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I agree with you they went too far. But maybe (and I am NOT excusing the behavior) if the criminals will start thinking twice. Is the police not patrolling? You get areas where even law enforcement won't go. These areas need severe help. I agree that stricter sentencing would help. but you have to get the big guys out of the way.

Fortunately this kind of thing doesn't happen in the US. I cannot imagine that anyone would think that killing someone is a correct punishment for being robbed. Money and things can be replaced, but not a life.

Honestly, I can see people doing this because I live in a neighborhood were the gangs have tired to take over everything at one time, and we had to get law enforcement into our neighborhood everyday. It was horrible. For a long time, we thought that we were going to have to take matters into our own hands. Some people have no idea what it is like to have to live like that.

First, we have to remember that this took place in Pakistan; not, the US , Canada, UK, etc. Laws and culture are vastly different and so is the level of police protection. In many countries like this, the police are either afraid to confront and arrest criminals; or they are in collusion with them and actively protect them. If they are arrested they pay a few bribes and either are allowed to escape or are actually acquited and then go after the people who turned them in or testified against them murdering them and/or their families. Second, "in the city where everyday hundreds of people are mugged and at times are killed at the hands of armed robbers." These robbers WERE armed and could be expected to kill others if they had not already killed people. The citizens who apprehended and executed them were in danger at the time they were apprehending them and they are lucky they were not hurt or killed themselves. The question now is whether other thieves will be more cautious in committing their crimes OR if they will seek to PUNISH these citizens for interfering. When you push people too far, they will overreact and become violent. If the government will not protect it's citizens the citizens WILL start protecting themselves adn since citizens do not have access to thier own courts and prisons, the only way they can eliminate these threats is permanent elimination.

I actually kinda like this story. A clear message has been sent for the benefit of anyone who would try something similar in this neighborhood, and they have to ask themselves if committing the crime is worth the price they would pay if they get caught. If the law can't handle the crime, then it is up to the people to defend themselves. I wonder, did they have marshmallows at their little block party?

wow thats a hard one, and i agree with you, no one deserves that i guess this is the perfect time to say that violence breeds violence i guess

Redyellowblackdog do you remember the man down in Texas who shot the robbers who broke into his neighbor house. Remember how people complain that this guy to the law into his hands, and only the court should have the right to pass such judgment. If I remember Jesse Jackson even came down to the neighborhood and demanded an appolgy from the hero. I wonder what would have happen if the guy from Texas had done what the people from Karachi did to their two robbers. Just to be honest without this story I would not that there was a Karachi.

Vigilante justice always tends to go too far and this is no exception. I can however understand their frustration. I remember a case many years ago in Africa I think where a group of women cornered a man that had raped another woman and forced him to castrate himself with a sharp knife they had brought with them. When questioned by Police they stated that they had no faith in the man being piunished so took matters into their own hands. (And literally put them in HIS own hands too it seems!) People just reach breaking point and this is almost always a last resort. The story regarding the old woman that held an intruder at gunpoint and made him call the Police to come and get him? Now THAT is a far more suitable measure for a citizen to take. Reducing themselves to the level these people did in the article you provided makes them no better than the criminals.

It appears Pakistani's solutions to crimes are much more permanent than those of neighborhood watches in the USA. Hopefully criminals over there will get the message loud and clear crime doesn't pay and reform their ways. There are better solutions to crime problems, but if they police are taking payoffs to leave the criminals alone, the crime victims will eventually get fed up and take matters into their own hands.

hi redyellowblack dog wellyes let the police take care of criminals, neigborhoods should not be doing that, how brutal and I doubt this was anywhere close to the US.we do not let neighborhoods take the law into their own hands here. we have police to take care of crimes and we turn to them or we are no better than the criminals otherwise.

Wow, that's one rough neighborhood! At least we shoot you before feeding you to the gators down here.