One part of my "coming of age" politically as a high school student was the famed "subway vigilante" shooting on a New York City subway train in December 1984. The entire city of New York was rooting for the guy who carried out that shooting (he shot four thugs who tried to mug him), and I don't know anyone who was happy to see him convicted of various weapons offenses even though he was acquitted of attempted murder.
OK — and I don’t defend vigilantism at all. Killing to defend property is never justified in my opinion. Killing is only justified in defense of life. I am one of the few people on FR who thinks Joe Horn should be in jail for manslaughter.
My only point in this thread is to make it clear to people that Tiller is not someone who was doing something we merely considered wrong — he was doing something illegal.