(08-28-2020, 09:56 AM)Lucky2Last Wrote: Yes. Not just defending themselves, but seeing a need to defend others. When I watch a mob descend Rand Paul, it infuriates me. I don't like politicians as a general rule, but they should be able to cross the street without people attacking them. These mob tactics have to stop. People are becoming fed up with it. Unless the moderates stop straddling the fence and reject this outright, there are going to be more clashes like Rittenhouse, where people who wouldn't normally be there, go to protect others. Force will escalate.

It's one thing to defend yourself and your family, but to try and defend people you don't know or property that isn't yours? That is called vigilantism and it only makes things worse. No one appointed people "Joe Schmo" to come into a city with a gun and guard property that wasn't his. That is the job of the cops. Whether or not they are doing that job, is of no concern to us. That is to be evaluated by their bosses and no one else. Vigilantism only provokes. There is enough blame to go around on both sides. The left needs to stop their radicals from looting and burning and the right needs to stop their radicals from "patrolling" city streets with semi automatic weapons, because they wanna puff out their chest and play G.I. Joe.

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