A brief review of history, will reveal that in times and places when law enforcement and courts are non-existent or functioning poorly, dangerous neighbors are dealt with directly by good people. If yours isn’t a “safe” community and you can’t depend on the Sheriff and courts to enforce contracts and criminal law, you have three choices: 1) flee to another locale that might be “safer,” 2) passively accept the danger around you and hope you aren’t targeted, or 3) “deal with” the criminal element yourself.
Most of the discussion at PP.com focuses Options 1 and 2, as is appropriate in a mostly civilized society. But if the coming Collapse does serious enough damage to this civilized society, Option 3 will be chosen by more and more people (especially if fleeing is not possible/practical and waiting to be victimized is “unacceptable”).
In a situation in which there is no rule of law, neighbors like you were describing (those with well-developed criminal resumes and appearances) could very well be in more danger from the good citizens than the good citizens are in from them. What’s to stop the criminal element from robbing, thieving, raping and killing? How about an armed, forceful response from the good citizens? In your example, what is the drug-using, registered sex offender who is also currently victimizing people in the area going to do if he gets visited by 12 heavily armed neighbors who arrive at his ramshackle tinyhouse and “encourage” him to leave and never come back?
Hopefully, it won’t come to that where we live, but it’s a dark possibility we would be wise to thoughtfully consider and prepare for. Millions of people in various places in the world already live like this TODAY (eg. Mexico, South Africa). We’d be fools to cover our eyes, whistle past the graveyard and conclude, “It can’t happen here.”
”Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.”
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