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.

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We need to wake up too, and discover what is happening to all of us. Too many of us sat out the election in protest, a very self-spiting move. Now you see what happens when you don’t take an interest in politics: politics takes an interest in you, anyway, to paraphrase Pericles. Now how do we undo it? The Republicans say they can undo what programs the Dems will do in the years ahead, but will they be able to undo the damage? Don’t know. We listen very carefully to the republican candidates and we instruct the candidates very carefully. How does this work when it comes to the Second Amendment? It better work, or the whole country will go Socialist. It hasn’t yet, not yet. There is a straight connection between our gun rights (or the gun rights in any nation) and the liberty of the people. In America, the electorate are the sovereign, not the government. This means that all gun laws are illegal laws, because they strive to disarm the sovereign of the lethal force which backs our authority. It is long overdue that Republicans utilize this to regain seats and be unafraid to say it. Not only are Democrats so brazen about new gun contro, but they are also dropping other clues as to how they plan on short-circuiting our path to redress of grievances. They even have a Microwave Active Denial System – a big Hot Gun on wheels – which they roll out for dispersing civilian crowds on U.S. soil. The Republicans will have to do as we say and not the other way around. They will have to do what the Dems do not, and that is listen, and not roll out any objections. I am not looking for new Republican Ideas as much as I am looking for Republicans to listen and to carry out our wishes. Nothing could say this better than their approach to gun control as a device to disarm the sovereign. The Republicans need to drop the idea that guns in the hands of the everyman is somehow unseemly or belligerent. They need to sit down and talk with liberty activist groups -- especially gun rights writers -- and to understand how inextricable the armed citizen is in a nation of self rule with all of our freedoms. For instance, I have discovered that many elected officials don’t even know that, in America, police have no duty to protect individuals from the criminal acts of others. Many officials don’t even know this! In fact, without being armed, as we have seen, dependency on agencies is a reliance to the detriment of the electorate, crime grows and becomes a crisis officials can all too easily utilize and point to in obtaining more funding. If the Republicans want to get elected to Congress, they will have to listen to constituents unlike the Democrats. The Republicans will have to appreciate that 80 million gun owners are adult constituents, and do not have to listen to a so-called gun lobby to comprehend or enunciate clearly how important the armed citizen is to any community and to the nation. If the Republicans really want to understand how to get a handle on crime – and how to respond to citizen interests in battling the so-called National ID Card, and other objectionable issues – they will have to comprehend the armed citizen liberty connection. They will have to sit down with liberty nuts to get back in touch with what is really important to tens of millions of voters. Our Independence from our own servants. Without addressing gun rights, without understanding them and making them a high priority of the interests of the sovereign, officials don’t even have a clue. Until they do, getting mad at the Democrats won’t be enough to get Republicans in office. John Longenecker is author of Meeting Dependency And Violent Crime With American Spirit, Independence, And Citizen Authority. It is the only gun book in the Dr. Laura family book catalog.