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Joshua Prince: the inalienable right to stand your ground
Pro-gun attorneys Joshua Prince and Allen Thompson have an article on the subject in the St. Thomas Law Review.
An alternate approach to the question was taken by Thomas Hobbes. To him, we start in a state of nature which is pretty rugged. Everyone is legally free to murder, rob, etc. their neighbor, and their neighbor is legally free to do the same to them. We give up certain of these legal impunities to form a government, the object of government being personal security. But we cannot bargain away the right of self-defense, since personal security is the object of the bargain, and the reason we gave up certain things to the government. One cannot sell a house, pocket the proceeds, and then demand the house back. To Hobbes, self-defense was the one and only inalienable right.
No one reads Hobbes anymore. As for life being "nasty, brutish and short" I think we are approaching that in certain places. (Most of them controlled by Democrats for the past forever.)
Next you will be wanting people to read Loche, or "The Federalist Papers" or Jefferson or Ben Franklin's autobiography. Dead white men.
But seriously, no one has a grasp of Western Civilization. That is all as it was planned by the Left when they took over education and turned it into indoctrination. Liberty? Responsibility? What is owed the .gov and what is not? Can't have the masses thinking for themselves.
Now be a good Beta and take your Soma.