Truth. Black Lives DO matter. Especially when they take steps to protect themselves from rampant black-on-black crime.
BTW, has anyone seen update to DC now that they dropped their appeal?
I wonder what took so long, Blacks live under the same laws as everyone else.
Good, this will do far more to clean up crime-ridden neighborhoods than “midnight basketball”.
HOORAY Detroiters and Detroit Police Chief James Craig.
What Is Law?
What, then, is law? It is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense.
Each of us has a natural right — from God — to defend his person, his liberty, and his property. These are the three basic requirements of life, and the preservation of any one of them is completely dependent upon the preservation of the other two. For what are our faculties but the extension of our individuality? And what is property but an extension of our faculties? If every person has the right to defend even by force — his person, his liberty, and his property, then it follows that a group of men have the right to organize and support a common force to protect these rights constantly. Thus the principle of collective right — its reason for existing, its lawfulness — is based on individual right. And the common force that protects this collective right cannot logically have any other purpose or any other mission than that for which it acts as a substitute. Thus, since an individual cannot lawfully use force against the person, liberty, or property of another individual, then the common force — for the same reason — cannot lawfully be used to destroy the person, liberty, or property of individuals or groups.
Such a perversion of force would be, in both cases, contrary to our premise. Force has been given to us to defend our own individual rights. Who will dare to say that force has been given to us to destroy the equal rights of our brothers? Since no individual acting separately can lawfully use force to destroy the rights of others, does it not logically follow that the same principle also applies to the common force that is nothing more than the organized combination of the individual forces?
If this is true, then nothing can be more evident than this: The law is the organization of the natural right of lawful defense. It is the substitution of a common force for individual forces. And this common force is to do only what the individual forces have a natural and lawful right to do: to protect persons, liberties, and properties; to maintain the right of each, and to cause justice to reign over us all.
A Just and Enduring Government
If a nation were founded on this basis, it seems to me that order would prevail among the people, in thought as well as in deed. It seems to me that such a nation would have the most simple, easy to accept, economical, limited, nonoppressive, just, and enduring government imaginable — whatever its political form might be.
Under such an administration, everyone would understand that he possessed all the privileges as well as all the responsibilities of his existence.
I do not think that illegal plunder, such as theft or swindling — which the penal code defines, anticipates, and punishes — can be called socialism. It is not this kind of plunder that systematically threatens the foundations of society. Anyway, the war against this kind of plunder has not waited for the command of these gentlemen. The war against illegal plunder has been fought since the beginning of the world. Long before the Revolution of February 1848 — long before the appearance even of socialism itself — France had provided police, judges, gendarmes, prisons, dungeons, and scaffolds for the purpose of fighting illegal plunder. The law itself conducts this war, and it is my wish and opinion that the law should always maintain this attitude toward plunder.
The Law Defends Plunder
But it does not always do this. Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Thus the beneficiaries are spared the shame, danger, and scruple which their acts would otherwise involve. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons, and gendarmes at the service of the plunderers, and treats the victim — when he defends himself — as a criminal.
/Bastiat “The Law”
For sleepy Detroiters...
“Cities need to get guns out of [the] … hands” of persons who are “male, minority, and between the ages of 15 and 25.”
Elitist/socialist/totalitarian overlord ALERT!
Rick Ector’s website.
http://www.legallyarmedindetroit.com/
You can find plenty of videos of his classes online. Very comprehensive stuff. He brings in cops and attorneys in to explain things like how to report your shooting to a 911 operator without incriminating yourself or getting shot be responding officers.
MAybe should say “LEGAL Concealed Carry Surging in the Black Community”
What happens when infringing the 2nd Amendment becomes racist?
“Well, except for the NPR part............. Anyway, this is exactly what nannie bloomers railed about at the Aspen Institute. Take the guns out of the hands of “minorities”. Wanna bet we won’t hear any condemnation form bloomers or the momunists in this case”
We need to start framing the 2nd Amendment as a right that is being systematically denied to minorities concentrated in the cities. Big city political machines want their citizen constituents living in poverty and in fear for their lives in order to keep them dependent and cowed.