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[Ooana Trien ~ Eric Arthur Blaire’s Mistress @ooana]

I always understood why the Second Amendment was constitutionally protected.

What I never really understood was why people called it a natural right.

Then I moved from New York to Florida.

I didn’t own a gun yet.

One afternoon I was loading things into the trunk of my car outside a HomeGoods when a man approached me.

“Excuse me.”

He must have thought he’d startled me, because he immediately added, “Don’t worry. I’m not going to get close.”

I laughed.

“I’m a New Yorker. I’m used to close. How can I help you?”

He started telling me that he needed money for gas.

At some point while he was talking, I got into my car.

And sitting there, with the conversation still unfolding, I suddenly realized something:

He didn’t know whether I had a gun.

Not somewhere at home.

Not hypothetically.

For all he knew, I could have had one right there in the car, tucked under the steering wheel or within reach.

I didn’t.

But he couldn’t know that.

Schrödinger’s gun.

And in that instant, before I even knew whether his story was true, something changed in the space between us.

I thought about New York.

I thought about my friend who had been murdered in his own apartment during a burglary gone wrong.

Would those men have gone into his apartment if they had believed he might be armed?

I don’t know.

I thought about the time I was mugged at gunpoint, with a gun pressed against my temple.

Would that man have approached me with the same confidence if he had believed there was even a possibility that I could defend myself?

I don’t know that either.

But sitting there in that Florida parking lot, listening to this stranger talk, I suddenly understood deterrence in a way I never had before.

Not as military theory.

Not as constitutional law.

As something intimate.

My body. My life. The few feet between one person and another.

For years I had thought about guns primarily as objects: who had one, who shouldn’t have one, what laws should govern them.

Suddenly I understood the question from the other direction.

What changes when another person cannot simply assume that I am defenseless?

I felt taller.

Not because I had a gun.

I didn’t.

But because, for the first time, I understood that someone approaching me could not automatically assume that being physically stronger meant having power over me.

There was uncertainty.

There was a boundary around my body that had to be taken seriously.

Then his story began to fall apart.

I told him I didn’t have cash, but offered to help another way. I could put some gas in his car.

He took off.

So apparently, yes, it was a scam.

But by then I had already understood something much larger than the scam.

The phrase natural right finally made sense to me.

The Constitution had not given me ownership of my body.

It had not given me my life.

It had not invented my right to protect either one.

Those things came first.

What I understood that afternoon was the thing underneath them.

I had once been completely helpless while another human being held a gun against my temple.

Years later, without a gun in my possession at all, I understood what it meant for the person approaching me not to know whether I was helpless.

That uncertainty changed the space between us.

And that was the moment I finally understood the natural right behind the Second Amendment:

My life is mine, and
the right to defend it has to exist before anyone gives me permission to do so.

[Eli Steele @Hebro_Steele]

Shelby Steele -- zero allegations of plagiarism or other misdeeds.

Thomas Sowell -- zero allegations of plagiarism or other misdeeds.

Walter Williams -- zero allegations of plagiarism or other misdeeds.

Ward Connerly -- zero allegations of plagiarism or other misdeeds.

Larry Elder -- zero allegations of plagiarism or other misdeeds.

Not one of them ever plagiarized a word. Not one fraud. Not one retraction. Their reward for a lifetime of honest work? Uncle Tom. Race traitor. Sellout.

Claudine Gay -- plagiarized her way to the top and resigned as Harvard's president.

Jason Arday -- Cambridge's youngest black professor now facing major plagiarism allegations and resigned while his university investigates whether or not his own biography was real.

Nobody called them sellouts. The Left called them victims of racism, a racial witch hunt.

In the age of white guilt, honesty is punished and fraud is protected, as long as you serve the right side.

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@EnesFreedom @JanuaryDoNoHarm @WNBA I would immediately start watching

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@EnesFreedom @JanuaryDoNoHarm @WNBA

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@AlpacaAurelius Other than The Bible? Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl. Changed my entire perspective.

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@FrancescaHongWI Sounds like you need to go back for some remedial education at the Quality Learing Center.

[GINGERSKOL💜💛 @GlowSurfing]

Spot on!! 🎯😎😆

I can’t wait for the comments!!

Nicklas Nilsson explains the difference between right-wing and left-wing people in spot-on text on Facebook:

"If a right-wing person is gay, then he is, and he doesn't care what others think.
If a left-winger is gay, then he demands legal changes, protests against everything and everyone, and turns it into a political struggle.

If a right-winger is vegan, then he simply doesn't eat meat.
If a left-winger is vegan, then he wants to ban meat, halt food production, and protest outside farms and chicken farms.

If a right-winger doesn't like guns, then he just doesn't buy any.
If a left-winger doesn't like guns, then he tries to ban them, prevent everyone else from owning one, and hates those who do.

If a right-winger is worried about the climate, then he flies less, drives an electric car if it suits him, and sorts his waste.

If a left-winger is worried about the climate, then he wants to ban fossil fuel cars, air travel, and meat for everyone else, protest outside factories, and demand that the state forces the change.

If a right-winger wants to give his children a good education, then he moves to an area with good schools, or chooses a private school, or gets involved himself.
If a left-winger wants to give his children a good education, then he demands more tax money from everyone, equal results for all, a ban on charter schools, and protests against every inequality.

If a right-winger complains about his job or workplace.. he doesn't. He changes jobs or starts his own business.
If a left-winger complains about his job – then it's the boss, the company, or the colleagues who are at fault. He demands collective agreements, strikes, changes for the whole community, and protests against the company so that it suits him.

If a right-winger is dissatisfied with his housing or rent, then he moves, renovates, or buys something else.
If a left-winger is dissatisfied with his housing or rent, then he demands rent freezes, more subsidies, regulations for everyone, and protests against landlords and politicians.

If a right-winger fails with a business or an investment that goes wrong, then he gets up, dusts himself off, and tries again tomorrow.
If a left-winger runs out of money on the 24th, then he blames the rich for having too much and needing to contribute more, blames the lottery win that didn't come home last week, and mutters that he has such damn bad luck.

If a right-winger sees this – then he sends it to a few friends for a good laugh.
If a left-winger sees this – then he tries to argue against it, get it removed, and delete me from Facebook."

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@jeaneri Show me where the “right to privacy” exists in the constitution. Go.

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

Islamophobia is a made up term that uses the West's suicidal empathy to shut off its survival instinct. If a religion seeks to eradicate your heritage, culture, society, civilization, and religion, then it is perfectly RATIONAL to be phobic of its intrusion into your societies.

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@adamcarolla It’s cuz racism.

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@reddit_lies I’m sorry, but I just refuse to believe this is actually real.

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@MarcoFoster_ @KyleKulinski Tell me you know nothing about economics without telling me you know nothing about economics.

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

Only four times in NBA history has a player led the league in scoring, won the MVP, led the playoffs in scoring, won playoff MVP, and was 1st Team All-Defensive.

Career leaderboard:

Michael Jordan, 4
Everyone else who ever lived, 0

[AJ Inapi (Allan) @aj_inapi]

NO white person alive today owned slaves. Teach your kids that.

NO black person alive today was born a slave. Teach your kids that.

Not all white people owned slaves back then. Teach your kids that.

Millions of white people fought and died to end slavery. Teach your kids that.

People should not inherit guilt from their ancestors. Teach your kids that.

People should not inherit victimhood from their ancestors. Teach your kids that.

You are responsible for your own actions, not the actions of people who lived 200 years ago. Teach your kids that.

America is not perfect, but it is not uniquely evil. Teach your kids that.

The West is responsible for some of humanity's greatest advances in freedom, science, medicine, and prosperity. Teach your kids that.

Loving your country is not racism. Teach your kids that.

Wanting secure borders is not racism. Teach your kids that.

Wanting safe communities is not racism. Teach your kids that.

Wanting merit over quotas is not racism. Teach your kids that.

Questioning political narratives is not racism. Teach your kids that.

People should be judged by their character, not their skin color. Teach your kids that.

History should be taught honestly, not used as a weapon. Teach your kids that.

A nation that teaches its children to hate their heritage will not survive. Teach your kids that.

Your country is your home. Protecting it is not something to be ashamed of. Teach your kids that.

You do not owe an apology for being born. Teach your kids that.

Never let fear of being called names stop you from speaking the truth as you see it. Teach your kids that.

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@itslinklauren Read Coming Apart by Charles Murray. The entire book discusses this very phenomenon. “Do as I say, not as I do.”

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@KeruboSk Wait…you mean some of you actually believe this happened??

[Juanita Broaddrick @atensnut]

😂👍🏻

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

“Barack Obama's political genius is his ability to say things that will sound good to people who have not followed the issues in any detail — regardless of how obviously fraudulent what he says may be to those who have.”

— Thomas Sowell

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@AnnLesbyPhD @MattWalshBlog @nosoup4knowles I’m more interested in whether Matt requested consent before putting his hands on that goat. The thought of it has me literally shaking right now.

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@bruno_mailly @WomanDefiner They were apparently students of the Quality Learing Center.