I do not applaud application of unjustified gratuitous violence against criminals. It is not the way things should be done in a nation of laws.
However, ever since the woke wave began releasing violent criminals willy- nilly, the BLM riots, defund the police movement, increased attacks on officers, etc., and consequent rise in crime rates, I have been concerned about the seeds of vigilantism in the U.S. Good people will tolerate the lawlessness only to a certain point before citizen warriors take things into their own hands. Once enough law abiding citizens have been touched by violence, there will be a consensus that "enough is enough". With the number of armed citizens in this country, it is a short step to vigilantism if government is impotent to stem crime. I suggest that most of us here would consider taking the law into our own hands with sufficient provocation and failure of law enforcement.
I said when all this nonsense began that the pendulum would swing back against the criminal element, and that the criminal subculture would rue the day they took the criminal path. We saw the response to rampant crime of the 60's and 70's and there are a lot of really bad people under lock and key as a result. Our governments can put muscle back into law enforcement and corrections that will cause an immediate downturn in crime. I only hope the government is able to make it happen before vigilantism takes hold.
Like the Willie Nelson song, Whiskey for my men and beer for the horses.....
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