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Gun control doesn’t stop crime, it grows it

Gun Rights On The Air



Sunday night, I was a guest on WHK, Cleveland, Ohio’s Townhall.com affiliate and their show Firearms Forum. This is a show produced by the Buckeye Firearms Association which has found fabulous success at a leading radio station. This was the fifth time I have been on their show. Liberty writer Howard Nemerov, a colleague of mine at Examiner.com where we both write, was on the show last week. The significant point is that WHK 1420 AM is a mainstream station, emphasis on mainstream.

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Host Chris Chumita kindly asked me about my book Safe Streets, but the accentuation was on how the armed citizen can be a legal and effective force for getting out from under bigger government, and in precisely the way people have said they need this. This becomes an important message to the mainstream audience of non-gun owners who now feel as plagued and harassed by bigger government as liberty-minded gun owners had forecast. The key is, of course, how the authority within each citizen can manage crime better than so many pre-emptive anti-crime programs or after-the-fact programs. After all, crime is not fought by chasing it long after it’s had its way with its victims, crime is only caught after-the-fact. Crime is best fought during-the-fact with superior force and with one’s individual authority to act. Chris asked me to elaborate. Each of us has the authority to stop a crime in progress. Whether this is smart differs from one incident to the next; most often, it is one of the smartest things one can do. Citizens need to understand that they are possessed of authority to act, and that all anti-violence and anti-gun movements have obfuscated this. This changes the entire complexion of how citizens perceive law enforcement, how they work with law enforcement, their options in the absence of police, what to expect from police, the politics of gun control and the future of our society as more and more ineffectual anti-crime measures loom. It might also be worth mentioning that gun owners and beat police officers largely understand that they are allies in law and order and not political foes, another secret hidden by the anti-gun movements. We then went on to discuss how many of the bigger government programs can be unwound by increasing the armed citizen as commonplace. I have often mentioned that this is really ought to be one of the planks in the new GOP Platform, how the unbiquitous armed citizen can unwind many costly programs of bigger government. The real news is, of course, that the message of such liberty in citizen authority gets out and inspires tens of millions of Americans to become re-involved in their own self-rule. The armed citizen is key to this. Right now, we are losing the self in self-rule to the point where we are becoming increasingly ruled, period. The armed citizen plays an important role in ordinarily keeping many unwelcome and go-nowhere costly programs at bay and officials know this. States affirming the armed citizen know it as well as those who oppose the armed citizen. If America is going to work the way the Founders crafted and declared it, we must see the repeal of all gun laws first. If you believe that the Second Amendment blocks tyranny, you can see it in operation by how the armed citizen discredits the very need for so many stupid anti-crime programs. Hence, gun control to push that safeguard aside. Gun control doesn’t stop crime, it grows it such that the Second Amendment’s function is neutralized. Tyranny — what some people are experiencing as bigger government with no choices left — thrives in defiance of the electorate. Understand that we are not talking about crime detection and administration of justice, but the pre-emptive gun bans and unreasonable — and illegal — restrictions which destroy families at the hands of thugs by way of destroying our very resolve to resist crime.   Gun control thrives the way our future health care will thrive: it thrives at the expense of the electorate by dint of one single function: it does nothing to make things better, but blocks all exits for anyone to be independent of them to do better for himself. This is how both health care and gun control destroy freedom and create utter dependency --- another word for Tyranny. Such mandated plans discourage and even punish your independence to do better than officials can do for you. The T-word of today is dependency to the exclusion of all choice. Ten minutes before I was scheduled, Chris hosted popular liberty writer and liberty speaker Gerard Valentino, and his upcoming liberty talk May 30, 2009 booked for Central Park Gazebo, Mansfield, Ohio. Contact Bonnie, brickhousefarm at neo.rr.com


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John Longenecker -- Bio and Archives

John Longenecker is an author of Safe Streets In The Nationwide Concealed Carry Of Handguns – Meeting Dependency And Violent Crime With American Spirit, Independence, And Citizen Authority [CONTRAST MEDIA PRESS].  Safer Streets Newsletter.


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