It can be difficult to run your own firm, but the trade off is fewer conflicts and more control.

They're denied almost all imports except under tight control. They don't really trade with the world any more in any particular way. Their bank accounts are frozen. So on economic grounds, we've essentially done the worst we can do with Iraq, and so far they've survived.

At what point is someone precluded from availing themselves of the justification of self-defense because of their own poor judgment or bad behavior?

While in the Florida legislature, I strongly opposed the Stand Your Ground law because I believed it would provide defenses to people who had created the scenarios they sought protection from. Or it would leave juries without the proper rules of engagement that ought govern predictable human interactions.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

So great is the demand that the killings in India, and the illegal trade, are now spiraling out of control. To our great distress, [in Tibet] we found tiger and leopard skins practically everywhere we went, and the dealers repeatedly and categorically told us that the skins had come from India.