http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/03\/16\/charlie-blackmore-marine-veteran-draws-gun_n_2891176.html?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl8%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D284796<\/a> .<\/p>\nHuffPost, not exactly what you\u2019d call a pro-gun entity, gives him props.\u00a0 Cool so far.<\/p>\n
Read all the way to the bottom, to where Huffington Post compares him to other \u201cvigilantes.\u201d In a bizarre twist of journalism, they include a high profile case not yet adjudicated in Florida as an example of \u201cvigilante justice,\u201d along with Jack Ruby and some guy who threw marbles at a traffic control camera.<\/p>\n
Uh\u2026does anyone who writes for HuffPost understand words like \u201cresearch\u201d?\u00a0 Do they understand that \u201cwords mean things\u201d?<\/p>\n
The term \u201cvigilante\u201d comes from \u201cvigilance committees,\u201d folks on the nineteenth-century American frontier who gathered together without benefit of government authority \u2013 in a time and place where there WAS no such thing to speak of \u2013 and became judge, jury, and occasionally executioner of those they felt were wrong-doers.<\/p>\n
In the instant case, we have a man who fought for his country and carried a pistol to protect himself, his loved ones, and others within what the law would call \u201cthe mantle of his protection.\u201d He made, essentially, an absolutely appropriate citizen\u2019s arrest, and kept a helpless woman from being beaten to death.<\/p>\n
\u201cVigilante,\u201d my ass.<\/p>\n
The words you were groping for, HuffPost, were \u201cGood Samaritan.\u201d Or, if that\u2019s too many syllables for your current generation of reporters and editors, maybe just\u2026\u201dHero.\u201d<\/p>\n
But, hey, I\u2019m an old dinosaur who thinks in the Old Ways.<\/p>\n
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What do you, reading this, think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
So, this hefty mammal is stomping the crap out of a woman he once claimed to love, and a passerby who has fought for his country stops to help.\u00a0 The Creature From the Testosterone Lagoon decides he\u2019ll stomp him into jelly, too.\u00a0 Ordinary size military vet with concealed carry permit from Wisconsin basically says, \u201cUh, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2224","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}