I find myself wondering why we are all surprised, even perhaps
shocked at the idea of sexual predation amongst the rich and famous. Well, at the least, I guess, we are mad as
hell, and we’re not going to take it any longer. Until the next incident that is.
I’m thinking maybe we should reconsider how we treat certain
types of crimes. For example, suppose all the girls who were raped or otherwise
abused carried guns (NRA pay attention). And suppose they
had been taught to use them. And suppose further, we decided as a society that
shooting/killing a sexual predator/rapist was not treated as a crime, but instead
a simpler, perhaps more efficient form of justice.
Think of the number of priests who might have been offed,
and consider how that might have changed the sexual predation habits of priests—a
centuries old habit we think. And then fast forward to Jeffrey Epstein.
Suppose, the first, or at least one of the first of the girls he abused had
been armed. And suppose, she simply shot him, and he died as a result. His
predation days would then have been over, and then consider how that might have
changed Donald Trump, or any of his friends who liked to get it on with “very
young girls”. Maybe young girls might now be a bit safer.
So, instead, we ship the errant priests off to yet another
parish. And for the Epstein’s of the world, we circumvent the real criminal
justice system, and give the bad boys a slap on the wrist and a warning to
behave better in the future. But they
never do behave better do they? And actually, we know they won’t, because they understand
that they will get away with their behavior.
Part of the problem of course, is that we at least pretend
to believe in the rule of law. And the current rules allow sexual predators to
deny all charges and claim the girls are lying. Perhaps short of catching them
in the act, our rules of this game often allow easy escapes, especially if the
predators are sufficiently rich, or if the institutions housing/protecting them
(the Catholic Church comes to mind) are sufficiently influential that our
system ignores them.
So, shooting the predators seems a nice, tidy solution. It
introduces a few little problems obviously. Arming a bunch of 12 year old girls
could arguably result in other problems. For example, instead of yelling, “nyah,
nyah, nyah nyah” at each other in the lunch room, one could imagine a
frustrated girl just pulling out her Glock and offing her abusive friends. Seems unlikely perhaps, but bullying does
have consequences. So, we would need to
deal with such incidents. Maybe the shooter could get suspended from school for
a week. Bet that would stop the bad behavior, huh?
And if a girl gets raped and then shoots her assailant, I
suppose we would need to consider even tougher measures. I don’t know, maybe a
week’s suspension and a whole month of counseling. See, we would be treating the shootings with
the same seriousness we now treat the rapes, and sexual trafficking.
So, I suggest that our criminal justice system take a good
long look at how we protect youngsters and how we are willing to deal with the
results of predation, should the girls finally tire of being raped by the idiots
of the world. So, Jeffrey Epstein, beware. You may be the next target practice.
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