[DMCForum] Re: Vigilante Justice

["therealdmcvegas" <dmcvegas@xxxxxxx>]

--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Marc Levy <malevy_nj@xxxx> wrote:
> 
> --- cruznmd <racuti1@xxxx> wrote:
> 
> <SNIP>
> > 
> > I believe that the police have their function in
> > life. I'm no 
> > vigilante. Given an option, I'll call the police
> > over confrontation 
> > but when faced with an armed burgler/rapist
> > requiring a split-second 
> > decision, I'll shoot him dead every time. I agree
> > that there will be 
> > extremists who exercise deadly force when it's not
> > warranted and 
> > these people should be tried for their lack of
> > judgement.
> 
> I have never been in a situation like that, but I cant
> imagine it would be easy for an average person to live
> with the fact that another person died at their
> hands..  Obviously, if someone breaks in to your house
> to rape your wife there is not a lot of room for
> second guessing..  Just saying that maybe not everyone
> is prepared to have access to a weapon that can so
> easily kill..  Being tried for lack of judgment after
> the fact does not undo the event.
<SNIP>

That's true. Not everyone would be able to make that split second decision, if they've never 
thought about it before, and are suddenly confronted. And of those who could, how many 
would still opt not to take another life?

People only think about themselves. I remember this study that was done back when I was 
in high school. They asked a whole bunch of students, "Why should you not steal somthing 
from someone, or a store?" The number one answer was, "Because you can get caught." No 
one cared about the moral implications. Just themselves, and the punishments that they 
*might* recieve, if they were caught.

The problem with most modern criminals of course, is not that people are any worse 
today, than in years past. It's just that many of them have become fearless, because they 
know that their punishment for commiting a crime, won't be that bad. They don't fear the 
police, so they have no reason to abide by the law. Now, if more and more citizens begin 
to defend themselves, then criminals will then start to think about the punishments that 
they might recieve from fellow civilians, who themselves discard observance for the same 
rules. A good instance is this case right here. I bet you now that while this episode will not 
suddenly stop auto theft in this man's area, it will make criminals keep things like this is 
the back of their mind. And that is the first babystep we've got to take, on the road to 
putting the fear back into people who ignore the law. And while we remove the fears from 
those victims who are too afraid to realize that shit can happen to them to, so they've 
ignored it all this time.

-Robert



> 
> > <snip>
> > > "I'd rather be tried by 12, than carried by 6."
> > <snip>
> > I'll buy that for a dollar.
> 
> Robocop!!
> 
> 
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