Gun control is freedom control.

November 1, 8:54 AMLA Gun Rights ExaminerJohn Longenecker

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New cases before the supreme court and lower courts will decide not only gun control, but total freedom control in the United States. Who has control of our freedom: the individual or the state? Gun control changes conditions such that the state intervenes. The lie is that the state is best for the job.
It is not.

Gun owners are aware that there has always been a connection between gun laws and how other laws are forced on people. You might say, how officials are emboldened by how gun owners react or not. Gun owners are among the most tolerant and law abiding of citizens, and if you can ram something down our throats, the rest of America is easy prey for more. In vociferously resisting such abuses, gun owners are not anti-government, but believers in due process in government: the complaint of gun owners is that we are denied due process, and after us, so is the rest of the country.

Gun Rights Examiners and other experts including increasingly popular radio shows [such as Firearms Forum on Townhall affiliate WHK/1420 AM Sunday nights, or Tom Gresham's Gun Talk in syndication, orLive Fire with host Larry Pratt, or the NRANews.com with Cam and Company] have been trying to reach non-gun owners on the connection of the second amendment to all our freedoms, from parenting to education content to zero-tolerance policies to no-fault divorce and same-sex marriage. The idea is that how gun control goes, so goes the nation, with the formula of getting it past gun owners first, then on to the rest of the country for what will be tolerated. Probably like never before a setback decision on gun rights (citizen rights, actually) will show the connection of gun rights to all other laymen rights almost as if they were hardwired and energized with high voltage. Instant burn-out.

It could prove to be a disaster because the armed citizen had been able to stop tyranny and abuses of powers by dint of showing how unnecessary such tyrannical programs have been prior to the armed citizen's being taken out of the equation. Take away the lethal force of the citizen to meet and stop violence in personna, and you can unwind all rights by imposing programs that erase other safeguards as well and substitute more statist political triumphs. On the other hand, repeal all gun control and you unwind those abusive programs by re-filling the crime-fighting void again with citizen authority and rejecting the authority of the state.

This is how all freedoms are in the balance and how programs seemingly unrelated to guns and gun control are in fact related.

It is my analysis that safer streets must come first before we can expect any smaller government. This means the repeal of all gun control first so that real crime fighting can involve the community and not exclude them to their detriment. This inclusion then discredits the need for billions in costly anything-but-guns programs which do not do the job as well as the armed citizen can and does. All of the harassment of the citizen is a formula of dismantling our working safeguards and the substitution of the state in our place.

Remember that gun control does not control guns, it controls only Independence to act in time of violence.

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