Yeah .. me too.  I’m sick to death of hearing this “they took the law into their own hands” nonsense.  Most recently we heard this phrase applied to the father of a five-year-old girl in Shiner, Texas.   The father heard his daughter screaming from behind a barn.  He ran to the screams and found a man sexually molesting her.  He pulled the man off his daughter and literally – though he did not intend to – beat the man literally to death.  He called 911 and pleaded for them to hurry when he realized the child molester was dying.  The grand jury has declined to charge the father of the child with any crime.  Predictably, we have some people --- on the left, naturally --- crying that this man “took the law into his own hands.”

Well here’s my great frustration with this nonsense line.  I’ve never heard another commentator say this – but guess what?  The law IS in our hands.  It was the people who established the law – the rule of law – in the first place through the adoption of our Constitution.  How are the laws made?  Through a legislative process, that’s how.  And how are the legislators chosen?  By US.  Now however you cut it, that ultimately puts the law into our own hands.  In some states – Georgia is one of them – in any criminal trial both the facts AND the law are to be determined by the jury.  Judges and prosecutors absolutely hate this, and if they find that you’re aware of that provision in the Georgia Constitution they will make sure that you are somehow kept off the jury. 

So let’s stop this nonsense about the law not being in our hands.  Of course it is.  If not your hands, whose hands would you chose?