“A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.” - Frederick Douglass, 1867.

It's still true. Yes, all three are dangerous and open to abuse, but they - with the right protections in place - will provide better outcomes than the alternatives.

If Douglass could've conceived of a world without cash then perhaps he would've mentioned a fourth.

Don’t play the pronoun game, it makes the conversation hard to follow and reply to. Which one of the four things - privacy, freedom of expression, gun ownership, or right to bear cash - are you finding jarring?

Sorry for being too nebulous, it was the guns.

Interesting observation and a good reminder that what isn't even noteworthy for half the US is shocking for others.

Many people are completely serious that the only way to take to take their guns is quite literally over their dead body.

In my community the folks here have a ratio of firearms to people of about 20:1. Many of them save their brass/steel and reload their own ammo. Most here carry concealed and are not required to have a permit. Same goes for some neighboring states. Permits are only required if traveling into a state that does not honor permit-less carry based on state ID.

As a funny side note this is only place I have lived where it is normal to see people get out of their vehicle with hunting/assault rifles at the gas station sorting/shifting their gear and nobody bats an eye. My bank has a fundraiser poster on the door for a rifle giveaway prize.

Privacy and cash are closely linked. Credit card companies are the experts on consumer spending data.

While there isn’t a risk of cash being banned or anything of the sort, we should cherish it as if it can be.

Cash gives you a level of financial discretion for which the only comparable alternative is gold, but more liquid.