To Kill A Mockingbird: Is Violence Ever Justified?

To start with my opinion on ¨Is violence ever justified?¨ My opinion is that it cannot be justified. There is never a time that violence can be justified, even in self defense, or as retaliation, or to try to make changes.
To begin with, people try to justify violence because they think it is the only way to solve their problems. For example, during the lynch mob in To Kill a Mockingbird when Scout, Jem, and Dill ran down to the courthouse where Atticus was guarding the door from where Tom Robinson was sleeping. Mr. Cunningham and the mob came to kill Tom Robinson. Scout said you came to my daddy´s house and gave him something and he did not speak and told the mob, ¨Come on let's get out of here.¨ The mob thought they were justified because