About the Delegation of Powers
From Larry Correia:
“People in the modern world tend to forget that the law doesn’t exist to protect citizens from criminals. It is to protect criminals from us. That force is delegated to the state so we can have law. When the state fails to keep the peace, then the people will do it themselves, and that tends to get real messy, which is why sane societies try to avoid it.
Mexican gang bangers don’t want this chaotic shit in their neighborhoods anymore than anyone else. That’s how bad democrats suck at governing that even the criminals are tired or their bullshit.”
And that would be a pretty good assessment.
There goes Larry, talking sense again.
He's 100% right, though, as usual. The law is a shield for both sides; it sets the behavioral expectations for society, which protects the peaceable citizen, but it also centralizes and standardizes "justice", which protects people who violate those expectations from vigilante justice.
The rioting mob forgets this at their own peril ... assuming they ever learned it. (Given the current state of public schools, I assume they didn't.)
I wonder if that will get publish in the LA Times. Nah! That's not news, although it just might bleed.
Larry Correia, one of my fav authors. Currently re-reading a series by him. John Ringo is another.