Tipping Point Questions

Bernie Goetez is a successful business man who got on a bus one day and sat in the back where 4 black teenagers were causing trouble. Suddenly, he shot all of them, killing three and paralyzing another. Bernie feels no guilt for what he has done and he sees it as getting some of those kids off the streets. I'm not so sure how I feel about this situation. Murder is wrong, I know that much. He is a criminal, not a hero, but the kids were trying to take money from him. He could have turned them into the police, or done something a little less well, dramatic. Murdering 3 kids and severely ruining another's was not the answer.

I believe that prisons are meant to take a criminal out of society so that they can't harm others any longer and learn from their mistakes. Prisons shouldn't be a luxury place to be, but to the people who truly "learn their lesson" by spending time in jail will realize that no amount of fine living or good food will give them their freedom, they can't just leave jail to spend time with their kids or to run to the grocery store. They are stuck in a building full of thieves, murders, and child molesters. The people who complain about the quality of living in jail are the criminals who plan to be in and out of there for life and don't care about learning what's right and what's wrong.