John Longenecker

Guns on campus mean safer campuses 2011

Today's Safer Streets Newsletter features guest contributors David Codrea, Dr. Laura Schlessinger, and Dennis Prager joining me. Opt-in to my Newsletter here.

The second amendment after the election

My core message to non-gun owners is that the health of the second amendment is the primary indicator of the overall health of the nation. 



Which gun laws to repeal first, Part II

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Safer Streets 2010: Which gun laws to repeal first?

In my Safer Streets Newsletter, I'm posting how and why we need to talk to non-gun owners before the election. I'm joined today by fellow liberty writers David Codrea, our friends at the Tenth Amendment Center again and Michelle Malkin. You can opt-in to the Newsletter here.

McDonald, gun ownership, and the non-violent restoration of safer streets

Safer streets is a confirmation of a healthy self-rule. When we have a healthy self-determinative relationship with our public servants, safer streets will follow. The less violence goal of safer streets will not come as long as officials presume to be smarter than the electorate and quarrel with the people.

McDonald, gun ownership, and the non-violent restoration of safer streets

In Part I, I wrote about the spiritual reawakening of Independence and the epiphany that Independence itself serves to discredit government programs which operate as a poor substitute for the armed citizen. I used the word ‘impeaches’ for those boondoggle programs.

McDonald, gun ownership, and the non-violent restoration of safer streets

Since McDonald v. Chicago, wherein the Supreme Court incorporated the second amendment for all fifty states, you might expect to see some affirmation also within the electorate of the United States. Even though private gun ownership has swelled recently from around 80 million to more like 90 million, I would expect to see an even greater increase in acquiring firearms. This would be an expression of confidence in self and less in government.

Second amendment as a 2010 stumping issue, Part II.

We’re not at safer streets yet. We’re not even close as long as we have unreasonable gun laws. We’ll have unreasonable gun laws as long as public servants loathe our independence of them.

The second amendment as a 2010 stumping issue, Part I.

Safer streets will come with sovereignty, and they will bring with them safer freedoms, safer families and safer futures. These will come only from the repeal of gun laws as a major obstacle to them and as a vanguard for the boondoggles which make major city streets so unsafe to begin with. Repeal all gun laws, and you're halfway home to safer streets. You're halfway in one stroke because you have reversed the direction of the politics. The rest is simple. 


The health of the second amendment is the health of the nation

Speaking of Health Care Reform, why don’t we begin with the condition of the second amendment? The health of the second amendment is the primary indicator of the overall health of the nation. 


Gun control nuts are becoming suicidal

More and more editorials outside the second amendment community are taking the position of praising Starbucks for standing their ground against the gun control bully The Brady Center For the Prevention of Handgun Violence, a non-profit. This is most significant.

Safer Streets 2010: Lady Liberty Is Partisan, Part III.

Over the past several months, gun control advocacy has not gone underground; it never left the scene in spite of reports to the contrary. Op-ed pieces from editorial boards urging one-gun-a-month laws and other unwelcome interferences with how you run your home can be found daily. But when partisanship is castigated by exiting officials, it's silly to believe that gun control hasn't been partisan, isn't it?


Safer Streets 2010: Lady Liberty is Partisan

And it’s about time somebody said it with pride and dignity.

Safer Streets 2010: When will colleges be safer, Part II

In fact, when will the nation be safer? Perhaps in November.

When gun owners and liberty purists say that you and you alone are responsible for your own safety, we are saying several things. Personal safety, your own legal authority to act, and a general protection of self-rule thereby.



Safer Streets 2010: I don’t like gun violence anymore than Starbucks does

When it comes to gun control, the issue has been intentionally misframed by the left. Not surprising, since the left misframes gun control in every country it touches. When we see the anti-gun activist articles, speeches, press releases and interviews, they seem to consistently talk about gun violence. Every day, I scan the news items and I see the same old cliches: ‘gun violence'.

Safer Streets 2010: How many guns are enough?

Leftists are always limiting freedoms. Our Constitution limits only one thing: Government powers, and in doing so, affirms freedom. Sometimes there aren't two sides to an issue when it comes to liberty. As if there were two sides to safer streets, leftists tend to ask provocative questions which wind up only provoking people, especially free Americans. They ask irritating questions as if they're crafted to vex, as if they have no answer, and as if the question itself were an accusation. One of the best ways to short-circuit a liberal is to take that question in front of others such as an audience and then answer it.

Safer Streets 2010: Do we have a real right to ‘bear arms’?

In a word, Yes. The idea was straightforward. 130 years before a national guard was even contemplated, and several generations before an organized police force emerged, the Militia was the force which protected every farm and family. The beauty of the Militia then and now was and is that the person who had the most to lose, the farmer and private land owner, had at hand a weapon which was battery ready. This was because there simply was no one else. Today, there is also no one else.

Safer Streets 2010: The New Liberty Platform

Will 2010 see the emergence of a whole new Liberty Platform from Libertarians, Conservatives and Independents?

Safer Streets 2010: Why the second amendment in a 2010 liberty platform?

The success of the plan to retake Congress, America’s states and our major cities will rest on two important things;

1. does the crop of candidates read the American people right? Do the candidates understand what we want in freedom, sovereignty and independence from our very own public servants, and;
2. are those candidates of the mettle to bring personal and professional integrity to office in order to succeed?

Safer Streets 2010: Getting rid of Political Correctness first

College violence prevention centers and the interests of adult students are working at cross purposes. This is no accident. Yesterday's Hippies dominate the landscape in 2010 campus and workplace and show simple giveaways, or tells: the first tell is the idea - a confession - that they hate to think that things have resorted to arming students or teachers, and the second tell is their definition of what is survival in the very environment they created. Both are irrational and self-destructive.