The Necessity of Self Defense
February 21, 2022
LAST MONTH, the unnamed man pictured above was approached by an armed 18-year-old in the Fairmount neighborhood of Philadelphia. In one of three attempted carjackings that night in the city, the teenager demanded his car.
Instead, the driver pulled out a gun and fired five times. His action may have saved his life. The teenager fled and was later treated at a hospital.
Too bad 60-year-old, military veteran George Briscella who was shot and killed by a carjacker this month while leaving his mother’s home in Northeast Philadlephia; 70-year-old Chung Chin who was savagely beaten to death by carjackers in December; 25-year-old Milan Longcar who was shot and killed last year in Philadelphia while walking his dog; and 21-year-old Samuel Collington who was shot and killed two months ago in a carjacking near Temple University were all not armed and ready. They might all be alive today.
America’s cities are more dangerous than ever, now with frequent and unbelievably brazen carjackings, which have reportedly risen by more than 500 percent in major cities and which Philadelphia Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw (bad enough that she’s a woman, but the name!) attributes in part to the normalization of face masks, which have predictably provided thugs with a new level of anonymity.
In the case of Longcar, his sister said that she and his friends were so shaken by his murder that they would be moving out of Philadelphia.
Are these neighborhoods going to be left to criminals? Will the people who cannot move to another location become more and more threatened?
Whites such as Longcar’s sister and Collington have learned complete passivity in the face of mortal threats to their existence. The answer is not for everyone to move, but for an armed and ready citizenry to emerge. Most teenagers engaging in acts of theft do not want to risk their lives and the police alone cannot possibly prevent these crimes. Only when criminals know that they may endanger themselves will our cities ever be reasonably safer.
It is essential not only for law-abiding adults to learn to wield a gun, but also to familiarize themselves with the laws in each state so that they themselves are not arrested after justified self defense. In the case of the driver above, he understood how to explain his action: his life was in danger.
Just a reminder on the morality of gun use:
“…the act of self-defense may have two effects, one is the saving of one’s life, the other is the slaying of the aggressor. Therefore this act, since one’s intention is to save one’s own life, is not unlawful, seeing that it is natural to everything to keep itself in ‘being,’ as far as possible. And yet, though proceeding from a good intention, an act may be rendered unlawful, if it be out of proportion to the end. Wherefore if a man, in self-defense, uses more than necessary violence, it will be unlawful: whereas if he repel force with moderation his defense will be lawful, because according to the jurists [Cap. Significasti, De Homicid. volunt. vel casual.], ‘it is lawful to repel force by force, provided one does not exceed the limits of a blameless defense.’ Nor is it necessary for salvation that a man omit the act of moderate self-defense in order to avoid killing the other man, since one is bound to take more care of one’s own life than of another’s.”
— St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, Q. 64 murder, Article 7
These crimes are committed — possibly without exception — by blacks, incited and emboldened no doubt by the orchestrated war against social order. They encourage anger to be displaced from those committing the incitement, who are engaging in a controlled demolition of our economy and society at large, to the savage and powerless. The majority of victims in cities like Philadelphia are black and most of the perpetrators end up with ruined lives in jail.