Joseph,
Yet Halacha l’maaisa today is that we now here in America are deputized to be a Pinchos in our times. Check the local copy of your Shulchan Aruch. The very same S”A that tells us that, today, we are to (physically if necessary) punish wayward Yidden who violate בין אדם למקום.
How about we “check” our living and breathing rabbeim before going off and petching people? They know the Shulchan Aruch a lot better than us, and that is the proper way for a Jew to obtain guidance.