[Clint Williams]

Second, it provides that no one can be "deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law."

I dunno. There are FReepers who express the belief that the right to revenge supersedes the law, constitution and the 6th commandment.

[RetiredNavy]

“I dunno. There are FReepers who express the belief that the right to revenge supersedes the law, constitution and the 6th commandment.”

Where the hell did that come from?

[archy]

Second, it provides that no one can be "deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law." I dunno. There are FReepers who express the belief that the right to revenge supersedes the law, constitution and the 6th commandment.

Just as criminals take the option to disregard the law, so too may their victims or potential victims exercise that same choice.

And, until arrested, charged, tried and found guilty, remain legally innocent of any crime until conviction- under the constitution. It may be that one or all of the members of a jury may see that the lay might not apply in those cases where an otherwise law-abiding citizen "takes the law into his own hands." That is sometimes necessary when the law has been abandoned in the gutter by its enforcers and guardians, who then leave the rest of us to fend for ourselves.

The alternative, of course would be for dimunition of constitutional protections to be met with an equal dilution of governmental authorization: eliminate a First Amendent protection for citizens, or that of the Second, or the Sixth that you mentioned, for example, and an equal elimination of all governmental positions under Article I, or Article II, or Article VI, would also be eliminated.

And of course, when we lose our protections from government, so too do the governmental functionaries forfeit their own.