Gun Control and subsequent frauds in politics.

November 5, 8:14 AMLA Gun Rights ExaminerJohn Longenecker

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Governance in this country is really nothing more than service to the electorate. We govern ourselves by way of executives we hire to do things for us on our authority, and it is nothing more. It is not any greater wisdom of theirs, it is not greater information, and it is not greater knowledge. It is in other countries, but not here.

Public servants operate in the United States under supervision and consent; ours. They do not supervise us, we supervise them. When they squawk about this, we have an indicator of a real problem, and more problems to come. Their refusal to honor the wishes and sometimes demands of the electorate signals their intention to rule us and not the other way around.

Some of the greatest frauds in governing the U.S. comes from the servants' practice of insistence on their ideas and defiance of the electorate on our ideas in their what're-ya-gonna-do-about-it attitude. Well, what we do about it is due process and follow-through, but it begins first with understanding that these people depend heavily on an ignorance of civics and of our constitution.

I want to refer you to a perfect example of how the second amendment serves all of America, whether you are a gun owner or not. Please register for the Tenth Amendment Newsletter for a very provocative piece on Civics as a solution to what is happening to us. It's a good personal story, and a great place for us to start in understanding what to do about all of this abuse.

Part of the problem in supervising recalcitrant and stubborn officials is in an ignorance of the true power and authority of the electorate; one of those is in how the second amendment operates in keeping us free from tyranny. Yes, the T-word. Understanding our own civics is what is at the heart of self-rule the way the founders declared it all after they escaped tyranny.

Without knowledge of civics and of the supremacy of the electorate over officials, and without a values system of knowing who properly supervises whom, a host of boondoggles has been unloaded on us. Who gets to say? We do, and no one else.

The fraud occurs when our authority is obscured by bluff, bogus urgency, hard-sell pressure, and other unethical tactics. These come not only from officials, but their minions. Then it is all cemented by abusive attitudes, silence, defiance of investigations and inquiry, and even the Vote.

The result is seen in gun control first before other frauds are crafted. Gun control itself is a fraud, as it claims to fight crime, but actually grows it. First, you create a crisis of violent crime and concentrate on shootings while ignoring other violence. Forget that it's largely crime-on-crime shootings, and forget that a great deal of crime has been stopped by armed citizens. This creates a void in how violence is really best handled and it also creates a real payday for anti-crime measures to develop. Next, still in crises, government works to fill this void with itself, but it never quite does the job nearly as well as the armed citizen. Still, it insists on gun control, and even backs its nonsense with police powers to really teach you a lesson: don't fight back. We've got other things coming, and we don't want you resisting those, either!

Alright, now what? Well, if this works on gun owners and keeps crisis alive, it'll work in other areas of governance in other political topics not even related to gun control. The result is electronic stalking, cameras on every corner, Pass ID and other nonsense, gun bans, bolder and bolder ludicrous programs, changes in law enforcement assets and funding, early release of felons (partly due to overcrowding, partly due to inability to medically treat prisoners) and other solutions to problems which problems should never exist in a nation of self-governance.

The key to the entire formula is to remove working safeguards first against the better judgment of the electorate. It reminds me of the passenger who punches a hole in the life raft just so he can sell you buckets. He won't tell you where the hole is nor how it got there, but he'll sell you a bucket to bail out the water with.

Some states see this as a fraud, and have resolved to invoke the Tenth Amendment in getting out from under this T-word. As I have reported, banning gun control is high on their list, since they see the connection as clearly as I do. No more gun control. It gets our constituents killed and maimed. The police cannot be everywhere, and police have no duty to protect individuals from the criminal acts of others anyway, but a citizen is everywhere, and if that citizen is armed with both lethal force and citizen authority (as is hidden from most), then our costs can go down as police and citizen work together (like before). Imagine what that does to the rapport between the government and the governed; imagine what it does to revenues. Imagine what it does for our freedoms.

But independence from public servants doesn't have the official payday of war chest, prestige or legacy the way crisis does.

Maybe it shouldn't.
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The second amendment isn't about guns, it's about carrying our own burdens in independence so the state will not substitute itself in our place everywhere. Available both Hardcover and now online as an e-book.