Where’s the Outrage? Why Vigilantes Weren’t All Bad
Where is the outrage for Ariel Castro? A man that abducted women and kept them as prisoners in his basement for more than a decade all the while forcibly aborting the babies he was making.
Where is the outrage for all of these school and spree shooters? Adam Lanza, James Holmes, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold all of which killed people indiscriminately and for no reason. Instead, of being outraged at the perpetrators of these crimes we choose to blame guns and those who make them. We blame society, drugs and rap music for the state of their souls when we should really just be blaming them.
So in the end vigilantes were not always so bad. They symbolized the last vestiges of moral outrage within America’s communities. Now we are left with psych evaluations and excuses for why people like Kermit Gosnell cannot be put to death. Gosnell is escaping the death penalty because his age will not allow him to wait on an execution.
While I don’t think anyone should enact their own justice on any of these men it is fair to mention that they are getting the benefits of a spineless America in which we would rather have civility instead of justice.
Image: John Heith lynched by a mob in Tombstone, Arizona on Feb. 22, 1884; source: U.S. Library of Congress; LOT 8834; REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-109782; public domain
