How many fire starters do we need?

I’d hate to think setting people on fire is becoming a trend, but it was only weeks ago that I wrote about a high school kid who was set on fire by a 16 year old assailant who admitted that he was motivated by homophobia.

Horrific as the incident was, I figured that the good side was at least that sort of thing didn’t happen too often.

Wrong.

KNOXVILLE (WATE) – A 15-year-old West High School student was arrested Monday morning for assaulting a teacher by using a lighter to ignite her hair and shirt.

School resource officers responded to a classroom around 10:45 a.m. According to the victim and witnesses, when teacher Gabriela Penalba, 23, turned her back to the classroom, a male student lit her hair and shirt on fire.

Other students quickly helped put out the fire.

The suspect then tossed the lighter out the window while Penalba was getting help.

The suspect fled from officers, but was quickly caught after a foot chase. He admitted to the assault during a police interview.

One of the commenters said this:

I go to the school this took place at. I can honestly say that I’m worried about the future of the kids at West. I passed him in the hallway when the cops were escorting him and he was laughing. He deserves all that’s coming to him. This isn’t even half of it. He is one of the biggest bullies at this school.

I can’t help but in both of these cases, the fire starting assailants were:

1) underage; and

2) thought setting people on fire was funny.

That they are not sorry means they have no remorse about torturing human beings, and that by any definition of the term, they are psychopaths.

Is there some reason that simple fact cannot be recognized?

Rather than studying people’s brains in the hope of labeling people who have done no wrong as psychopaths, wouldn’t it make sense to at least take steps to protect the public from people who have engaged in actual psychopathic behavior, and shown no remorse for it? Instead (if past experience is any indication), monsters like these two will soon be set free to do awful things to other people in the future.

As usual, it seems there must be something I am not getting. Anyone who can fill me in, I’m all ears.

Rather than scan the brains of the innocent, wouldn’t it be better to lock up the guilty?


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12 responses to “How many fire starters do we need?”

  1. Frank Avatar
    Frank

    Maybe the 15 y/o in Knoxville figured he could get away with it. After all, they are about to reduce the charges in Oakland, at the request of the victim’s parents. No big deal, Eric. Reward psychopathology and you get more of it.
    I don’t know who is more insane, the fire starter, or Luke Fleischman’s parents.
    http://www.ktvu.com/news/news/local/bus-burn-victim-returns-home/nb6XL/

  2. Neil Avatar
    Neil

    Eric, Eric, Eric. You simply don’t have the right attitude about these things. Get with it, man–it’s society! Officer Krupke can show up to take these kids away, but it’s all just a social disease.

  3. Bobnormal Avatar
    Bobnormal

    I have said it before, psychopaths, once identified, should be put down, for there own good, and societies, cruel yes, but…..
    Bob

  4. Bobnormal Avatar
    Bobnormal

    I mean put down like a rabid dog that bites

  5. OregonGuy Avatar

    Never having any limits placed upon behaviour, is it surprising that the individual can’t suss out the importance of behaviour limitations?

    I’m sure this young man had a great deal of personal dignity. And entitlement.
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  6. TheAJ Avatar
    TheAJ

    I love how so called liberty, freedom and small government advocates actually want to entrust the government and police with identifying, locking up and to “put down” pyschopaths.

    You can’t make this stuff up.

  7. Frank Avatar
    Frank

    @The AJ – who said anything about the police doing it? Ever heard of Bernie Goetz?

  8. TheAJ Avatar
    TheAJ

    Even better, we’ll leave it to right-wing internet warriors to sort it out.

    You can’t make this stuff up 🙂

  9. Frank Avatar
    Frank

    AJ, forgot to ask, where you been the last month or so, signing up for Obamacare? There’s a new dental plan you may be interested in.
    http://ninetymilesfromtyranny.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-obamacare-dental-plan.html

  10. TheAJ Avatar
    TheAJ

    HAHAHAHA. Its funny cuz they is black and they haz grillz! get it?! Yuk yuk yuk!

    In all seriousness, I was busy, working with my comrades trying to figure out how our army of coloreds is going to enslave the good decent white folks in (real) America. The good part about being part of coastal America is that allows for easy pincer manuevering against (real) America.

  11. Frank Avatar
    Frank

    Any, and I mean ANY, criticism of Dear Leader is automatically attacked as racist by leftists like you. After the farce of Obamacare the man shouldn’t expect ridicule? He’s too good to be treated like you guys treated W? The lying SOB should get a pat on the back, or another pass like he did at Columbia? Yeah, the records would be available if it wasn’t affirmative action.

    Clueless doesn’t even come close for this piece of excrement, a faux-graduate of Harvard Law who writes a note to children about teabaggers. But then without his teleprompter and ghost writers who knows what will come out of his duplicitous mouth. Constitutional law scholar, my ass.

    As to the grillz on Mouchelle, the nice doper ex-felon tending my local garbage dump has them, and he’s lily white. To spell it out for you, the “gold teeth available for all” line refers to her penchant for extravagance at taxpayer expense, like the Costa Del Sol trip with entourage of hundreds, or was it thousands? And her traveling in Air Force 2 with a separate plane for the dog, and Dear Leader in Air Force One. Why not “Gold Teeth for All” in place of “Let Them Eat Cake” as her motto?

    The President who bails out Wall Street, resides over 20,000,000 unemployed people, ignores the highest rate of African American unemployment in decades, spends more time on the golf course than in the Oval Office, and fumbles the most important piece of liberal legislation in the last 50 years, this incompetent boob and race hustler, is the object of leftist loyalty and your hero?

    Please tell me that you don’t have a poster of Che tucked away. Don’t destroy my illusion that even leftist scum have some decency.

  12. Frank Avatar
    Frank

    A serious question for TheAJ:
    How much longer do you think the majority of people in this country will ignore the knock out game, the flash mobs, and a corrupt justice department? And what you do think will be the result, culturally and politically, when and if they’ve had enough?