John Longenecker

Safer Streets 2012: Guns on campus

I have written a great deal on guns on campus over the years. Let me summarize some of those articles here.

Safer Streets 2011: The Good Samaritans

With so many violent acts in America, what is under-reported is how intervention could have prevented the completion of those violent acts. This would be in spirit, in personal force, and involvement. These elements are missing from violence prevention programs as if they were useless. In truth, there are critical to the millions of reports annually from police around the country where citizens stop violence on their own. Though the lone wolf may act on his own or even have the backing of others behind him, he is still one person at one location. The Norwegian massacre the week of July 22nd struck a bombing and a shooting where the targets were known to be defenseless. Can an armed Good Samaritan stop a bombing? Can a citizen stop a terrorist act?

Ron Paul’s Citizens Protection Act of 2011, H.R. 2613.

There are more than 20,000 gun laws in the United States. Scholars, attorneys, activists and historians know that gun laws have not prevented violence; murder is already illegal, with or without a gun. Often time, murder is the primary charge and gun crimes are forgotten. Also, many murders are not solved. Gun laws do not impact these.

Safer Streets 2011: Militias and Mumbais

Anti-gun groups are quick to link Militia to state governments, but, as usual, they mislead the electorate. When the Supreme Court and lower courts grapple with the second amendment as a concept of state militia, they err. Still, many wins for the individual right were made possible by a greater adherence to Original Intent than ideas that the Document is a ‘living document’, that a militia must be a state entity, or that a militia is a hate group.

Safer Streets 2011: Attention all candidates for President

Conservative, independent and libertarian candidates running for President need to understand one value which resonates with voters; safer streets will be good evidence of a healthier self-rule. You won’t get safer streets viz-a-viz violent crime without a repeal of gun control.

Safer Streets 2011: How the second amendment means smaller government non-violently

For decades now, I have cleared my throat and articulated a comparison I call The CPR Corollary. It is a comparison of moral purpose and public interest between a CPR-trained society and an armed society. It also answers questions of trust.

Safer Streets 2011: Doctors probing for guns in the home misses the diagnosis

I answer doctors who oppose gun violence and I generally have a standard response by now. Since we’re talking about safety at the core of the discussion, it’s fair to say that their editorials and pleadings to reduce gun violence wind up killing the patient, that is, the disarmed community.

The Safer Streets Gun Owner Survey Results, Part II

As I mentioned last time, the Number One inference I drew from the responses was the personal positive attitude of gun owners who answered that they knew CPR [78%] and who also said why. If there is one thing to glean from this combined response, it is that these gun owners believe that their training in CPR is just as important as their training in how to handle a gun in armed self-defense. Without pulling too much out of this, it is clear from remarks that they see both as useful to the community and have self-expectations of duty in the absence of first responders. That 78% of the gun owners know CPR is a wonderful finding.

The Safer Streets Gun Owner Survey Results

The Safer Streets Gun Owner Survey runs throughout the month of April. Early results are beginning to level off and come to a halt. Anyone who wishes to take the survey can access it here. Firefox browser seems to work best.

California Capitol Police no substitute for armed assembly members

The wish of the California Assembly to be armed reminds me of college students who respectfully ask to be armed on campus. The students forgot how they do not need to ask permission, but – as constituents – instruct trustees.

Safer Streets 2011: Dodger Stadium to be safer?

Dodger Stadium has summoned past LAPD Chief William Bratton to supervise Security for Dodger Stadium in the wake of the beating of Paramedic Bryan Stow and others. But there are some elements which need to be examined in expectations. Not to cause trouble, but reasonable is reasonable.

Safer Streets 2011: How about Dodger Stadium?

Bureaucrats have a job to do, and they sometimes forget that they are to serve and not to rule in doing that job. Sometimes, they forget that they cannot be as inventive or as blasé as they might like. And sometimes, they can breed in the private sector and be subject to the same Potomac Fever symptoms as any public servant.

The identical purpose between the armed citizen and citizen CPR, mainstream values, and more

I’ll soon be launching a survey of all my readers and other gun owner-Americans around the nation. Readers of my Newsletter will receive the Survey this week and others need to give their permission if they would care to take the survey by opting in to the Newsletter.

Second amendment: Who should the Administration listen to?

The President has said that his Administration will meet with second amendment types on gun control. How do you proceed on the assumption that gun control is even a legitimate concept? Still, there is the opportunity to educate and find real reform.

There’s no such thing as common sense reform of gun laws.

President Obama has spoken over the weekend in a call for reform of gun laws. I concur with the President.

Guns on campus and the second amendment as a mainstream value

Whenever a college campus or workplace or general region considers affirming armed adults, there come objections from officials which rival those of the gun control organizations.

Egypt should have its own second amendment

Every new emerging and re-emerging nation should have its own second amendment so that its streets are safer not only today, but from now on.

Conservatives now reaching for gun control?

The liberals, we expect to be anti-gun. They want to grow government so they eliminate liberty's safeguards one by one and try to replace you with officials or some policy.

Safer Airlines 2011, maybe?

FOX News and others report that our TSA has confiscated firearms among other things in their passenger screening. On this morning's Bill Handel Show on KFI, Los Angeles, Handel ridiculed the idea of protesting airline safety groping by comparing how unreasonable it is to carry a gun onto an airplane as a fundamental right. Now you did it. 


Recommended reading after the election.

The Republicans are in office now, promising smaller government. Alright, what's our move? And, it's our move to make.