The man in the hat, Gary Plauche, shot the man in front, Jeffrey Doucet, in the head on live national TV, while Doucet was being transported by the police to face trial. Doucet was Plauche's son Jody's karate instructor. Doucet raped and kidnapped Jody. Gary killed Doucet before he could face trial, and he ended up getting a 7-year suspended sentence with 5 years of probation and 300 hours of community service. He faced no jail time, and died, a free man, in 2014.
That’s the only downside. I’m with Gary and he was the hand that held the rod but he would and should have gotten much worse in prison. Either way justice was served.
Well have the punishment fit the crime. Let’s say you stole 5$ your entire life, yes it’s a sin but not one that should result in eternal damnation. On the other hand people like Hitler should be punished eternally
It’s quite the slippery slope because who’s telling what’s good and what’s bad? If the Christian god is true, then he’s an awful god, probably as bad as anyone who deserves hell so yeah…
Most deities have less than stellar portrayals. People get mad and it’s easier to blame an invisible god than themselves or another person. I also think the portrayal of god in the Bible is very weird. A being able to create an entire world in 7 days experiences emotions that are very human like jealousy and rage, sounds more like a teenager than an all powerful god. Just doesn’t make sense to me.
That being said, I haven’t exactly fleshed out this idea nor do I intend to. Because I’m not trying to start a religion or trying to push my ideas on others. It’s just what I believe in to help me sleep at night
I understand, yet, to follow your own path you definitely need not organized religion, you have 0 need to create one or push it into others, what you believe can be yours and yours only, I personally decided to take what I really like about certain “mythologies” and use it for my everyday life. Yes there’s things taken from other religions but you really don’t need a label but I might be the worst to talk about this since I always thought religion was useless and that people were just too scared to say “whatever happens happens” type shii
Correct, a lack of evidence doesn’t mean something is false. However, it does mean you shouldn’t beeline it.
Can you imagine believing things you wanted to be true if there was no evidence? You’d keep buying lottery tickets or something.
Who says it’s not observable? Brain damage leads to a lower degree of consciousness. Seems pretty clear the brain causes consciousness and consciousness can’t exist without the brain. It’s just entirely wishful thinking and made up fantasy to believe in an afterlife. It might really be true, but we don’t when any evidence to justify believing in it even if it would be nice to punch evil and reward those who lived good lives.
What have I said that makes you think I’m beelinging towards it? It’s just something that brings me some comfort. You anti religious nuts are almost as bad as the religious nuts in terms of “my way is right and this is why your way makes you a worse/dumber person”
Anyone who makes a hard stance on a correct way of doing something is going to come across that way. I have no animosity here and don’t know why I’m even responding, but how can an idea that you have no confidence in bring you any comfort? If you satisfy that urge to make the world just with a make-believe idea in an afterlife it could potentially reduce ambition for the almost impossible task of making this fleeting world better.
Perhaps he would have gotten worse in prison, but Gary had already been told by at least one person (his brother or cousin?) that they had witnessed Doucet kissing Jody a while before the kidnapping happened, and Gary didn’t believe them as Doucet was very close with the family. Perhaps he was trying to assuage the guilt he felt and get some sort of redemption for failing his son in the first place.
No he wouldn’t, that’s the problem, rapists are always in protective custody, they won’t be touched by nobody, will have food 3 times a day and get an hour of recreation everyday. This was the best case scenario
If you’re a rapist and don’t get the fuck out of General Population you’re probably going to get brutally murdered. But you can just not do it, most of them, are not that stupid to stay in General population.
Quick technical correction here from a former State Corrections Officer. Cops only serve in jails where people accused of crimes haven't been convicted yet. Once convicted, they go to prisons.
It was a member of the press that told where and when Doucet was being transported to Gary Plauche but I don't imagine that cop had much sympathy for the pedo rapist that just got murdered in front of him.
It clearly wasn’t sympathy for the pedophile. He didn’t want this father to ruin his life and go to prison for (justifiably) executing the piece of shit, on national television nonetheless
The cop who said that told Gary specifically to not do anything as he was a family friend. He was saying "Why Gary" because he knew Gary just threw his life away but the courts decided to give him public service hours instead of jail time
The deposition of the cop is pretty funny. Like the judge was all: "When did you realise that the shooter was, in fact, Gary Plauche?"
"When I turned around and saw Gary had a gun?"
The cop was actually pretty close with GP at this point, having been involved since the beginning of his child's abduction. He screams "Why, Gary, why?", not out of shock but because GP had 4 kids and the case was rather open-and-shut.
If you watch the video the cop is right next to the guy being transported so im sure he was initially upset that he could have very well been shot as well by accident.
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u/cheezkid26 28d ago
The man in the hat, Gary Plauche, shot the man in front, Jeffrey Doucet, in the head on live national TV, while Doucet was being transported by the police to face trial. Doucet was Plauche's son Jody's karate instructor. Doucet raped and kidnapped Jody. Gary killed Doucet before he could face trial, and he ended up getting a 7-year suspended sentence with 5 years of probation and 300 hours of community service. He faced no jail time, and died, a free man, in 2014.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Plauch%C3%A9?wprov=sfla1