It used to be before liberals embraced authoritarianism that they would talk a lot about rights. You’re right. My right. Everything was a right, a right to health care, Miranda rights. You couldn’t debate whether those rights or not.

But if you’re talking about rights, you at some point want to identify the most basic human right of all. What is that? Well, of course, it’s the right of self-defense. That’s the essential right upon which all other rights depend. If you can’t defend yourself, you can’t defend your family and your property, you don’t have any rights at all. You’re a slave by definition. 

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