Trumble posted...
No, because usually when the situation is that the law doesn't hold people accountable, it plays out in the form of either police failing to push charges or the courts failing to give meaningful sentences.
I can fully see how someone frustrated with this would resort to taking the law into their own hands, and I don't really blame them. Those who are upset about the course of events here should be directing that anger at the police, the courts, and the legislators who are allowing a soft-on-crime approach to prevail, instead of at people who tried to bring consequences to those that the law was failing to do anything about, because this likely would not have happened otherwise.
Do you have some evidence that this specific 13 year old would have responded to a "hard on crime" approach? Or what's the alternate approach that's lacking that you believe that absolves the men of responsibility?