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John Longenecker
Safer Streets
Those
blue boxes at the top...
Those blue boxes at the top of each
newsletter edition are quotes I select as part of our liberty
philosophy in speaking to the electorate, especially non-gun
owners. If I take one from another source, I credit the author. If
it has no credit, it's my own words.
Millions of gun owners take the time to
educate non-gun owner Americans on how we, the people, are
empowered by dint of law, by moral authority and by sovereign
authority. One of my statements which fortifies their efforts is
the concept that when you act sovereign, you reinforce this such
that officials are far less likely even to suggest ludicrous
programs.
But officials have stopped taking us
seriously. This is because they were able to foist gun control on
us for a few generations, and too many Americans did not connect a
refusal of gun control as a necessary exercise of our authority in
protecting our sovereignty from our own servants.
When gun control began, Americans did not
act like the sovereign.
For officials who really want both smaller
government and safer streets, then repeal gun laws and for two
reasons: 1) It is the instruction of the sovereign and there would
be no two sides about it, and; 2) because the armed citizen is
where crime is fought. For most crimes of violence, it is where
crime is fought best.
Republicans, call your office.
I selected this excerpt from Safer
Streets 2010, the e-book edition because it accentuates a
problem whose solution was always within the grasp of the
electorate, the household, right down to the individuals
themselves. The realization that how a household will respond to
violence is not only neglected, but is theirs to manage, theirs
alone.
The loss of a great deal of our
sovereignty is because Americans have not stood up and insisted on
what is ours to manage and what is not our own government's to
manage.
The solution begins with an awareness of
what belongs to us, both freedoms and safer streets
responsibilities, and the key to accepting the freedom is to
insist on owning the reponsibility.
Example: Your personal safety is your responsibility.
No amount of gun regulation which limits your access to lethal
force will ever take the place of your legal authority to act when
facing grave danger. Though it may have sounded resonable at the
time, gun regulation influenced you and not criminals; it bluffed
adult citizens out of their legal authority to act. A citizen aware
of their authority over officials would not have seen gun
regulation as reasonable for safer streets.
This never-ending action is ours to
carry out in self-rule, a community where safer streets
are one good proof of a healthy self-rule.
In this country, as in any other country, if
you don't do something that needs to be done, someone else will,
and you won't like it.
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Because of
his lack of action on the issue, The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun
Violence continues to claim President Obama isn't doing enough to
reward his earnest anti-gun supporters. They claim he has abandoned
his anti-gun base and hasn't lifted a finger to further the cause
of gun control in America. After his first year in office the Brady
campaign actually gave the Obama administration an F
grade.
