Just because the old perv may or may not have been armed means nothing.
Anti gun prosecutors bring charges and win convictions all the time. Even when they clearly should not.
Tate Adamiak ring a bell?
Prosecutors lie, suppress evidence, twist the facts, use expert witnesses to give false testimony all the time because they almost never face any consequences.
Is they do its usually the taxpayers that foot the bill.

End. Of. Story.

Michael Becker,

I hear what you are saying and there is a lot of merit to your point.

Nevertheless, assuming that the old man had no weapons (which is all but guaranteed or else the father’s actions would have been open-and-shut legally justified self-defense and the prosecutor would never have charged the father), the prosecutor can argue that father should have been easily able to rescue his daughter with his bare hands and feet–and thus simply executed the old man out of anger.

Look at it this way. At some point when an adult is feeble enough (due to advanced age or disability), they no longer represent a significant threat to a child once a fit adult male arrives to rescue the child. So, while I would never find the father guilty if I was on the jury, I can see how/why a scumbag Far Left Prosecutor can think that he/she has a cute way to punish the father for carrying a firearm and using it. Saying it another way, the Prosecutor almost certainly knows that he/she will never get a conviction–and doesn’t even care since the process is the punishment.

Mark,

The very fact that the prosecutor is going after the father all but guarantees that the old man was unarmed. Otherwise, it would be an absolutely crystal clear, open-and-shut case of legally justified self-defense and the prosecutor would not have charged the father.

Kidnapping a minor IS the definition of “grievous bodily harm” and it’s legal use deadly force to defend a third party. This, based on what I’ve read, is a pretty clear case of legal defense of a third party.

uncommon sense:

The rest of us had and have no knowledge of whether the bad guy was armed or not, or what kind of weapon he may have been armed with. A bit harder to decide about this action without knowing that. (A bit harder, but not impossible–a person’s life was at stake).

We really put up with way too much bulllshit from people for no reason at all and all that does is hurt the rest of society.