Why It's Time to Take Troubleshooting Into Your Own Hands

1. What does taking matters into your own hands mean?
2. When you take the law into your own hands?
3. Do it with your own hands?
4. Who takes the law into their own hands?
5. What is it called when a group of people take the law into their own hands?

What does taking matters into your own hands mean?

: to do something oneself instead of waiting for other people to do something.

When you take the law into your own hands?

to do something illegal and often violent in order to punish someone because you know the law will not punish that person: One day, after years of violent abuse from her husband, she took the law into her own hands.

Do it with your own hands?

used to say that you have made something yourself: "Where did you get this cake?" "I made it with my own fair hands."

Who takes the law into their own hands?

If someone takes the law into their own hands, they punish someone or do something to put a situation right, instead of waiting for the police or the legal system to take action.

What is it called when a group of people take the law into their own hands?

If you're a vigilante, you might take the law into your own hands by trying to catch or punish someone in your own way. If you wrestle jaywalkers down to the ground, you might be called a vigilante.