The vigilantes are the new cool kids on the block! Kyle Rittenhouse, a mentally challenged policeman wannabe, self-appointed militiaman and gun nut, is acquitted of all charges after killing two and wounding another at a violent protest that would otherwise have ended in property damage but no fatalities. His claim of self-defense in an open carry state with a loosely interpreted castle doctrine was too difficult to disprove.
A Texas law deputizes private citizens and promises them financial gain for investigating and suing patients or providers of abortions performed after 6 weeks, which is close to the time that most women even know they are pregnant.
Three armed men pursue an unarmed black jogger in trucks and confront him in South Georgia, ultimately killing him. The case is being tried now.
People armed with semi-automatic and automatic weapons assemble outside of state houses and at meetings throughout the COVID pandemic, protesting any restrictions on their lives and threatening governors, legislators, school board members and other public officials.
Yes, vigilantism is alive and well in the USA! If you were wondering what in the world Americans would do with the sea of guns that has inundated our country, here is one answer. Another answer is that they would turn ordinary disagreements or domestic disputes or road rage into shooting fatalities. And yet another is that suicides by gun would climb ever higher. But I digress. Back to our proud vigilantes.
There is nothing American men love more than to strut around with a cool gun in their hands. And they often add a camo outfit as a great accessory, along with sunglasses and an ammo belt or two. After all, the more you can pretend to be a Navy SEAL, the manlier it makes you feel.
The nation is going to hell in a handbasket, so we need all the good guys with guns we can get, right? Even though we have endowed the police with SWAT teams galore and wet dream-worthy piles of military equipment, they clearly need the help of testosterone-addled, social-media-brainwashed wingnuts with AR-15s and Glocks.
God Bless our brave patriots! With all those lefty judges, socialist legislators, election-stealers, Marxist professors and looters (i.e. people of color), the only hope we have is to let loose a big wave of armed vigilantes to keep America safe (and white and virginal and heterosexual and segregated).
Our favorite American myth is the Wild West, so it is only fitting that we are regressing back to the days of vigilante justice and gun-toting machismo. But the eager vigilantes fearing the decline of the American Empire might be surprised to discover that they are actually at the very core of that decline and accelerating it with each act of armed protest or insurrection.
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