There was a recent shooting, which is being promoted as a”stand your ground” incident, in Florida. It has turned into one of those “big things” on the internet, with people picking sides. Personally, I’m torn.
Author: Kent McManigal
Letting Reality Upset Me
I will not pretend archators are good people or are doing right. I can’t. I would be lying to myself and others, including to the archators. That’s doing no one any favors even if it spares “feelings” and makes me a welcome part of society.
No Virtue in Upholding Bad Laws
Using laws to solve problems is like using a sawed-off shotgun to take out a bad guy in the middle of a crowd; firing at him from too far away. Sure, if your aim is true you may get him, but how many innocents will be harmed along with him? Even one is too many.
Krimes Which Didn’t Happen
It’s impossible to say how much theft doesn’t happen because cops exist. It’s impossible to say anything meaningful about events which didn’t happen. “Alternate history” is “alternate” because it isn’t history.
Serving Up Hot Coercion
If your “job” comes with a paycheck extorted from people who didn’t value your effort enough to pay for it voluntarily, you are not serving.
Political Poisoning
I certainly don’t talk about politicians. So it’s interesting how my daughter has picked up on the Trump hate from… somewhere. Maybe the Roblox gaming videos she watches on YouTube, I suppose. I can’t think of anywhere else.
Encircled, Enclosed, and Trapped
Someone recently brought up the scenario of being encircled and trapped by other property owners so that you can either not access your surrounded property or you can’t escape from it. At least, not without giving in to the other property owner’s demands, whatever they may be.
Gun Safety Essential to Gun Rights
People who hate or fear guns won’t change their minds just because you are a safe and responsible gun owner. Those who are undecided about guns can be pushed off the fence onto the anti-gun side by the publicity surrounding tragedies. Don’t be the one who gives them a push.
Humans and Rights
This truth doesn’t justify devotion to a theft-funded, anti-property rights, Big Government welfare/warfare program at “the Border”. Nor does the intentional and dishonest conflation of political “borders” and private property rights. It’s amazing to me how they can turn this around inside their own minds and call a rejection of their favorite type of communism “leftist”. How can you twist your mind that much? I have no idea.
What’s Hiding Beneath?
Statism has a thin, shiny scale of pretty-looking ethics hiding the evil beneath. It’s sort of like nail polish on an infected, fungal fingernail.