A woman with a Death Wish, she's a female Equalizer.
Continued from Chapter 2:
Indeed, Laura Lion is a fighter. Indeed, she's a phenomenal woman. Taking her retribution out on them, it's true that she hunts bad men, criminals, and men who use, abuse, and hurt women.
Only, instead of turning them over to the police for arrest, to the district attorney for prosecution, and to the judge and jury for trial and hopefully conviction, she's the police, the prosecutor, the judge, the jury, and the executioner. The last salvation for women, she shows no mercy to men, bad men. If your thing is crime, especially if your thing is abusing women, trust me, you don't want Laura Lion after you.
Tired of watching criminals walk free in a court of law on a technicality of law, taking it upon herself to do the right thing, she has her own way of dealing with criminals. She has her own way of deterring crime. Having zero tolerance and a zero-recidivism rate, she has her own way of making sure that criminals don't repeat their crime against innocent women again. She's quick to take the challenge on the behalf of weak and submissive women who can't defend themselves. With her intolerance towards abusive men, she's always ready to fight the good fight.
All throughout history, from the Crusades, to the War of the Roses, to revolutions, civil wars, and world wars, no matter which country, tired of being used and abused, people are always ready to fight the good fight. When the chips are down and it's either you or me, from kings and queens, to knights in shining armor, to peasants with pitchforks, when enough is enough, we're all ready to do battle. Prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice, the American way, we're all ready to die for the cause.
We all have a bit of Laura Lion within us. Yet, with us living in civil societies with laws, just because your sister is raped and/or your mother is murdered is still no reason for you to take the law in your own hands. It's against the law for you to avenge them by seeking your revenge.
Chances are, even if you avenge your sister and/or your mother, you'd be no better than the monster who murder them. With the laws written against you and with you now deemed a murderer, you'll go to jail. Besides, that's Laura's job. Leave the vengeance to her. Leaving no trace or evidence, she has a way of taking care of those who need her form of quick justice.
Chapter 3:
From the Sermon on the Mount in the New Testament, in the Gospel of Mathew, chapter 5, an alternative to an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth was preached by Jesus. Instead, of seeking revenge for bad deeds done, He, our God Almighty, encouraged that we turn the other cheek. Alas, with her not very religious, when it comes to women being used, abused, and beaten, Laura doesn't subscribe to what Jesus said when confronted by the evil that bad men do. Always ready to do battle with good versus evil, with good on her side, unlike God Almighty, she'll never turn the other cheek.
She's out to get even by righting wrongs. She's out for vengeance. She's out to get her pound of flesh. She's out to turn the tables that have been turned against helpless, innocent women for centuries. She's out to evoke revenge for all the bad things that men do, have done, and continue to do to women. Ready to dole out her form of retribution, she's ready to sacrifice her safety and her body for your mother, your sister, your aunt, your cousin, your mother-in-law, your sister-in-law, and/or for any female stranger who needs her help.
In the way of King Solomon, as his personal objective of reciprocal justice in Judaism believed, an eye for an eye was his preferred law of retaliation. Subscribing to that way of justice, Laura believed that, too. Much in the way of a King or a Queen, quick to serve her sentence, with her sense of self-righteousness, she had no compunction in taking the law in her own hands. Ready to do battle wherever and with whoever, without fear of retaliation from them, she was tired of criminals doing whatever they wanted to do to whomever they wanted to do it, especially to women.
Yet, with her not totally innocent, with her no goody-two-shoes, Laura adhered to an immoral and illegal, personal code of her own. A volition of preferred revenge, using their immoral and illegal behavior as her retaliation example against them, she played by the rules of criminals to teach them a lesson that they'd not only understand but also that they'd never soon forget. As part of their forced rehabilitation, she disciplined them and humiliated them. Totally embarrassing, demoralizing, and emasculating, no bad man wanted to be disciplined and humiliated, especially by a woman, and a very petite woman at that.
Having a one-hundred-percent success rate, those criminals who Laura caught and disciplined, have never committed another crime. Instead of continuing in their criminal ways, she put the fear of God in them. Fearing what she'd do to them next, if she caught them abusing another defenseless woman again, fearing that she'd do worst to them than she had already done to others, as if suddenly finding religion, they now walk the straight and narrow. With some getting jobs and others reenrolled in school, with her making a positive influence on their lives, they've turned their lives around because of her.
Instead of stopping their violent behavior, instead of turning their lives around, her defeating them made them angrier. Her beating them made them meaner. They were the ones who were unable to rehabilitate themselves. They were the ones that a good beating wouldn't save them.
Instead, of a good beating changing their lives, especially a beating from a little woman, a good beating made them want revenge. A good beating made them want to get even. Now, instead of conforming and mending their ways, they wanted their pound of flesh. They wanted their eye for an eye.
They wanted to abduct her, strip off her naked, and gangbang rape her. Yet, good luck with that. She wasn't about to allow any man or group of men to take advantage of her in the way that they murdered her father, and raped and murdered her mother. After that tragedy, she may have been somewhat tolerant before, but she was no longer tolerant now.
With her having the routine and the instincts of a jungle cat, sleeping during the day and prowling the city streets at night, she went where the crime is and where the criminals are hiding in the shadows. Where most others would avoid bad neighborhoods, especially at night, she thrived on the criminal element being there. Always finding someone doing bad things, she was never disappointed by human nature of men doing stupid and monstrous things to women.
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