CONCLUSION: BEARING PERSONAL ARMS IS THE ONLY SOURCE OF FREEDOM The origin of pr

CONCLUSION: BEARING PERSONAL ARMS IS THE ONLY SOURCE OF FREEDOM

The origin of private property rights was as the reward for enfranchisement, and enfranchisement the reward for owning and carrying, and using arms in defense of both private and common property.

No other civilization developed and held peerage – interpersonal property rights. None. And None other held them.

Aristocratic Egalitarianism is the cultural difference between western civilization and the rest. It is why we have the common law. And we have the common law because of property rights. And we have property rights because ‘citizenship’ meant bearing arms. And nobility meant the right to bear them.

We can ‘lend’ our violence to the government if we wish, to act on our behalf. A division of labor is good for all of us.

But when the government ceases to use our violence on our behalf, and instead uses it to violate our hard won, hard kept rights, then we may recall our loan of violence. And we may only do that if we are armed.

Violence is a virtue. It is the highest virtue. It is the origin of freedom. It is the only origin of freedom.