Get ready for armed militia men patroling around *any* major left-wing protest in the future, because the courts are about the green-light armed vigilantism in defense of *other people's property* all the way up to killing people who break things or light them on fire. This is how we get to pre-Hobbesian territory, where the rule of law …
Get ready for armed militia men patroling around *any* major left-wing protest in the future, because the courts are about the green-light armed vigilantism in defense of *other people's property* all the way up to killing people who break things or light them on fire. This is how we get to pre-Hobbesian territory, where the rule of law and monopoly on the use of force by the state gets dissolved. Because as soon as we say that "it's okay for gun-owners to defend property *outside of their castle*" we are essentially telling the cops that it's okay for an armed militia to be out on the streets defending someone else's private property. One can go to a protest of the opposing political party strapped with an AR-15, start taunting and antagonizing protestors, and as soon as one of them throws a punch you are allowed to execute them because "I was scared that he was going to take my rifle away from me and kill me with it!" One can start antagonizing a proud boy for lighting a BLM flag on fire via Aubrey-esque "citizen's arrest", and if that proud boy tries to fight you for it you can blast him and claim "self-defense" from the hostile crowd of proud boys around the guy and claim they were going to mob you. This is the society we're quickly leaning toward via courts and bad legal precedents. These justices aren't thinking about the secondary or tertiary effects tomorrow. Things are going to get more politically violent this decade the way the courts and legislators are asleep. We're going to sleep walk into *real* political bloodshed. Get ready to party like it's the 1850's in Kansas.
Get ready for armed militia men patroling around *any* major left-wing protest in the future, because the courts are about the green-light armed vigilantism in defense of *other people's property* all the way up to killing people who break things or light them on fire. This is how we get to pre-Hobbesian territory, where the rule of law and monopoly on the use of force by the state gets dissolved. Because as soon as we say that "it's okay for gun-owners to defend property *outside of their castle*" we are essentially telling the cops that it's okay for an armed militia to be out on the streets defending someone else's private property. One can go to a protest of the opposing political party strapped with an AR-15, start taunting and antagonizing protestors, and as soon as one of them throws a punch you are allowed to execute them because "I was scared that he was going to take my rifle away from me and kill me with it!" One can start antagonizing a proud boy for lighting a BLM flag on fire via Aubrey-esque "citizen's arrest", and if that proud boy tries to fight you for it you can blast him and claim "self-defense" from the hostile crowd of proud boys around the guy and claim they were going to mob you. This is the society we're quickly leaning toward via courts and bad legal precedents. These justices aren't thinking about the secondary or tertiary effects tomorrow. Things are going to get more politically violent this decade the way the courts and legislators are asleep. We're going to sleep walk into *real* political bloodshed. Get ready to party like it's the 1850's in Kansas.