No, do you have first hand experience with deep rural areas? If those men hadn't been agents of the state they would have found another way to do those or simil

No, do you have first hand experience with deep rural areas? If those men hadn't been agents of the state they would have found another way to do those or similar things, because that is what they wanted to do and they sought out the power that would allow them to do it. I do support abolishing the police and all forms of carceral justice, for what it's worth. Possibly the state too, sure, eventually. But I do not accept, right now that diminishing all forms of the state in favor of elevating personal and corporate power is a reasonable path.