Happy New Year!!
Things are looking up. We have a better stock of Congress than we have had in a very long time. There is a lot of reason for optimism. What can we do make the most of it from here?
Well, we talk to people and we write. One of the greatest challenges we'll face is to persuade non-gun owners to see how gun control was an advance force for boondoggles we see around us. This means that when we talk second amendment, we do not talk about guns, but giving meaning to how the armed citizen has long been a safeguard of the community against precisely such boondoggles and how gun control was necessary to remove that safeguard before any other boondoggles could take hold.
The key is in relating the armed citizen to how we get to smaller government, or get back to smaller government, that is. So many programs depend on an evergreen crisis of violence and losses of crime. For these to really work, they have to fail, and gun control is a perfect example of built-in failure. Thus, it succeeds: for, where the target of violence is largely the first line of defense, any interference with that safeguard opens the door to nearly any predatory political agenda.
Gun control is not stupid and in need of education; gun control is shrewd and in need of being abolished by an educated electorate.
When we talk about the repeal of gun laws, we are talking about restoring two of the fundamental safeguards of the nation; 1. the sovereignty of the people in instructing officials without quarrel from them (delays such as 'debate'), and 2. the idea that so many of these programs are not needed. NEED is the growth hormone of big government. Apparent necessity for such programs is the lifeblood which carries the nutrients officials feed on. It brings in not only revenues, but control and intimidation. Forced dependency is the product they sell or compel.
When we talk about the respect for the second amendment, we shouldn't be talking about guns, but talking about independence from our own public servants, and that begins with our say so, not theirs. It begins with the repeal of gun control.
For non-gun owners who say they want safer streets and smaller government as much as anyone, this is the solution. They are your audience or readership niche just waiting for the answer of how we get them both back and keep it this time. They all need to see our presence all over the place not for guns, but for the very same thing they want: independence from our public servants.
An often-cited Pew Research Study showed how most Americans are not liberal, but happy and often not interested in Politics. Until now. They have a lot of catching up to do, and we have to be there for them. Their independence and our independence will not come as long as there is gun control to make it look as if we are in need of government program after program after program after program . . .
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Last week's events in Washington were a preview of lawmaking in 2011, but Congress was not where the real action was. While the media was distracted by the last breaths of a defeated leftist majority in Congress, it was the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that gave true picture of how the Obama Administration will advance their agenda in 2011.
[. . . ] On Wednesday, the ACLU sent a letter to federal health officials urging the government to force Catholic hospitals in the U.S. to perform abortions in violation of their core moral commitment to protecting the lives of the unborn. They're counting on sympathetic Obama rationing czar Donald Berwick - a recess appointee whose radical views on wealth and health redistribution were never vetted by Congress - to dictate which religious principles hospital operators can and cannot follow. 
