How is the right to self-defense applied under capitalism?
Under capitalism, it is the government’s job to use force to defend its citizen’s rights; however, government is not omnipotent, and it is not omnipresent: it cannot be everywhere. In many cases the protective forces of government cannot arrive to a criminal situation in time to prevent an irreversible situation, i.e., such as a murder. As such, every peaceful citizen has the right to those means necessary to protect themselves in emergency situations, until the police can arrive to ‘takeover’, i.e., an intrusion by a would be rapist when a woman is alone in ones apartment.
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