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To: MtnClimber

When the state ceases to arrest, prosecute, and incarcerate criminals , the criminals become more brazen and vigilantes arise.


5 posted on 01/30/2023 9:44:51 AM PST by Fai Mao (Stop feeding the beast, and steal its food!)
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To: Fai Mao
When the state ceases to arrest, prosecute, and incarcerate criminals , the criminals become more brazen and vigilantes arise.

Self-defense is not vigilantism.

From Merriam Webster:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vigilante

: a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate)
broadly : a self-appointed doer of justice

I wish FReepers would stop using the term inaccurately. Of all people, conservatives should know better what vigilantism is and what it is not.

13 posted on 01/30/2023 10:24:04 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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