If vigilantism was cool or legal, we'd consider Patrick Drum a real Miles Davis. But since it's not, we'll just have to consider him a violent man on his way to jail. In a Washington courtroom yesterday, Drum, 34, was sentenced to life in prison without parole for murdering 28-year-old Gary L. Blanton Jr. and 56-year-old Jerry W. Ray. Drum took their lives because he has a vendetta against sex offenders, and both Blanton and Ray had been convicted rapists.
Ray pleaded guilty to raping a 7-year-old and a 4-year-old back in 2002, and Blanton pleaded guilty, at 17, to raping a 17-year-old disabled girl. Drum evidently wanted both men to pay for their crimes, and took matters into his own hands. He shot them both multiple times.
Just as no one wants child rapists roaming around, no one wants lawless killers out and about, either. Ray's and Blantan's crimes were heinous and I'm disgusted that there are people out there capable of such things, but at the same time, I'm also appalled that there are those out there who think Drum is some kind of hero for his actions.
Apparently, he has some supporters who are stalking the victims' families, spitting on them and whatnot.
Drum murdered two people in cold blood. He's not a hero nor a pioneer. In fact, he's a criminal himself, having spent four years in prison on drug charges. He got Ray's and Blantan's names off the public sex offender registry and decided to kill them. He was suspected to be on his way to kill a third sex offender when cops intervened. What, exactly, is so brave and noble about that?
I guess he fancied himself some sort of Dexter character who could exact revenge on those who had done pretty horrible things, but Dexter is just a TV show. It doesn't work that way in real life. You can't go around shooting people in the face because you think they deserve it. Like Mom always says, two wrongs don't make a right.
Drum deserves life without parole because as soon as we show someone like him any leniency, the law becomes absolutely meaningless.
Do you think Drum did something good or evil?
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If the whole world worked on the basis of an eye for an eye,we'd all be blind.
Drum deserves life without parole because as soon as we show someone like him any leniency, the law becomes absolutely meaningless.
Are you kidding? We showed CHILD RAPISTS leniency by setting them free. GOOD FOR YOU, MR. DRUM!!!! A shame you weren't smarter about it and got caught.
I think it's awesome. The rate of reoffense with those types of crimes is really high. I wish he hadn't have been caught. We could use more people like that in the world.
there are 2 less child molesters/rapists in the world because of what Mr.Drum did. I think it is far worse what those 2 sicko pervs did: SEXUALLY ABUSING children, which will probably mess them up in some way or another when they get older, versus what Mr. Drum did, which was ridding out the world of those 2 sicko perverts! Sort of wish he was smarter about how he did it, he could have captured more of those subhumans and made the world even better. Don't get me wrong, murder is WRONG, but I think it makes it less worse when the murdered party deserves it.