Matt Lauer & Dr Phil Discuss Tommy Jordan’s Laptop Execution

Today Show Tommy Jordan Video

What is it with kids today? If i would have pulled a stunt like Hanna did, my Dad would have beaten my ass with a belt so hard i wouldn’t be able to sit down for a week!

As parent’s these days we cant use a belt or paddle to discipline our children. The kids know this and will call the cops or HRS if we lay a finger on them.

I agree with Tommy Jordan. And I would have done the same thing. After all, he couldn’t take a paddle to Hanna’s back side.

As for Dr. Phil McGraw’s comment: “You never, ever humiliate your child publicly’’ I sincerely doubt Hanna was “Humiliated” as Dr. Phil claims. I bet she got a lot of amusement out of it too.

The laptop-shooting dad may have drawn tens of millions of YouTube hits from parents living vicariously through him, but Dr. Phil feels he went about the punishment of his daughter the wrong way.

In the viral 8-minute video, North Carolina parent Tommy Jordan pumps eight bullets from a .45 into his 15-year-old daughter’s laptop after she posted some disparaging remarks about her parents on Facebook. The video now has more than 26 million views, and Jordan wrote on his Facebook page that he wouldn’t change a thing about his actions.

The local police paid him a visit, but no laws were broken and no investigation has been opened. Still, Jordan’s action is open to question, according to the host of the “Dr. Phil’’ show.

But the majority of more than 120,000 voters in an online poll at TODAY.com disagreed: 73 percent of them felt that this was an appropriate punishment by Jordan. So did many Facebook commenters. For example, Melanie Kukuk posted: “I’m 15 and I TOTALLY support what he did!!” And Jason-Davy Koren commented: “Way to go Dad!! We need more parents like this rather than the push over parents we have today who raise these zero respecting teens.”

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