This story contains details that are truly horrific and not for youngins or faint of heart. In my perfect world I would reach in my desk drawer…grab my mind eraser and go on with my day. Sadly I cannot and will not get this out of my head anytime soon. You don’t have to read it to answer my question.

I remind myself that we are a civilized society that has laws and penalties to discourage those from doing these terrible things to other humans. The harder part is not wanting an “eye for an eye” justice in these situations. But even the threat of “an eye for an eye” justice won’t stop people from going postal.

I don’t know this Fidel Lopez or what his history mentally or criminally. Even if he was perfectly normal sane person who just snapped or bat shit crazy….either way what the hell do we do with them and can we do to hopefully to keep someone else like his girlfriend from being eviscerated like a trout? What more can we and should we do as a society to correct and hopefully prevent tragedies like these?

Topics: justice, prevention, murder, NSFW, horrifying, heinous crime, Postal, correctional institution.