Vandal Is Shot

When law enforcement abdicates their responsibility to protect people, their property, public buildings, and even monuments, some citizens may feel the need to guard what the authorities have given up on keeping safe. Folks believe with some justification that their tax dollars have paid for courthouses (like the one vandals set fire to in my hometown of Nashville, Tennessee) and precinct houses (like the one the mob is occupying in Seattle), and certainly people feel the need to protect their stores and themselves. Somewhere along the line, it is apparent Democrat politicians have ordered the cops to stand down, and not protect what they formerly were charged with protecting. Well, some patriots, maybe a bit misguided, think they need to step into the breach. One of these folks was attacked by the mob in New Mexico, hit by a skateboard, chased, and tackled, and he felt the need to open fire to save his own life. Maybe, he should not have been out protecting some old statues that the Democrat politicians that dominate that state were giving up to the mob, but he was there. He thought preventing the vandals from destroying public property was necessary when Leftist politicians give up on their duty to vouchsafe their communities. I guess everyone was a bit wrong here, mostly the government officials who were ready to cede territory to violent rioters. If they had followed through on their oath to protect and deployed the police to do so, no vigilantes would have been present trying to save the physical manifestations of America's heritage and it is likely no one would have been shot.