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jmra wrote:Ultimately as law abiding citizens we have to let the justice system work. If someone runs over one of your kids and you decide to dispense justice, the only thing accomplished is your other children will be without you while you sit behind bars.

Quite honestly if someone hit my child my first thought would be to render aid to them. I would be far too busy trying to do whatever I could for my child to even think about doing anything to the driver. If someone else woud be so kind as to keep them from taking off I'd appreciate it, but harming them does not help my child.

There is a difference between a person who through an accident and no major negligence hits a kid and a person who is being unbelievably negligent and kills a child through his own stupidity and lack of care for he child.


Anecdotal story:
I remember when I was about 11. We lived in a place where there was practically no back yard or front yard. So us kids played in the street. Where else could you play? My parents drilled into us car saftey like mad, but not every person did, or if they did the kids did not adhere to it. One day we were leaving home and a child from the block was riding her bike looking behind her. My dad stopped started to honk his horn. She paid no attention and drove her bike directly into our car and went underneath it. She was fine, a little shook up and her mother was so furious with her that I feared her butt would be even more bruised by the end of the day. As a parent now I say if it was she deserved every swat. She could have easily got herself killed.

There is a difference between that and a person driving at 7pm through a residential.