to an eye for an eye?

Now, let me clarify. I understand that in a civilized society, we cannot have people roaming the street dishing out vigilante justice like a John Woo film. We need law and order. When the bad guy has had his day in court though, and is found guilty (especially something obvious like the Castro trial), why can’t we go Old Testament on them? I know we’re supposed to forgive, and be next to Jesus, but that’s feels like something that is harder and harder to do these days, especially in cases that involve children. In the few cases where we know the individual is guilty and did horrible things, like the Aurora, Colorado shooting, why can’t we get creative with the punishment? Why not a game of hot potato with a live grenade? We can set up a dunking booth with acid and give softballs to all the victim’s families to throw at the bull’s-eye

Sure this is all hyperbole. I don’t expect any of this to take place. It just seems as though we are beginning to show sympathy to the people that don’t deserve it, when there are people out there with cancer, or hungry, that could definitely benefit from the money we spend housing some of these sub humans. At what point does our need to be humane actually start to hurt us? The money that the state will use to house Ariel Castro could easily go to some ones medical bills. If we know that these people can’t function in society, why allow them to function behind walls? I know it's not what Jesus wanted, but I think Moses would have been cool with it.


Can we at least dunk Beiber in some acid? Maybe that'll cheer me up.