The right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, whether God given or as an assertion of constitutional principle makes no sense. It doesn't apply to dead people, the terminally ill, noncitizens, people trapped overseas, terrorists, prisoners, crime victims, or aborted babies. It's debatable whether the right of liberty applies to small children or the insane. No one is free of taxation, regulation, national sacrifice in war, or collision with others that vaporizes liberty. Your freedom ends at my property line, and no one is free in a car, an airplane, or a crowd. Personal pursuit of happiness seems remote if you work for a corporation, a family business, or a government agency. It would be more accurate to say that you have a right to die, obey, and suffer numerous unwanted consequences of cohabiting a complicated world. Fraud, divorce, cancer, rape, paraplegia, and child abuse have ruinous lifetaking impact.
When Jefferson advanced the notion of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, there was historical context, a King and Parliament who were distant from sparsely populated towns and homesteads in American colonies that became accustomed to democracy. Our founding fathers routinely ignored the edicts issued in London, which reached them in fair weather a couple months later. No one would have thought to declare human rights, except that Tory judges and redcoats were dispatched to Boston. Somehow the colonial Declaration of eternal human rights in 1776 evolved into a $7 trillion tyranny of our own making. It's settled custom in the U.S. today that you're guilty until proved innocent if the IRS decides to audit you, or if Democrat conspirators launch a Deep State war of lies and leaks. No one is safe at home, at work, or at school, silenced by intersectionality, gunfire, and idiotic government lockdown. The mortality rate from Covid-19 has fallen below seasonal flu. Young adults and children are immune or suffer mild symptoms, but family lockdown was fatal to elderly with pre-existing conditions and obese people of color. Total "cases" are a fake statistic, inflated with false positives, lies about 100% positivity at Florida labs, asymptomatic hospital admissions for childbirth, and multiple retests for burger flippers. Tens of thousands of drug overdoses, car wreck victims, and heart attacks were listed as Covid-19 "cause of death" because hospitals were paid a bounty every time they intubated a patient, killing them. Half of all virus deaths in New York were mass murder by Andrew Cuomo, sending infectious hospital patients to nursing homes as a political gambit, rather than use thousands of empty Navy ICU beds and Javitz Center ICU beds provided by President Trump. Human rights? Are you joking?
The way I approach rights is simple. Justice is the armed defense of innocent liberty. It has nothing to do with voting or legislation. When seconds count, the police are only minutes away, unless you live in Brooklyn, Seattle, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, or Chicago. Buy a gun, get trained in tactical defense, carry every day, and plan ahead if you have to shoot. Don't hang around and depend on lawyers to rescue you. Scram and get rid of the gun. Toss it in a lake. You can always buy another one. Stockpile ammo, which is becoming hard to find.
There is a political question to address, which Wendy McElroy answered as follows. She is morally opposed to voting, as I am, but said that she would have shot Hitler to stop him from taking office and directing Nazi genocide and conquest. This presumes that we agree with Hegel, that world historical figures and the clash of dialectical ideas shape history, therefore shooting Hitler could have prevented World War II. Killing charismatic individuals usually creates martyrs, like Jesus, Joan of Arc, Gandhi, and MLK. The world is not improved by it. Few have done more harm recently than the idiot savant from Sweden, but it would be an error to shoot Greta, amplifying her mystique. It's too late to kill Al Gore or Bernie Sanders. Neither of them are world historical figures and the crap they plopped in the public square were little turds of derivative, garbled nonsense. We have worse problems than bumbling opportunists like Pelosi, Obama, and AOC.
The fundamental problem is constitutional law. Until and unless Americans stand up as free moral agents, no obligation to God, or Gaia, or whatever government our neighbors vote to continue, there is no hope of social progress. We see ourselves as free in a defacto sense, almost secretly, evading the opinions of others as much as possible, choosing who we love and hope to cherish and defend, which work we want to do for our own satisfaction, how to spend our days so they mean something to us personally. Patriots fight for national security. Cops pit their courage and training against evil. Those are personal choices, no different than ambitious entreprenuers like Steve Jobs and Elon Musk, both of whom did enormous social harm. Brave patriots and good cops do harm by defending the morally indefensible evil of political whims, whether in Afghanistan or Milwaukee.
Crime? Be situationally aware. If possible, run. If not, shoot first, shoot to kill, and keep firing until the threat is ended. You will not succeed without tactical training, 100 hours minimum. The carry weapon of choice is a mid-size 9mm automatic in a gunbelt with a good holster. A normal belt is no good. Ladies have special front carry holsters. Understand where you are and what is downrange. Bullets travel up to a mile, go through doors, windows, sheet rock. Know your weapon. Know your ammo. Know how to deal with malfunctions.
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