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Showing posts with label Self Defence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Self Defence. Show all posts
Tuesday, 12 May 2026

Judith Collins's legacy: image over reality.

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A career summarised: no ideas, no direction, no success -- and not one car crushed W hat does a career in politics achieve?  This afternoon ...
Thursday, 14 December 2023

Sovereignty: The Nature of Government

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O ver the course of the Enlightenment, ideas on sovereignty were changing – and were changing most on how sovereignty was justified. What ga...
Thursday, 26 October 2023

Proportionality in self-defence

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I rarely cite a Lord here, and just as rarely a KC. But here we go, below, with a lengthy opinion by one Lord Verdirame, KC, on how Isreal...
Tuesday, 29 November 2022

"A proper government is only a policeman, acting as an agent of man’s self-defence

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"T he only proper purpose of a government is to protect man’s rights....     "A 'right'… means freedom from physical comp...
Tuesday, 7 June 2022

"Arguments about [American] gun rights ... remain a mess"

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"T o see why it is proper for a government to regulate weapons and to understand the principles by which it should, we need to go back ...
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Thursday, 26 May 2022

Ban guns?

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"T o ban guns because criminals use them is to tell the law abiding that their rights and liberties depend not on their own conduct, bu...
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Tuesday, 29 March 2022

What John Galt Would Say to Will Smith

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A liberty lesson delivered by Dan Sanchez from 'the slap heard round the world.' Ayn Rand Image Credit: Public Domain What John Gal...
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Monday, 31 August 2020

"If you think that one has a 'right' to burn down cities because George Floyd, you are against the concept of rights. If you think that citizens can look for a fight, and when they find it, kill people by right of 'self-defense,' you are against the Rule of Law..." #QotD

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"I f you think that one has a 'right' to burn down cities because George Floyd, you are against the concept of rights.     ...
Wednesday, 11 December 2019

"All men are born free and independent, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights, among which may be reckoned the right of enjoying and defending their lives and liberties; that of acquiring, possessing, and protecting property; in fine, that of seeking and obtaining their safety and happiness." #QotD

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"All men are born free and independent, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights, among which may be reckoned the ...
Tuesday, 9 July 2019

"If NZ's political class had looked to the history of gun control efforts they would have seen they were walking a well-trodden path that leads to a dead end. But then again, if they had enough foresight to know that ill-considered restrictions on personal liberty are usually counterproductive and often breed rebellion, they probably wouldn't have gone into government." Bonus #QotD

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"Once again, responding to a horrendous crime by inflicting knee-jerk, authoritarian restrictions on innocent people proves to be an...
Tuesday, 9 April 2019

"Under pressure, democracies have a nasty habit of acting like panicked crowds, suppressing anything frightening or just different in a search for security and conformity... a grim illustration of just how vulnerable the "liberal" element of liberal democracy can be." BONUS #QotD

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"Under pressure, democracies have a nasty habit of acting like panicked crowds, suppressing anything frightening or just different i...
Thursday, 4 April 2019

Gun buyback: Correlation is not causation [updated]

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THE LABOUR-LED GOVERNMENT'S compulsory 'gun buyback' legislation is said by the Deputy Prime Minister to cost somewhere ...
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