CA: Walnut Creek boy set out to hunt sex offenders with his BB gun
The then-17-year-old boy was armed with two things: his BB gun and a list of local registered sex offenders, available through a public statewide database that tracks them, according to authorities.
The teen proceeded to travel around town, accosting and threatening people convicted of sex crimes, and occasionally shooting at them with the BB gun. On March 15, he was arrested on suspicion of brandishing a weapon and assault with a firearm, according to police and court records.
The alleged targeting of sex offenders is reminiscent of a more serious incident last year, in Fremont, where a 29-year-old man allegedly posed as an accountant, went to the home of a convicted child molester, and killed him, later allegedly bragging to police how good it felt to stab the victim.
In both cases, the sex offenders were targeted through Megan’s Law, a site that tracks people convicted of various sexual offenses and publicly lists their photographs and addresses.
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It’s getting worse out there. People are getting dumber each year. It’s only a matter of time before they push too far and the retaliation hits back harder than they ever thought it could.
That will be the worst possible time for us. Let me be clear. If a PFR gets attacked and responds in a gruesome and violent manner making an example out of the attacker in a barbaric manner it will not stop their behavior, rather it will give them another reason to hate us and make more of them target us.
I am not saying “do not defend yourselves” what I am saying is use restraint and make sure that you do not go extreme. Making a bloody horrific example out of a vigilante would feel great. It would feel like justice served, however it would have the opposite effect in the end.
We must be smarter than them. Everything we do must be well within the law. The moment that we cross the line, we will show them that we are the animals they fear is to be.
The only way we win this is by getting the courts to realize the registry is violating the constitution.
I have stood up to a bunch of these creeps. I mean if an entire group of them surround me, I would pretty much be dead meat, but if I have to go back to jail, I am able and willing to protect myself. The cowards who got me the first time shot a bullet through my window, but it was not in the room I was in at the time and seemed to be a .22 round from the size of the hole in the glass.
It went right over my roommate’s head and into the wall above him while sleeping. After that he moved out and I do not blame him as nobody should have to deal with that. And repeating what I said in the past, when I called the cops, they said if I do not have a suspect, the only thing I could do was file an online incident report. So, I did, and never even got a follow up.
Geesh. Good thing to see those registry are not punitive. Way to go SCOTUS showing the toilet you’ve become. OUR country was founded as a democratic republic to protect the minority from the majority. The slippery slope we’ve travelled from republic to o mob rule..
The media and law enforcement is radicalizing the ignorant.
Charges should be upgraded to attempted homicide and brandishing a weapon. 17 years old and making idiotic choices. What a waste!
Just one more in a long list of reasons the registry only does harm and benefits no one.
The shooter, predictably, also drugs teenage girls, according to the article.