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?
Dependency is the foe of everything we stand for. It is the life blood of tyranny. In a people's independence from their servants, tyranny cannot thrive. If servants believe that their tyranny can thrive, it will be bold and brazen, and will do the very same things from country to country. Gun control is one of the first things an abusing officialdom will impose; this upsets the equilibrium of the relationship both politically and societally as crime then grows for lack of resistance. Tyranny then claims a mandate in this void, and then, when it fails as it has, further mandates until all independence is lost.
Independence from our very own public servants needs to be nailed down as a plank on the liberty platform for 2010 (if there is going to be one) and the repeal of gun laws must be the first item on the agenda. The repeal of gun laws will make the electorate more independent, and partisan candidates – Libertarian, Independent and Conservative – will have no fear of this. It will be the secret of their success for generations. They will be embraced.
Since forever, the Republicans have seen guns as unseemly and belligerent. They have said little in understanding what the Second Amendment is about. It might be best to go with Libertarians, Conservatives and Independents in 2010.
Only the repeal of gun laws will reflect that understanding the way we need them to understand it. Only boldly stumping on this will reflect the way we need them to reflect it. And only carrying it out will really respect our independence of them and be good for the country.
The rest will take care of itself in a healthier alliance between the government and the governed. In this healthy equilibrium, there is no room for government's ‘competing' with the private sector in anything; there is only making room in getting out of the way. That would be partisan. Lady Liberty is partisan that way.
No, there isn't anything wrong with partisanship; it's a matter of integrity to admit it and a lack of integrity to deny it. The TEA Party goers [Taxed Enough Already] are partisan in the most patriotic sense possible: they are for law and order, they are for country first, which is for citizen authority and supremacy over our own public servants always, and they are honest about it. These are people with one of the worst attributes a politician can imagine: due process, sovereign authority, and follow-through. (It’s that due process follow through that gets ya!)
It is essential – and it is very good advice – for 2010 Libertarian, Conservative and Independent candidates to stump on second amendment interests for the nation. This would mean the repeal of gun laws. I would urge their contacting private gun owners and not colleagues. You don't work for colleagues. With 90 million adult gun owners in America, you'd be working for gun owners and their families. It's time to acknowledge roughly 90 million such households as a reflection of how candidates really understand what guns are really all about in this country and thereby their duty and office.
And how the second amendment then reflects the health of the nation.
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.
