Because gun control was the very first departure from legal authority's limitations on government and the first abuse of due process in this country, it has been a more-than-satisfactory proof that the electorate will tolerate a great deal of abuse from her servants. Whether you believe it or not, the servants believe it. They then proceed accordingly so that the bureaucracy grows to the size it is today. Servants have confidence you can't do much about it.
For this reason that gun control is an infrastructure's reinforcement bar of government size, the new Congress needs to repeal gun laws if it is to be taken seriously at all as reducing big government.
I'll say it again: incoming Congress needs to repeal gun control as an underpinning of all immensity of bureaucracy, and needs to do it our way or it won't work at all to reduce the size of government. Put another way, officials do not see freedom as we see freedom: part of the concept of independence is that we are free from dependency on them, even Republicans. This is hard for officials to accept, right, left or middle.
They need us more than we need them.
The repeal of gun control will take a great many millions of people out from under a dependency on public servants and in various corners not even related to second amendment. This will translate into a resurgence of conservative values as a safeguard of the United States as voters begin to re-examine costly programs with a new confidence and renewed, recognized sovereign authority. Cutting here and there will be easier with voter support. Independence will take the place of programs. Charity would be one such example.
You see, what has been hidden by gun control and the presumption that government ought to handle your safety is your Independence. For more, see Safer Streets 2010, the e-book, the e-version of my hardcover edition. This assumption goes to other areas, where statists utilize it very well to create new predatory programs which sound reasonable because they continue to fit those assumptions. Where talkradio shines the light of day on these, the picture is complete when we see the underpinning of them all: the idea that you cannot meet and manage violent crime. Take away guns, take away your right, take away your knowledge of your authority to act and it sure looks like people cannot handle violent crime, doesn't it?
The idea that you cannot meet and manage an encounter with violence is then cloned into the assumption that you cannot manage anything on your own. Hence, crime is often cited as cause to create tons of new programs. Your authority to act in the absence of police is concealed from you, even punished as anti-government. [Try adding second amendment content into a college campus Violence Prevention seminar.]
An example of how this assumption is cloned further is the political abuse of Militia, the practice of preparedness in the awareness of limitations of government assets and response. Militias are the embodiment of preparedness, survival and independence in time of disaster, and statists don't like to share credit.
Cloning of the idea that you can't manage anything then becomes a staple of governance. Will the incoming Republicans reverse this and give people a little credit?
Congress as incoming public servants need to take our word for it and stop stubbornly seeing our independence as being intact, safe, and unaffected and worst of all, unimportant. Believe me, our independence in this country is diminished and undermined by Republicans who do not take our word for things (being out of touch). If Republicans are serious about reducing the size of government, they need to see freedom as we see freedom, and see the solution as we see it. Republicans need to stop buddying up with colleagues in ridiculing the people as the sovereign.
The repeal of all gun laws must be the first step in reducing the size of government by removing the underpinnings of eliminating the people from their self-rule as a governance formula. The rest – including the repeal of healthcare reform – will be easier once the dignity and authority of the people is recognized by the public servants.
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Every single example of criminal shootings gives testimony to the failure of gun control. These are the last people to entrust with your safety. For more, see Safer Streets 2010, the August, 2010 edition of John's 2006 hardcover book.
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Washington is not controlled by "we the people" or any of the processes we think we use to control them. Your votes only richochet around inside the box they built for you before you were even born. It'll take a revolution to open that box and let us all out.
As for guns, I'd rather address the root problems that make people feel a need to carry one. Mainly poverty. Maybe we could peel a couple hundred billion off the defense budget and take care of business right here at home for a change?
A well armed populace is the ONLY thing keeping this country from becoming a facist state. We still have the ability to march on Washington and seize control from a rotten government.
That window, is just about to close. Already has for England. Civilians were stripped of their firearms for the most part and are now defenseless against their own government.
Don't think it can't happen here.
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I have no hope for those we elect. It seems that immediatly after their election they forget where they come from and who elected them. I have never seen them give away any power they have when they are elected. My only hope is to fight to forestall what is natural for an elected official. Even conceal carry, although it kind of was a step forward, it still requires licensure and payment to enjoy a natural and constitutional right. We need to continue to fight as it goes against the grain of freedom loving Americans to surrender. We need to be patient just like the Socialists, even though each step we take forward costs us 4 steps back.
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