“...accept that law enforcement on a whole scale is not generally a friend anymore...”
They stopped being “a friend” the day they stopped calling themselves “Peace Officers” and became “Law ENFORCEMENT!!!!!!!!! (By Golly!) Officers” and dressing in black paramilitary BDUs, combat boots, wearing masks to obscure their faces, and carrying automatic weapons as a matter of course.
I think we are all keenly aware of just what they are capable of under the guise of “just following orders”. After Waco and Ruby Ridge, I will NEVER see them as friends again. There are good ones, to be sure, who “get it” - I know quite a few - and I hope to God above that IF “the Day” ever comes, they will stand with the Citizenry and do the right thing.
As for the car-chase/shooting would-be hero: He UNDERSTANDS that Citizens have responsibilities and seems to have instinctively acted on it, but he should also should have understood that THIS society no longer protects nor values it’s Citizens. Instead, it now glorifies and protects the thug, the gangsta, the pervert, and the violent sociopath. THEY have more worth than Citizens do; indeed, capitalist Citizens and their bourgeois middle class society MADE them that way, after all, dontcha’ know...
On the other hand, if WE as Citizens do nothing, THEY win...and we watch everything that we and our families and ancestors fought, bled and died for simply fade away...
Not on my watch.
My biggest concern is that he COULD have hit innocent folks with his fire, however good a shot he deems himself to be. A richochette, a kid in the way, etc., etc., you know the drill...Front page news - “crazed gun-toting right-wing vigilante kills child!”
This is the world we live in, folks...sad, sick, and pathetic.
Agree with Vader’s comment - valiant intent, poor judgement...too bad the purse snatch VICTIM wasn’t carrying. She’s the one who REALLY needs to worry now, especially if the Perp has her address and keys and she has family at home.