What I find similar between these two aggressors is both are violent and both set out with intentions of causing harm to another person whether it is physically abusing their wives or girlfriends or taking the life of a young person inside a club with a coward’s punch (king hit) but under the current laws in New South Wales and Victoria a man can kill a person with a coward’s punch and only get four years for it and can even be out for good behavior in two because there is no real way prove a man set out to cause harm to another person when they were drunk inside a court. This wonderful little loophole in our system has been around for a while and if these people weren’t under the influence of alcohol at the time of the attacks they would have received up to 20 years. There was another case last year where a bloke lit a woman on fire but only got five years for it because he was under the influence of alcohol.

Now, I am not saying alcohol is to blame here because I have known many people over the years like my Father In Law (who was a drunk) that made some very bad decisions when they were drinking but the big difference between them and my Father or someone that king hits people is they weren’t violent people nor did they engage in violent activities. Alcohol is becoming an excuse for violence in Australia lately and if our courts are going to continue with this ridiculous Jekyll /Hyde loophole then we might as well do what my Wife wants and illegalise alcohol since it has the power to make people violent and ‘turn men into monsters’ but I believe most of these people are violent to begin with and are in control of their actions but unlike the sober aggressor are even more calculative in some cases because they hide behind being drunk to excuse their actions and it often works inside a court.

They might not mean to intentionally take a person’s life when they king hit them but they do it with the intentions of causing that other person harm and should ultimately be held accountable for their actions and sentenced the same way as a sober person. I agree with your descriptions and both have different methods to their abuse but they are both abusers and they both see violence as power and a sick part of them enjoys it immensely. When your ex-boyfriend or husband abused you it was most likely his way of having power over you just like it was when my Father abused me and the man who raped my Wife when she was younger raped her. When a person king hits another person it is about power too which was why king hits were renamed coward’s punches by the government. This might be going a bit off topic but the question is what makes these people like this? Everybody is innocent at some point of their lives even serial killers and pedophiles. What causes this to change?