which all other rights depend. if you can t defend yourself, te can t defend your family and your property, you don t have any rights at all. you re a l.. by definition. so you may be wondering in this moment of creeping authoritarianism, how is the right to self defense doing in our country? ou we can give some kind of long lecture, but instead, how about some examples? consider two shootings that took place at gas stations in the past year in the united states . the first shooting occurred around two p 2:0m.m on october a the state of missouri, a twentyo three year old felon called javon taylor with a long criminal record convictiontaylor armed robbery, for example, began threatening a female clerk, apparently becausn es st the gas station didn t carry the kind of cigars that he wanted. that s when an off firemanat sw called anthony santae, who was inside, decidehed to step in.or. he told javon taylor to leave ty the storloe. response to that, taylor began threatening h
so you can you can defeat them in an argument simply by tryingm to trying to get them to state their premise. they can t even statr e their premise. i mean, this is caleb hemerds cn does believe that 16 year olds can consent to having bodyut l parts removed, but he can t say that out loud because he knows how crazy it sounds. and so instead, he just fall. silent. you look at someon e like john clements, looks like sort of a normal person. maybe he has kids. he s in favor of cutting the off girls. i mean, how could i mean, how could anybody get to a place where that s okay? i think, you know, i can t ct see inside their minds, bu stn i i have to imagine most of these people know at some level thatgu it s wrong. but they re just ideologically beholden to it. and again, is why they don t it. even attempt to defend ithy and said instead, we get this a credentialism thing going on as if i need credentials to know that abusing children is wrong. will is a harvard trained physician. i