2007-10-28 05:12:07 · 13 answers · asked by Itly 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
No - their heated unfounded emotional response will just as likely harm the wrong person. Let the justice system work!
2007-10-28 05:15:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
This is a very open question. It is far too general for a definitive answer. In some cases, people do take law into their own hands, such as filing civil suits, making citizen's arrests and the like. The law is, in the United States, "of the people, for the people, by the people". This means basically that our laws are made and enacted by our elected representatives. Laws are enforced by police and the courts. It would not be beneficial to the common welfare of a society for individuals to take the law into their own hands in the sense that they kill others or harm others for what they perceive to be offenses. That would be vigilanty justice which is not always fair and balanced.
2007-10-28 05:25:27 · answer #2 · answered by fangtaiyang 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What justice system? The guy broke my window to get into my house in order to steal my tools. He stashed them in my backyard for later retrieval, was seen by a neighbor, so he broke into my other (empty) house, where he had been sleeping, unbeknownced to me, to retrieve the stuff he'd stashed there. Later that day he was arrested for public intoxication. I went to the cops, who said they couldn't do anything because THEY had not actually seen him do anything to me. I filed a report anyway. 30 days later, when he was getting out of jail, I went to the DA's office about my report. The woman sat there and looked at me and asked, "Are you just mad because he's getting out of jail?" And then there was the woman who abandoned my other house to her own fleas and cockroaches, owing 5 months back rent, then "authorized" 3 men I'd never seen before to move into my house, rent free. The cops were going to take their note of authorization and let them stay there. I made them run the men off. Those men have broken into that house 3 times since then, and stolen stuff, and I've finally been able to get extra police patrols for 30 days. Do you really think they're really watching the place? This is a small town, population 20,000.
2007-10-28 05:31:14 · answer #3 · answered by Little Lulu 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
OK... I now pronounce you under arrest! For what you ask? National security ! I don't have to tell you ,or let you have a lawyer ,or bail, or even let you go if you do manage to prove you're innocent..and you get to spend the rest of your life in a secret prison! That's how the current admin. sees it! Does that put things in perspective for ya?
2007-10-28 05:24:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe in taking hold of your civil rights, especially when those called to uphold the law do not do so morally and lawfully
2007-10-28 08:23:31 · answer #5 · answered by TURANDOT 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it depends, Is someone threatening your immediate saftey, and going to the police would make it so you would be dead by the time they got there. If that is the case, do what ever you have to do to save yourself. If that is not the case, go through the legal channels provided.
2007-11-01 04:06:19 · answer #6 · answered by squishy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. However, it is the right of the people to overturn unjust laws, or to vote for candidates who will overturn unjust laws.
2007-10-28 05:18:45 · answer #7 · answered by TheOnlyBeldin 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If that happens, then it is dog eat dog, there would be NO law and order.
2007-10-28 05:21:30 · answer #8 · answered by WC 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Don't people already do that and not pay for it?
My answer is NO. And prisons should be safe for prisoner NO MATTER what they did.
2007-10-28 05:15:31 · answer #9 · answered by Shawn 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Nope, because then you have total anarchy, like you have in the Middle East
2007-10-28 05:14:37 · answer #10 · answered by robert43041 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋