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
record called marquis demps walked into a shell station and became violent. here s a report from the local fox station describing what happened next.d station and go customers who frequent the family owned shell gas station on east mlk in enough gd springdale can t say enough good things. things about 25-year-old about twenty five year old employee ecac nars, they re stunned to hear nas is chargede with first degree murder afterst police say he shotto hear and e forty two year old merch demps outside the store late saturday night. according to court documents, demps came inttho the store and caused a verbal disturbance that turned physical that there wae an distus some type of alten happening inside the store. and that s what starte d everything. demps wavint g a knife atstai the workers. so now. he grabbed a gun, telling him to leave.wo instead, dempsrker begans. trasg the store. that s his father showing us the damaged merchandise and display cases. the credit card machine rippe