Read my March 1, 2009 piece on Examiner, "Why they take guns at all, with thanks to Paul Harvey, Patriot."
I want you to think of 2010. I want you to think of your family and I want you to think of gun control. When you think of guns, don't think of the harm they do, which numbers around 14,000 or so last year in the hands of persons who already are prohibited, think of the good they do in the hands of 2.5 million American citizens who stop a crime in progress every year. The other 300 million gun owners are not only lucky in not having to draw their weapons, but they are also not among those committing the violence in America.
When you think of gun control, then, think of how it is not the only policy or program adverse to your family, but the likely historical predecessor of all of them. This would include what is in store for us in 2010, and it's not smaller government.
And when you think of big government, I want you to think about what is weaponized and how our freedom is taken little by little in the name of gun control and other controls we are beginning to see as suspicious and bogus. You don't need to be a gun owner to see how big government is getting around to everyone as predicted. When you check out my thanks to Paul Harvey, please take note of the remarks which summarize a keen new observation taking hold in America. It is about this bogus complaint from officials that they cannot in any way or any longer afford the government services... services we have declined and rejected over the years, services which were rammed down our throats. Demagoguery. Predatory demagoguery. Transfer of wealth. That's some nerve telling us is they can't afford services we had not wanted to begin with.
And this is as the heart of the second amendment. The concept is that when the sovereign is armed, crime is intimidated, not the citizen, and on their citizen authority, as an effective, authoritative force to be reckoned with, there is little need for silly government programs after all, programs which were alleged to fight crime, protect people and all sorts of crap.
We do not fight tyranny by shoot-outs with our own Army, the armed citizen fightz tyranny by showing how stupid, how unneeded, how predatory government programs really are in trying to take the p;lace of the armed citizen. It fails on gun control and in nearly every single program after it.
If you believe in personal independence by way of getting out from under officials and their stupid programs, if you believe they are wrong and greedy, if you believe they take powers not granted, if you believe in smaller government, then you believe in what is the second amendment. Independence.
The idea is that no one can take your place in a lot of things, and how ludicrous it is even to presume they can. Only the weak think that, the weak of freedom who are strong on dependency and the weak of character who prey on them.
Well, d-uh.
When it comes to 2010, don't let the predators in. You'll know them by their funny, unneeded programs, stupid solutions, baffling logic, and by their deafness.
The problem is in discerning who will really unwind those. And that's the rub.
Check this out from my March article: "The reason people are even ‘rounded up' at all is because being armed brings not only the power of the gun in independence, but the power of realization, the realization that one does not need as much from a government as the government would like to ‘give'. This kind of critical thinking is a threat to any government who wishes to rule over people more than serve the people, so they are ‘rounded up' and exterminated."
We call them tyrants in other countries around the world. Liberty purists think of them as useful case studies and warnings to free peoples. But these tyrants started out with thought police first as the gateway drug to gun control and then murder we hear about as civil war. It's not civil war over there, not when one side is entirely disarmed already.
Can't happen here? Only if we repeal all gun laws along with political correctness. These are two examples of programs which were never needed and which went against our better judgment.
What's needed is a return to critical analysis free from castigation backed by police powers. .. The realization that one does not need from government as much as the government would like to ‘give'.
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The second amendment is not about guns, it is about adult burdens and how we carry them so that government will not attempt to substitute itself for citizen power and authority. It begins with the very first burden. Safe Streets In The Nationwide Concealed Carry Of Handguns, (Hardcover), is now available online as an e-book.
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