"Vigilantism is basically a statement saying society has failed to such an egregious extent that I have to take the law into my own hands... In a failed state, I can understand it, but I don't think we're anywhere near that."

The system has failed your average American, and with all due respect, at some point after success and becoming a millionaire, you find yourself detached from specific problems, and you definitely are, Destiny. But when people's needs are not met or they exist in a system that acts against their best interests, no amount of philosophy or discussion of ethics is relevant when a person's life and livelihood are so easily dismantled by a system that favors the rich and the wealthy.

It's the world Vegan Gains wants.

Well, that's actually kinda of the point. It's not a failed state. It's working just as it planned by those who run these systems because it's approaching becoming a captured, corporate state. Functional, not failed. Functional for the wrong people.

Well if both parties are bought and sold by the healthcare lobbies than.....?

You have a really idealistic view of society. One CEO got shot (which was wrong) and they marched him to the courthouse like he was a cartel member. They had dozens of agents and officers behind him. There's a disconnect between the protections the higher ups get offered from violence and what the rest of us at ground level are being forced to deal with on a regular basis. When violence happens to a CEO or a politician or an officer or so on, that's treated differently than when violence happens to any regular Joe in the street. Even the charges they get given are higher than if you or I suffered an attack. If that's the system working correctly, how can you expect people NOT to take things into their own hands? I don't know what about the current system appears "right" or "stable" to you but things have been batshit for a while and we keep heading further and further down that road. The fact of the matter is you have the money to be safe from the bullshit the rest of us deal with. - You can afford a ferocious lawyer if someone harms you or your family. - You can advertise your injustice to your audience to draw attention to it. - You can move your family from a dangerous place to a safe place if you experience violence. Of course you think the system works. You're immune from the true consequences of it.

many would argue we are in a failed state

Laws are threats made by the dominant socioeconomic-ethnic group in a given nation. It's just the promise of violence that's enacted and the police are basically an occupying army. Y'know what I mean?

Look at the material conditions of the people look at the disparity between the classes like CEOs and labor. Look at the harm of the ruling class to the rest for their own profit and gain. Like ceos of healthcare and the thousands they kill for greed.

Yes. That’s exactly what it means. And that is exactly where we are.

In the eye of a Communist/Socialist every Capitalist State is a failed State.