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Old 06-25-2008, 04:51 PM
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Originally Posted by micfranklin View Post
Let me give an example:

Earlier this month in Baltimore, some guy tried to rob a store with the owner of the store in it, and he held the owner at knifepoint. When the owner got a chance he pulled a gun on the robber and shot him but didn't kill him, and the thing is that same guy has reportedly been robbing other places in that area for some time.

And in big cities sometimes people get robbed and killed in their own homes and the criminal doesn't get caught right away, sometimes in a week, 2 weeks, a month, maybe they might not get caught at all. Especially in this city where even cameras aren't enough, someone else needs to step up when the police aren't gonna get there in time.
So, I can assume you are pro-vigilantism, then?

I tend to be wary of these sorts of arguments, because there's a lot of heroic fantasization of improbable and idealized situations.
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