
Because he made the choice. It doesn't matter what led to that choice, he made it and he executed the choice. He's to blame. |
No good comes from jumping to conclusions. Certainly not when there are crazies trying to publicly shame anyone they can. |
He’s a kid. He was in college. Do you plan to cut off your kids the second they turn 18? |
Shame the driver…sure. But the family doesn’t deserve to be abused online. As stated in this post, he is an adult not a child. Stop dragging the family through the mud for his poor choices. |
But really, one, big, very, very bad decision. |
We’re never going to agree on this one. Almost 18 year olds are frequently tried as adults under egregious circumstances. This particular juvenile killed a child. The prosecutor stuck to her promise and tried him as a juvenile. Nothing outrageous about the community disagreeing with her decision and expressing a view about how an elected official carries out her duties. |
I guess we'll agree to disagree because I think focusing your energy on defending an 18 year old drunk driver is morally repugnant. And I wonder if he didn't look like what he looked like and wasn't from where he's from if you would feel this passionately about not jumping to conclusions. But there I go jumping to conclusions about you. |
if he was an 18 year old Mexican, he'd be a MAN for sure |
They were sitting on laps |
DP. We don’t have to drag this all out again but their behavior was outrageous. The campaign ad? Yuck. |
No, it was unhinged and outrageous and the charge was led by people who ignored the “child’s” contributory negligence, went after the teen driver especially hard because he lived in a different community, and then tried to exploit the entire sad situation for their own political gain rather than respect the law. |
No one is defending him. He should be held accountable for his actions. But that is for the judge/judicial system to decide. Not some angry mob of people who care more about “publicly shaming the family” than waiting for facts. |
As I said, we will never agree on this. In deference to the actual topic at hand, I’ll shut up about it now. |
His family isn’t being abused here, and was not being abused on the prior thread. No one posted parent names. No one posted even a public social media profile. This legal adult killed someone. |
DP, I don't think you understand. We're judging him and ALL drunk drivers, the same way we judge people who shoot a loaded gun into a crowd. Because this behavior puts us ALL at risk. I will unequivocally judge ALL drunk drivers (and people who drive high), because it is such a needless, selfish danger to all of us. |