To use lethal force in self defense is the ultimate declaration of independence, a kind of momentary secession from the authority of the government whose laws and prisons and police officers have, in that moment, failed the citizen. To acknowledge the right to self defense -- and the concomitant right to be forearmed against aggressors -- is to acknowledge that some things are outside the state and its authority, or at least that some moments are outside the state and its authority.
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