08-24-2014, 01:33 AM
I very much believe that a good person can kill someone when they have harmed their children; however, as much as I would like to endorse vigilante justice at times, think Barajas, if convicted, would need to spend some jail time to keep order in our society. I would have complete empathy for him, but some facts of this case just jump out. First of all, what 30 year old man with a family drives without taking responsibility to fill his gas tank. O.K. someone in my family does that and it bugs the heck out of me......Anyway, he runs out of gas, dark road, no lights, kids in back pushing car. The father put them in harm's way. No, the drunk (I assume a toxicology test was done to determine how the degree of impairment) should not have been driving, but in this country, we rarely send repeat offenders to jail, we keep releasing them to drive and possibly kill themselves and/or others. If you are driving at night, just assume that there are drunk drivers on the road. When drunk drivers kill someone, normally they have a record of DUIs. Maybe if after a couple, they had to do time with in-house treatment, they would be off the road and Barajas children would not be dead. I don't remember reading if Banda had history of DUIs but bet he did. In any case, it is a tragedy that is repeated over and over every day.