Every state has not only the right but the duty to make adequate provision for its own defense in the way it thinks best, providing it does not do so at the expense of any other state.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Every State has the primary duty to protect its own population from grave and sustained violations of human rights, as well as from the consequences of humanitarian crises, whether natural or man-made.
The state knows best how to protect resources.
The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.
But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care.
If you want my opinion, I say that this is a state based on occupation, that has usurped the rights of others.
Right is its own defense.
The individual is not only best qualified to provide his own personal defense, he is the only one qualified to do so: and his right to do so is guaranteed by the Constitution.
The idea of the state is, or should be, a very limited, prescribed idea. The state looks after the defense of the realm, and other matters - raising revenue to pay for things which are for all of us, and so on. That idea has turned turtle now. The state isn't any longer perceived as an institution which exists to serve us.
A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.
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