Vigilante Systems of Law Enforcement Can Apply to Guns


Vigilante justice has been approved against abortion in Texas. One of the old rules in politics is when you think of a new idea, don't be surprised if you opposition turns the same idea on you. When six-gun Texas thought they had outsmarted liberal abortion rights advocates by using citizen vigilantes to enforce anti women laws it may never have occurred to them the same technique could be used on they themselves. The Governor of Texas is proposing just that. Conservatives want to carry guns everywhere. Why not a liberal version of vigilante law against those who carry guns?

While of course this has not been put into place yet and it will be complicated, the idea is for ordinary citizens to turn in Texans (and others) who carry their guns into California. Then, California would pay the person reporting the violation a bounty fee and cover all their legal defense. 

There is no end really to the concept of vigilante enforcement. Just as white Klan members hung black men in the city square if someone claimed the black man had looked at a white woman it will be possible for vigilante possies to turn in anyone they choose without regard to the "offenders" rights. If someone wrongly accuses another of law breaking the liar will the protected by the state's legal defense funding. 

It will be like what happened regularly in Iraq and Afghanistan.  If two people disliked each other, one could whisper to the U.S. the person he disliked was harboring enemy soldiers or officials.  The U.S. would destroy the other person's house and kill all the people in it. The Texas law protects liars. There is no reason to believe this will not be used by liberals against conservatives.

The same thing could happen with vaccinations. In states requiring vaccinations, citizens could be empowered to whisper to law enforcement someone they knew was not vaccinated. The person would be arrested even if this were not true. The liar who informed would protect himself by having legal fees paid by a state government.

Abortion prohibition advocates in Texas feel they have won a great victory over abortion rights. It seems inevitable they will see vigilante justice used against them at some time and in some place.

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