Everyman on the Vigilante Trail

Have you ever watched a vigilante movie, one of those primally satisfying flicks in which the ordinary, law-abiding citizen is pushed too far and takes the law into his own hands, and thought, “I wonder if I could pull that off?”

Probably you have — you’re reading a conservative magazine, after all. And maybe, if you’re like me, you’ve even let yourself ponder how exactly you’d manage it . . . where you’d get the necessary weaponry, how you’d keep the police off your scent, how you would protect the people closest to you while you went about dealing out capital-R Retribution . . .