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
prosecutors like i have here inc st. louis. and then what are the people do if there s rampant crime enforce and the police won t enforcend the law and the prosecutors won e prosect prosecute the cri, people have to defend themselves. so then that same government then criminalizes self defense and throws you in jail. t now, you know, it wasn t cheapol to defend ourselves. injury and then to add insult to injury, our bar associationo0 required us to do a hundred hours each of pro bono legal services. 0 hours of so that s two hundre od hours o. our time. that s about a hundred and fifty thousand fine right there. but we can we can handle that. but think about that. poor george allen kelley down in texas. on seventy three year old man d with a million dollar bond forma doing nothing more in defending himself. the whole purpose of all thio ss is to strip our rights away, strip away our god given freedoms and give absolute control to the government, criminalize, criminalize self defense and