John Longenecker Safer Streets "Running
around with guns . . ."
Here's a heads up to
candidates running on the liberty platform. Here's something to
talk to voters about, too: Let's call it 'running around with
guns'. Anti-freedom activists call the armed citizen 'running
around with guns', so let's use that term a second.
Alright then:
Imagine people running around with guns. There are by some counts
close to 3 million adults who hold a concealed carry permit, 2
million by other estimates. There are 90 million gun owners in this
country, in whose hands there are roughly 300 million weapons. Some
states do not require a permit to open-carry a sidearm, some states
donot even require gun registration, and many states affirm
concealed carry of a sidearm without a permit.
That's a lot of
people running around with guns!!! Good gravy!
Then, where are all
the shootings predicted by the anti-freedom crowd?
When the astute and
brightest of the dim anti-freedom crowd insists that we can't have
people running around with guns for fear of what will happen, they
failed to notice that millions of honest adults are already
'running around with guns' and nothing happens!
This, of course,
impeaches the ant-freedom again. None of their predictions have
come true. That is the part to remember.
When you go to
vote November 2nd, be sure to think of how gun control has been a
beach head for immense and costly boondoggles we are now
experiencing as one people.
Most of all, we need
to emphasize to non-gun owner voters one simple two-part
observation, with their credibility - and our tolerance for lousey
service - as the main point of this commentary: none of the fears
of the left have come true, no matter how severe they have sounded.
But the fears of the free have come true almost one by one, and
they are getting worse. For a party who accuses everyone else of
fear-mongering, it's now a matter of credibility and even danger to
tolerate this any longer.
None of the problems
we experience today could have been possible without gun control
first. They will not be alleviated for a smaller government without
the repeal of gun laws first.
Unseat the
anti-liberty in November.
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