[KittenClaws]

I think the question is this: At what point is the threshold reached at which the rage engendered by these barbaric koranimals, battering at the ramparts of civilization, overcomes the legal risks of vigilantism ?

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When their attacks are battering the ramparts within this country, our reply will not be vigilantism, but patriotism.

I am no vigilante. But I will not stand down to a direct attack.

[tomkat]

When their attacks are battering the ramparts within this country

When PC stupidity or blatant self-interest effectively deprives citizens of the protection they've already paid for;
when the Constitution is being shredded and the lives and property and ideals of those millions who've worked to uphold it all these years are being callously put at risk;
then there may very well come a point at which 'vigilantism' and patriotism will become synonymous.

We're not talking Charley Bronson movies here, or hysterical lib mouth-foaming misappropriation of the language, but an historically defined term.
I have in mind groups of otherwise law-abiding citizens organizing to protect themselves in the face of the indifference and/or incompetence of established authority/s.
Because when push comes to jihad, the only difference between self-defense and 'vigilantism' is a semantic variable dependent on the address of your particular gulag.

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Definition of vigilante

noun

• a member of a self-appointed group of citizens who undertake law enforcement in their community without legal authority, typically because the legal agencies are thought to be inadequate.

  Oxford Dictionaries

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  vig·i·lan·te

  noun \ˌvi-jə-ˈlan-tē\
  Definition of VIGILANTE

  : a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate); broadly : a self-appointed doer of justice

  — vig·i·lan·tism \-ˈlan-ˌti-zəm\ noun

  Merriam-Webster