Safer Steets 101: The Second Amendment wasn't written for us.

October 14, 10:13 AMLA Gun Rights ExaminerJohn Longenecker

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October 13, 2009 saw remarks made by Nha Huyng for the Collegian Online, a paper at the University of Tulsa. Nha Huyng titled the piece, Concealed carry thwarts educational goals.

Actually, concealed carry of handguns on campus enhances educational goals, not only in protecting students, but in the concept of Independence, the kind you have as an adult. Nha Huyng obviously endorses dependency on others, which is counter to learning anything, or becoming an adult.

Let’s take a look at what Nha Huyng has learned so far: "Chances are, if students are allowed to carry concealed firearms, they will not take the time and effort to train themselves and would cause damage to themselves and others.

Also, college students are susceptible to mental illness. Most disorders emerge when people are in their twenties since it is the time when loneliness, disillusion, financial difficulty and overwhelming responsibility are compounded."

Thank you, Doctor.

When we talk about guns on campus, we already have a model which impeaches Nha Huyng’s line of thought, namely other campuses where students are armed and have been for years now (e.g. Utah and Colorado, not to mention Arizona locales). Although we know how our kids might miss mom and dad when far away and perhaps even imbibe on campus, or even over-indulge at times, we still see a great deal of crime on campus which becomes successful thanks to encouragement not to resist. Some are killed for lack of awareness or any ability to resist at all. Surprise is a major element in completed acts of violence, and stalking is still rather common. What do you do when violence prevention fails and you are confronted by grave danger? It isn’t a case of mental illness in being armed, it is a case of being decerebrate in denying one this right to fight back.

Explaining the second amendment is easy: for Americans who have an apprehension or loathing for adult responsibility, understanding it is hard. Sometimes, today’s college students do not want to understand, or haven’t the critical analysis skills to question the one-sided content they’re handed. How many know, for instance that the Ku Klux Klan was entirely democrats and not republicans? Where’s the critical thinking that should find a great disparity between the party of Lincoln who worked to free the slaves and those who wore white hoods to keep owning them? Kids in school – old enough to vote - never saw a disparity with this hate speech against conservatives who are against slavery? Many writers have documented the origins and history of the Ku Klux Klan, writers such as Michael Zak and Bob Parks who come to mind. The makeup of the Ku Klux Klan is the party now teaching our kids in 2009.

In short, the second amendment was not written for us, it was written for officials. You see, as a free people – as a people who defeated tyranny of the Crown of England – we already knew our human rights and civil rights, and didn’t need to be told. Officials, on the other hand, do need to be told. Simple. Students need to be told and are not told. By the party who doesn’t want them to know. If the liberty purists ran education content, students would better understand their heritage of authority and independence from their servants.

Oklahoma is a state of independent persons mostly, from my contacts there, one of whom is State Senator Randy Brogdon. His state has filed a petition invoking the Tenth Amendment in order to get out from under the feds who are going too far in governance. When I interviewed Senator Brogdon on this several months ago, I asked point blank about the armed citizen, and discovered that the armed citizen is high on the list of issues in invoking state sovereignty. At last count, thirty-seven states have taken the Tenth.

Please take note that as Liberals seek to ridicule freedom movements around the country, Sovereignty is high on their list of targets. For Liberals, the armed citizen is attacked as futile, and sovereignty as passé. You can find this in the last sentence of Nha Huyng’s piece, "We need to get over our obsession with individual rights and be more sensible regarding campus safety."

"Well, there you go again." – Ronald Reagan. If you really want campus safety, then you recognize the rights and legal authority of your adult fellows. Because if you don’t, then you grant freedom to murderers. How’s that working out for you?

Today, we see far, far too much gun control and a void in the ability of the individual to act in resisting violence. The government then tries to fill this void by substituting billion-dollar policies for your sovereign authority to act in time of violence, and it spreads this formula into other areas. Been going on for generations this way.

The repeal of all gun laws will impeach all of the programs the American People are now experiencing as outrageous in a nation of what is supposed to be self-rule. Repealing gun laws is a rather uncomplicated path back home under due process. All it takes is knowledge of your own authority and guts. How much do you really want to get back to safer streets?

2010 is closer than you think. If the Republicans, the Independents and the Libertarians believe they can unwind everything the left is doing today, you’d better get on your horse and start unwinding now. Some of it won’t be as easy to reverse then as it is today. Health care reform won't be reversible at all.

Education content will be another item on the list to unwind and rebuild for heritage and independence from servants.

2010 candidates: best get started.

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The second amendment is the primary indicator of the overall health --- and mental health --- of the nation. Hear John Longenecker’s interview with Lou Dobbs as a free bonus when you buy the e-book edition of Safe Streets In The Nationwide Concealed Carry Of Handguns online and get free Bonus #2, an essay on gun control and college violence prevention centers.