Gun control in this country is a conclusive sign that the people here are not in control. In our nation of self-rule, we deal with officials who quarrel with our authority. They back their quarrel with force.
The world has only a few free peoples. Many nations are socialized, even tyrannized and brutalized. They do not have a constitution like the one we have, where we are the sovereign. Other nations are unable to say what we had said generations ago, that we are the ultimate lawmakers in our country, that we are the sovereign, and that our government is our servant. The second amendment is the lethal force which backs our sovereignty and we hand out or delegate authority to our servants to do the jobs we hire them to do. We do this without ever giving up any of our own sovereign authority. The quarrel is that we are not the sovereign.
Half of the problem of educating the electorate is in overcoming the idea that 2A is for individual self-defense, which explains why the anti-gun idiots try to rub our noses in crime such as ambushes or shootouts with the Army. It is why anti-gun activists cite police and national guard and other claims of which they really have no knowledge. As long as you think the second amendment ends with personal self-defense, you are missing out on how you as a gun owner or as a non-gun owner head of household really run this country.
The key is to educate the electorate in precisely how 2A affects them today and how gun control is related to banking scandals, climate tyranny and other abuses all Americans are now facing. They don't yet see a connection in the unreasonable boldness which officials have learned from gun control; make that connection and you have real progress. The light bulb goes on. Control by the electorate can return to the electorate. At this hour, the electorate is not in control of much of anything.
This is in part why there is no such thing as sensible gun laws. Any regulation of the second amendment is a direct assault on the lethal force which backs our authority as the sovereign. Every single gun law is a challenge to our sovereignty. Since we are the sovereign, there is no such thing as a sensible gun law.
The gunnies have been more patient and more tolerant than any other corner of our society and purely out of appreciation of due process. But when due process is abused, then we have another condition, and that is that the people are no longer in control, but the servants are. This affects everyone, gun owner or not. This is incompatible with liberty. Gun control has of course circumvented due process, and it opens the floodgates – as foreseen – for other abuses.
Not everyone needs to own a gun, but everyone needs to be free to choose the spirit and the means of refusing to be a victim. This nation already possesses the authority to refuse to be a victim of its own public servants. The only reason the public servants are so bold is because they believe they don't have to listen to the electorate. They learned that from gun control. The abuse of due process was learned from gun control.
You could call gun control blood in the water or even the chase reflex, but it's still a trigger for predators to move in.
It is because predators know weakness when they see it. Pacifists will praise it as Peace. Liberals will call it common sense. Predators will call it necessity while they move in. The tolerance for gun control was the first signal to statists that they could move on the U.S. in confidence and loot the country.
Culturally and inter-culturally, weakness is offensive. In many cultures, strength is admirable. It is dignified. You could even be obnoxious and not even liked, but if it's viewed as strength, it is respected.
We were respected once . . .
2010 is a chance to regain that strength and respect.
The founders knew that the sovereignty of the citizenry would be challenged by our own public servants more than by any other entity in the world. They knew.
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I concur 100%. It is past time for the states to form their own militias as they did before the civil war.
I am now convinced the progressives, who began their plans to chance our democratic republic into a socialistic republic when they took over the Ivy league universities, which were created to train pastors, will not give up without a fight. With both houses of congress and the president in their control, they have become bold in changing our republic into their dream.
The Second Amendment must be preserved. We must not allow it to be taken from us, and we must preserve it under the authority of it, if necessary.
There is no need for 'Militias' [plural]: we already have one big one numbering about 90 million members, speaking in general terms.
Progressives began generations ago in presiding over continuing crisies rather than prosperity. Where some differ with this, you see prosperity, more gun owners and less crime. Major cities are the example of the opposite, this governing by crisis. It's an old formula.
The bad news is that the majority of American citizens are not even registered to vote. Of those registered, the majority don't bother to show up on election day. Of those who show up, the majority haven't bothered to pay any attention to the issues being decided until well after Labor Day, go into the booth and play "multiple choice" with their ballots, then leave feeling good that they did something important. Its hard for such "sheeple" to be in charge of anything.
The good news is that in comparison to the rest of America, gun owners are far more motivated and informed participants who shape elections in far greater ways than their numbers would suggest. That's why NRA was rated the most influential lobbying group with only 4 million members, ahead of second place AARP with 35 million.
We put our money behind our beliefs and show up on election day. Politicians know they mess with us at their peril.
Sometimes I reread H. Beam Piper's "Lone Star Planet" (available free online from Guttenberg Project) and sigh, "If only." I know Piper did it as a joke, and I doubt if it could work for real, but still.
"The Second Amendment must be preserved."
Not necessarily. But the spirit and practical application of it must be.
I once heard a very wise man sum-up this unprecedented power grab pretty well, "hopefully we'll be able to preserve the second amendment from these statists. But if our worst fears are realised and confiscation orders are issued by this government then I will have no choice but to turn over my arms. I will however, give them my ammo first....all of it.....one bullet at a time!!"
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it’s natural manure."
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