John Longenecker

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.

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

My Safer Streets Newsletter and Commentary before the mid-term election has guest contributors Dick Morris, David Codrea, Michelle Malkin, and CANADA FREE PRESS Publisher Judi McLeod. Register here to receive the newsletter.

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.