I personally think it's very low risk that this sort of vigilante justice will become an epidemic. most people really don't have it in them, beating the shit ouf of someone, especially someone most people just want to forget is rare. The circumstances surrounding this case won't happen very often, a guy who is an outed molestor who has escaped the law because of a retarded statute of limitations, a man who has the balls to actually find him and follow through with the assault and a judge and jury who will let him off scot free. Lynch must have known that proving the priest was a molestor was a lock, in most cases that fact wont be present so the person taking the law into their own hands won't have much of a shot at getting off the way Lynch did. The rare time something happens like this I will pump my fist. I agree that it's probably not in the best interest of law and order but due to the circumstances I'm happy to overlook that. Lynch deserves a pat on the back.