You’re avoiding my most basic of points. Vigilantes cannot be trusted to deliver justice. History is replete with examples of vigilantes acting on accusations alone and killing innocent people.
The most galling part of your post is attempting to justify vigilantism by comparing vigilantes to the founding fathers. These same founding fathers created an elaborate system to determine guilt and protect the innocent. Surely you don’t expect us to believe that the same people who penned and affirmed that no person should be denied due process would have supported this kind of behavior. You obviously didn’t think this one through. If you’re correct, then they must have been kidding when the the Bill of Rights was ratified.
Yep, you can’t ALWAYS agree that vigilantes can be trusted but I think they are more to be trusted than people who don’t live in the area.
Where I used to live, it was somewhat remote. Druggies like to make meth in our area. Last I heard, young man and young lady were making meth in a country house (piece of crap) and were caught by county LEO. They arrested him and she continued to deal out of the house. I heard the house burned down (old piece of crap country house that probably should have been abandoned).
Rumor was the neighbors burnt them out. Truth probably was they burnt themselves out (meth is highly flammable). But no one cared. If the neighbors burnt them out, good for them!!
That’s vigilanteism.
You’re a city boy - you think of vigilanteism as the gang culture. Not here, it’s good and decent men protecting their families. Same way in Mexico and I STILL applaud them for protecting their families.