If the cops performed vigilante justice on Dorner, so what? He had it coming.

[DaveJ]

219. A thought that's been congealing over time in my brain.

A lot of pleas for civility are coming from those with no experience in the field of catching murderers.

I do not hear anyone personally volunteering to catch these killers. Is anyone volunteering to walk into a situation like that? I no not think it is appropriate to expect, or employ, others to do so. And, if an enemy has a proven ability to escape, there might not have been time to set up the proper method of catching them with non lethal techniques. That's what people expect, but it might be easier said than done. If there were a possibility that a killer would escape and kill more innocent people, including the police, there's less choice in such a situation.

Now there's the issue of whether that makes me liberal/progressive not. I don't believe in the death penalty. Once you have captured someone, I am not going to expect others to kill them. But when one is in a life or death situation I can see how killing can save the lives of innocent people.