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Are America's gun owners talking to non-gun owners about guns, or about your personal independence, safer streets and smaller government?
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"Independence is defined by the Sovereign, not the servants. To reduce the size of government, then, the repeal of gun laws has to come first, or the incoming Congress will not have any real undserstanding in keeping its promise for smaller government." - JL
Safer Streets 2010 is also available Publisher Direct.
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Greetings!
I don't know if many of you know this, but Dr. Laura is a friend of liberty and the second amendment. She has written on the subject and has been an ally. Dr. Laura's articles appear on our Safer Streets Commentary by prior arrangement, and I chose her column today because she is making a move to the Sirius XM radio network where, she remarks, she will be freer. Her remarks today are on video, and I want you to consider how she and I are in agreement; the second amendment is a vital part of a totality of values which protect this country. Our job here is to show how the second amendment is as mainstream a value as marriage and family in protecting our sovereign interests. In January, I want you to tune in to her show on XM.
The more Americans who understand the second amendment as a mainstream value, the more likely we will be to see smaller government. Freedom doesn't work without a second amendment, and a second amendment won't work without an adherence to all the rest of our values.
David Codrea shows why we are even here: some of the electorate has a mistaken notion about second amendment authority, and where that sometimes comes from. Thanks, David!
Bob Parks is with us. Thanks, Bob!
Alan Caruba gives us two commentaries in one; his remarks and a link to our friends at the Tenth Amendment Center. Thanks, Alan!
Sometimes decency isn't as hard to call as it might be disputed. Suzanne Fields reviews True Grit which, to me, is more than a story. The first one is among my favorite John Wayne pictures.
Thanks for being with me.
Happy New Year in sovereign liberty.
John Longenecker
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John Longenecker Safer Streets thru smaller government. Not at Gunpoint, but at Counterpoint, Part II.
Happy New Year!!
Last edition, I pointed out: Gun control is not stupid and in need of education; gun control is shrewd and in need of being abolished by an educated electorate.
A great many anti-gun organizations and writers attack an inanimate object and muster some emotion from citizens, but they are really discouraging American spirit. It does not pass the test of reasonable expectation that, once educated on second amendment, the anti-gun movements persist as if they are simply stubborn and dealing with America in good faith. It is not a matter of educating them, because they already know the role of the armed citizen rather well. The anti-gun movement operates to destroy the nation as certainly as anti-family movements do and anti-patriotism (political correctness) movements do.
The battle, then, is not to bother educating these anti-American movements, but to educate the balance of the electorate to resist them on their own with powers of discernment and with an understanding of what they have to lose. And brother, we're losing.
These are the same movements which have taken down other nations. Don't think for a moment that other national movements took only guns from the people: they also took their money, their family spirit, travel rights, their knowledge of their heritage, and they took their lives.
The mission we now have before us is to educate the electorate on the role of the armed citizen as part of larger totality of values which operate as safeguards of our nation. The framework is simple: Personal Independence shows large government programs to be a redundency of safeguards already working better than bureaucracy will ever work. If you had to enunciate the second amendment to a layman in one sentence, would that explanation work? Would connecting the armed citizen to smaller government reach millions?
Many programs -- such as gun control -- must dislocate and block this independence in order to make room for costly programs as if the armed citizen never existed as a crime control function for morelocal control, smaller government and, of course, personal self-defense.
Our sovereignty cannot exist without a second amendment, and a second amendment cannot exist without an adherence to values of character, integrity and good faith. You simply cannot have independence from your own public servants without both, or all, and it is all values which are being systematically discouraged.
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David Codrea Second Amendment Media disinformation on guns continues in Texas open carry hit piece.
"Sitting down for dinner at any Texan diner, in my experience, often involves guns," Rachel Stewart of the Tarnaki Daily News (New Zealand) informs her readers.
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Bob Parks Black & Right
See Bob Parks' analysis daily at Black & Right.
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Dr. Laura Schlessinger Independence
Dr. Laura sees her move to the Sirius XM satellite radio network as opportunity.
See Dr. Laura on Youtube....
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Alan Caruba Warning Signs Nullification for 2011
The great issue of our times is the same great issue of the 1830s. The question is whether Congress can pass legislation or the President issue executive orders that are not authorized by or consistent with the Constitution?
The federal government is a republic composed of separate and sovereign republics.
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Suzanne Fields Integrity True Grit Redux
 [ . . .] In the theater where I watched this latest version of "True Grit," I was struck by the sight of families there to watch it together - children, parents, grandparents and friends of different generations. The adventure story has that kind of sweeping appeal, and the story is even more exciting in the written word. Americans once grew up on literature like this. More . . .
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