ElijahRyne:
Scars do not fade. Progress to a better world cannot happen by sitting by idly. It requires the effort of everyone. Revolution is messy, and the last resort. To use a weapon not to protect yourself and/or others is no more than assault or murder. Etc.
let me attack this a different way. Do you know how the FBI broke the stranglehold that organized crime had? I talking the *original* FBI, not the later educated gentleman's, you need a college degree FBI that Hoover later put togewther to modernize it. The *original*. World War Two commandos were recruited and hired, and trained. These were the very men that had the testicular fortitude to take Omaha, establish a beachhead, then fight their way across europe, inch by inch, into Berlin itself. Most of them died, and of those that lived? They either went insane or were... these were very dangerous men, to say the least. To call them cold blooded killers, was an understatement.
This, was who was recruited after the war, to hunt down guys like DIllinger. The local police couldn't handle men like this when they located them. Even the state police couldn;t handle them. AT this time? The FBI was less concerned with rights, PR, press, nothing. Results were simple. Capture or kill, the most wanted fugitives. Period. They were shooting their way out of jam ups with the FBI itself, for christ's sake. These men were brought in, and essentially given a hunting license. Dead or alive, and dead was poreferabl;e they had already killed so many police it wasn't even funny.
see, this is where semantics, word games come into play.
"well, see... that was war. That doesn't count, because..."
word game. A cold blooded killer, is a cold blooded killer.
"wellllll. police are different, see, there's this thing called---"
word game. A cold blooded premeditated murderer, is a cold blooded premeditated murderer.
those men set out, to *kill* men like DIllinger. And they did. They posed over the bodies, like you put your foot on a big game animal. The public? *cheered*
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now. back to the vigilante. your objection, is a word game. In the zip code I sit in now typing this, we had the opioid epidemic, they called it. Euphemism for a fentanyl laced heroin death every *day* on average, throughout the immediate area. On the scanner, if a day went by without a death? The next day would show *three*. In some areas, the heroin was into middle schools.
I have *zero* philosophical objection, to a person going out. If the person sells you heroin? Guilty. Kill them, and walk away you did a public service. My *house* been robbed while I was at work, I lost track of how many times I lost my sh!t. Police? I quit calling them. Pointless. They stop, look around. "probably addicts" (yeah, I know that). they take no fingerprints, they drive off. There's no manpower to CSI every smash and grab, its impossible. The addicts? are winning. So yeah. my view on all this, is a little "harsh" to people.
the more addicts die? The happier most rednecks around here, are.
if someone *would* start serial killing heroin dealers? More power to 'em.
I mean, I won't go there? But... I didn't see anything.
"Did you see a description of who ran out of the alley?"
"Oh, It was dark. No, sorry."
see, I know what the issue is. you must not have had your door kicked in and lost all your sh!t about a dozen times. Your attitude? Changes over time with that, trust me. Young people ODing and dropping like flies? Yeah. The parents, families, friends... their attitudes changed, too.
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from a writers perspective, I can channel this when I write a vigilante character. My college professor, giving me this long winded classroom lecture, did not live in the trenches like I did. I risked getting *shot* delivering pizza after dark, to pay for college. From the vigilante writer's perspective... violence is never the answer? There's just nothing we can do? ten year olds are ODing on heroin, in the bathroom at school. Nothing can be done? Riiiight.
imagine you're a parent, and your own ten year old was raped by a pedophile. The police, "had to" kill the suspect, he resisted arrest.
you gonna ask too many questions? I wouldn't. Send the cop that tossed that ankle piece down and greased the degenerate a nice present.
for dealing with such situations?
violence, is the gold standard.
