{"id":43572,"date":"2020-03-18T06:18:11","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T11:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=43572"},"modified":"2020-03-18T06:18:11","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T11:18:11","slug":"43572","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=43572","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Too Much Freedom & My Ability to Say, \u201cNO,\u201d & Instantly Enforce It<\/a><\/p>\n

How do I explain it?<\/p>\n

Contrary to leftist dogma, I don\u2019t carry a concealed pistol in public because I secretly harbor some surreptitious desire to shoot criminals, any more than I keep a fire extinguisher in my home and vehicle because I harbor some consuming desire to put out fires.<\/p>\n

I consider these practices, both involving sensible emergency\/safety equipment, to represent reasonable and prudent precautions. Ones we all sincerely hope never become necessary.<\/p>\n

Anyone even vaguely familiar with what we all laughingly call our\u00a0\u201cJustice System\u201d<\/em>\u00a0knows and understands the legal, financial, and emotional trauma that invariably attends any shooting incident, regardless of participants, circumstances, nor outcome. It is the last thing any rational person, including me, ever wants to become involved in!<\/p>\n

Yet, I carry a concealed pistol, so that I can place absolute limits on what people can do to me and those in my charge.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So that I can say \u201cNo,\u201d and have that single syllable represent more than just platitudinous rhetoric, more than just a \u201cfeel-good\u201d cliche.<\/p>\n

As a sovereign American Citizen, I can say, \u201cNo,\u201d and be in a position to personally, instantly enforce it, with lethal finality, upon my own summary command and judgment.<\/h3>\n

Few other civilizations trust citizens with such personal authority.<\/p>\n

That is because, in most nations, even most Western nations, the term \u201ccitizen\u201d is little more than a cynical euphemism! Most \u201ccitizens,\u201d even in the West, are actually \u201csubjects.\u201d Subjects who have no rights, and who may enjoy only those precious few \u201cprivileges\u201d casually bestowed upon them by the ruling elite, privileges that can be granted, or withdrawn, at a whim.<\/p>\n

Not surprisingly, such \u201csubjects\u201d are routinely, arbitrarily crushed to earth and trampled upon by criminals, criminals from both the public and private sectors.<\/p>\n

Not here in the United States!<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In this Republic, a \u201cBill of Privileges\u201d is found nowhere in our Constitution.<\/h3>\n

Here, we sovereign citizens have rights, and our rights are not benightedly dribbled-out to us by arrogant politicians. We are endowed with them by our Creator! Our Founding Documents say so, in unmistakable terms.<\/p>\n

So here, self-defense is the right of every citizen. And, not just with fences, locks, alarms, warning signs, and clever rhetoric.<\/p>\n

Our personal right of self-defense extends to lethal force.<\/p>\n

This right has teeth, and without it, the rest are illusory.<\/p>\n

Accordingly, this right must ever be protected from sleazy neo-Marxists who, occasionally peering-out from behind their ecumenical cadre of heavily-armed bodyguards, profess to worry about us mere citizens having\u00a0\u201ctoo much freedom!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Too Much Freedom & My Ability to Say, \u201cNO,\u201d & Instantly Enforce It How do I explain it? Contrary to leftist dogma, I don\u2019t carry a concealed pistol in public because I secretly harbor some surreptitious desire to shoot criminals, any more than I keep a fire extinguisher in my home and vehicle because I … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,8,29,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial-o-the-day","category-rkba","category-safety","category-self-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43582,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43572\/revisions\/43582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}