No. You keep making excuses vigilantism.
I keep telling you that it is now a fact of life. I don’t like it. But here we are. You keep acting as though that is an attempt at justifying it. It is not. It is acknowledging a distasteful reality. Can’t you get your head around that?
If everyone were starving, cannibalism would be a fact of life, too.
I wish the police were not defunded, and that the courts had discretion or used the discretion that they have more effectively, so that the ordinary people who follow the rules could feel safe following them. Then there would be no vigilantes beating people to death on Staten Island. They’d only do it in Brooklyn and the South Bronx, and then just for fun, not as vigilantes, per se. As it is, this is probably going to spread like wildfire. Pay attention to Broad Channel, the second most conservative area in NYC. Then Flatlands, and then it’ll be Charles Bronson’s NYC.