There is a cliched line in too many movies to remember where the protagonist proclaims,” he never killed anyone who didn’t deserve killing,” or something to that effect. And despite all the socially sensitive rhetoric to the contrary a good many of us have contemplated, however briefly, those we wouldn’t mind seeing removed from the face of the Earth. They may be the distant evil, the Osama Bin Laden’s or the molester and killer of juveniles they find in some distant state. Or they may be something we know, someone we know only too well. But there have been times when we think the world would be a better place without these people sucking up our precious oxygen.
According to an article in the USA Today, as well as dozens of other publications, the FBI has reported justifiable homicides have been on the increase over the past couple of years. The article reported that 391 killings at the hands of the police were proved justifiable. The common citizenry is lagging behind, having racked up a mere 254 justifiable homicides during the past year. That is close to one a day.
Certain law enforcement analysts are claiming this increase in justifiable homicides is a result of changing attitudes on the streets. Police feel more threatened, more overwhelmed by dangerous criminals with advanced firepower, so they are more prone to put them down, rather than risk death and injury trying to arrest them. As for the public, the article says that citizens are taking greater responsibility for their own defense.
I would think to some degree this is a modern day version of frontier justice. Or, as the old blues song goes, “I would rather be judged by twelve than carried by six.” I realize gun ownership is a hot button issues. It was more so a few years back. There are pros and cons and the beat goes on as it does with any issues deemed controversial. Passions build on both sides.
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More to the point, people with guns can screw up and in a drunken rage kill their neighbors or, even worse, their loved ones. At the same time an armed citizenry gives criminals pause. Let’s face it, until the police come rescue you from a home invasion, the police being as understaffed as they are, all that could be left of you and your family is another gnarly story for the six o’clock news. Besides, neighbors and fellow citizens love it when someone protects himself by shooting down the bad guys.
We have instant hero grocery store clerks. We read stores of women who were would-be rape victims but left their would-be rapists lying dead on the sidewalk. I recall a story in Santa Monica, where the poor store owner was robbed time and again, and each time he shot it out and often killed the robbers. He was famous, sure, but he was like the fastest gun in the West. Idiot armed robbers trying to make their reputations in whatever club they belonged just had to try him. The store owner finally gave up in disgust and sold the business.
I think it is fair to say that part of justifiable homicide is the fact that there is little doubt someone is trying to harm you. If someone is trying to harm you and is killed it means they are killed in the middle of the crime. They are not killed later that afternoon or the following Thursday. Frontier justice is dealt out at the existential moment of the crime. So with the economy as bad as it is, a trials being so costly, one could argue shooting down violent criminals is saving cities a lot of money. It may be a specious argument, but I’m sure I’m not the first one to make it.
So in the coming year, with people really upset about the economy, I mean really pissed off, I suppose we will be seeing more justifiable homicides. After the country was raped by its politicians and bankers, I would dare say the common criminal doesn’t stand a prayer.
