The article earned it’s barf alert by using the word vigilante for someone defending their life during an attack.
I’m a person who goes about their every day life and just happens to have a concealed weapon. I don’t patrol my neighborhood. I don’t own a police scanner. I don’t belong to any organization that fights crime. I’m not a vigilante if I happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and hope to survive it with skills I have learned.
You are not a vigilante because you are rarely at the wrong place at the wrong time. If you need to use your weapon it would be because you were at the right place at the right time and someone else was not and had bad intentions.
In other words, I am sure that most of the students at Virgina Tech were in class; the right place at the right time. The shooter was not.
> The article earned it’s barf alert by using the word vigilante for someone defending their life during an attack.
Ahhh. That makes sense then. I get the same reaction to the word “vigilante” with the patrolling work that I do.
Vigilantes take the law into their own hands. I don’t. You don’t either. It’s an unfair label.