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
barely walk, who has never beeng convicted of a violent crimee al and is being treated like a child by some disembodiede voice fromsome fro some fascist. that s that s what you just saw. now, the judge in this case is called emilio velasquez. now, who s if he s a judge, he doesn t have a law degree.qu. he s not a lawyer. and yet he s a judge.. he s he s an elected politician. n e and he is allowing the prosecutioven n of an amerio citizen who exercised his rights under arizona lawn and his most basic human right,n which is if someone comes onto your property and you feel threatened by it, you have a a right to defend yourselfde by force, period.fe nd but the last velasquez doe, not acknowledge that right. ai and so he set the bail for this maderly man whose wife is living alone in their home right near the border at a a million dollars. s of so news of this case obviously traveled paststly to arizona and people were justa outraged by whatt is being done to this man. so people t