John Longenecker

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.

Should Canadian gun registration be repealed entirely?

The recent comments about Canadian gun registration have been on topic and illuminating. It shows how a people will find their way come what may, and where self-rule is the way of life, enforcing freedom over the powers of the state means growth on so many levels - whoever the state may be.

Guns on campus and violence prevention centers

Part II: When we talk about violence prevention on campus or workplace, we are talking about a first and second half of the endeavor. The first half has always been anticipation, or awareness. This is the alertness in situations, danger avoidance, profiling, and the recognition of early warning signs or behaviors of individuals. It works.

Guns on campus and violence prevention centers

When bureaucrats consult other bureaucrats, they intentionally exclude one of the greatest allies they can ever find: citizens who have found a solution that works.

Armed Citizens for 2010 candidates and business

One of the issues missing from the 2010 platform for conservatives, libertarians and independents is how our authority is backed as the sovereign under our system of self-rule. In the U.S., the government is not the sovereign, the people are the sovereign. As with all nations, the sovereign has a monopoly on all lethal force. This includes civilian oversight of the military, supervision of law enforcement, the right to self-defense, defense of another, and powers of citizen arrest.

Safer streets and my mother’s hat pin.

Now that the RNC is taking its job seriously, the citizen’s legal independence from her public servants, the way constituents need them. One of the greatest fears of a free people is that their voices are not heard or worse, ignored; the Republicans lost Congress for that at the top of the list. Safer streets is one of those most parsimonious goals where all you really need to do is get out of the way, a conservative value. The answer is not more guns, it is more official respect for the liberty and the citizen authority of the people in every community. Note that I didn’t say civilian authority, I said citizen authority.

Lethal Logic, Exploding The Myths That Paralyze American Gun Policy

Lethal Logic, Exploding The Myths That Paralyze American Gun Policy. (Potomac Press, $29.95) by Dennis A. Henigan. America should never even have a gun policy any more than it should have a policy in favor of owning another human being for neighborhood safety. This is because some things in our way of life and law are long settled.

Southern California Churches Affirm Concealed Carry Of Congregants

The genius of concealed carry of handguns is that would-be murderers remain uncertain as to who is armed and who isn’t. You never know if the target is armed with lethal force, and more to the point, how practiced at being alert and prepared they are to resist seriously. Serious-minded preparedness is everything in fighting crime, because crime is not fought by after-the-fact policies, it is fought by during-the-fact authority. Crime is not fought with programs, it may be caught there, but it's not really fought there. 

This is truth for everyone interested in being as safe as they can be from future violence, because it comes to the realization of specific unalterable realities: you’re on your own.

Sovereignty 101: Why the Second Amendment is absolute, the short version.

As I have posted over the years, the Founders of this country defeated abuse of process as much as they defeated an army and a single person as the Sovereign. They learned from misery and tyranny what NOT to do. One thing was within their power in how to leave tyranny behind, and that was to make certain things absolute. All they need do was declare it at the nation’s inception, and they did; It rests in the words of art shall not be infringed. How’s that for Original intent?

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.

Who do you trust? Who can you trust next election?

Now the question has some meaning, since the Republicans seem to have woken up and discovered what has happened to them.