An outlaw is described as someone who has broken the law yet has not been captured for the crime. They live outside of the law, thus they're an outlaw.
Kill the King's deer (hunt or fish w/o a license)...outlaw! Jaywalk...outlaw. Speed...outlaw. No seat belt...outlaw. Smoke some weed...outlaw. Drink a beer on the 15 minute drive home after work...outlaw. You did it, no doubt about it! You just haven't been caught yet. And it doesn't matter how minor the infraction is (most of the things I mentioned are minor infractions of the law)...you're guilty!
Have dinner with more than ten members of your family on Thanksgiving (in some States)...OUTLAW!
Most of us are made outlaws simply by the overwhelming burden of laws too numerous to mention. Most of the time we aren't even aware of the laws that we break. Yet, as we all know, ignorance of the law is no excuse.
When you're caught breaking a law and you get convicted you then become a convict. An outlaw and a convict are two very different things. Some might even say that a convict is just a stupid outlaw who wasn't smart enough to stay one step ahead of the Po-Po. A convict has to bear that ignominious title forever.
An outlaw, on the other hand, can be notorious, infamous, famous, a charmer or a rapscallion. Names like Frank and Jessie James, Butch and Sundance...the Outlaw Josie Wales ring a bell. (yeah, yeah, I know...Josie Wales wasn't real but the name is catchy)
It's true that an outlaw may go down in a hail of bullets but what a story they tell along the way before they do. A person can revel on their outlaw nature up until the minute they are captured and convicted...or killed.
So what am I to think when someone from the other side of the political spectrum says they want "unity"? They already consider me an outlaw and they've said so publicly numerous times. They've declared they want to make me a convict for any number of things for which there aren't even laws. I'm pretty sure that they'll get around to that as soon as they are able to just to make it "official".
Now, me...I'm going to keep on being an outlaw. I'm going to revel in being an outlaw. You do what you want. What have I got to lose? It may come down to me getting caught and convicted but it seems more likely that in the end I'll be gunned down by some far left, radicalized, freaked out, trumped up jackboot who thinks I'm a Nazi who "won't comply" and they'll gun me down in a blaze of ignorant, self assured destruction.
I just hope somebody captures the blaze of ignorant destruction from that far left, radicalized, freaked out, trumped up jackboot who thinks I'm a Nazi and they post it on a social media platform so that others can revel in their outlaw nature as well. "He died with his boots" on will be the refrain.
It would make an interesting story.