Revenge

Okay, this wasn’t exactly a Righteous Shooting, but the principle is the same:

Maria del Carmen Garcia couldn’t bear the sight of her daughter Veronica’s attacker, Antonio Cosme, after he was freed. At the tender age of 13 in 1998, Veronica suffered a brutal rape at knifepoint by Cosme, their neighbour, who was originally given a nine-year sentence.

However, during a day release in June 2005, the unrepentant predator brazenly confronted Maria at a bus stop close to her home near Alicante. Adding insult to injury, he had the cheek to ask Maria “how her daughter was”.

After Cosme swaggered into a bar her family often visited, Maria, fuelled by anger and terror, bought petrol from a nearby station. In a bid to inflict some form of justice, Maria entered the bar with the fuel, drenched Cosme in it and set him ablaze.

And now the good part:

With burns covering 90 per cent of his body, Cosme didn’t survive and succumbed to his injuries days later in a hospital.

Our Hero Mom’s been jailed, of course, but:

Originally sentenced to nine-and-a-half years’ imprisonment for murder, Maria’s conviction was decreased to five-and-a-half years upon appeal. This sentencing sparked a national outcry in support of the anguished mother, with a groundswell of voices rallying to prevent her imprisonment.

I would have suspended her jail sentence had I been the judge.

The old Texas defense of “He needed killing”  is entirely appropriate here.


Here’s the rest of the story:

Back in 2011, after serving one year and 10 days behind bars, the courts placed her sentence on hold pending a pardon application, recognizing “special circumstances”, such as her clean criminal record and her insanity plea at the time of the crime.

Yet Maria’s freedom was short-lived; by 2013 she found herself back in custody when the regional high court in Alicante rejected her attorney’s request to delay imprisonment post-government denial of her partial pardon petition. Come 2017, however, she earned the privilege of daytime leave, setting the stage for her full release the following year.

It’s all old news, but good news nevertheless.

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According to Reader Andrew T., it seems as though this asshole went around a whole bunch of houses in a neighborhood outside San Diego, trying to break in for purposes as yet unknown, but let’s just assume it wasn’t to sing hymns.

Eventually, of course, he managed to actually break into a house and attacked both the homeowner and his wife — and then discovered, alas too late, that you shouldn’t bring just a stick and a rock to a gunfight.

Yup… Our Hero Homeowner popped him in the chest, and the Mass Burglar quickly assumed room temperature.

It doesn’t say in the news report, but it seems pretty clear that the cops just took the dead body away, shook hands with the homeowner and carried on about their other business.

Which is as it should be.

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From Reader Brad_In_IL comes this excellent summary of something that happened in my old home town outside Chicago:

1) Woman is frightened of scumbag,
2) Woman obtains order of protection against scumbag
3) Scumbag breaks into woman’s apartment with malfeasance in his heart
4) Woman shoots scumbag dead.
5) Cops, firefighters are called to clean up the mess.

And for those interested in the details, here they are.

She’s not going to be charged… not even in Illinois would they dare.

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Unfortunately, while the March of Progress continues apace (more and more goblins getting wasted), the details of the Tampa and Tucson Righteous Shootings are sketchy, so I can’t gloat, simply rejoice.

I must make one comment, though.  When police are called to the scene of a would-be home invasion, find an actual room-temperature home invader, and their only comment is:  “Yup, I thought it might be him,” then I don’t want to read any crap about charges filed against the home defender.

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From Houston comes this fine story:

Police said the driver went to the address to deliver a pizza and was confronted by two men demanding money at gunpoint. According to HPD, he pulled out his own gun and shot, killing one of the men. The second man reportedly ran away.

Here’s a good part:

The driver then waited for police officers to respond to the scene.

Always be sure to get your story in to the fuzz first, before the surviving scumbag can start raving about “being attacked while we wuz jus’ walkin’ around” or similar bullshit.

Of course, the driver’s going to get fired because “corporate policy” (more bullshit — I’d give him a bonus), but at least he’s still alive.

Unlike one of the choirboys (“Guess The Race”), who was probably “just about to turn his life around and was even enrolled at Malcolm X trade school”  or some similar nonsense (even more bullshit).