Gun Lobby Outvotes D.C, Part II: The Hell of consequences.

March 10, 8:04 AMLA Gun Rights ExaminerJohn Longenecker

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In Part I, I wrote that there are certain incongruities of elitism when officials begin to demand rights after they have established a record of disrespecting the rights of constituents. The District of Columbia is asking for a Vote in Congress. Have they shown they respect who they work for? No, they haven’t.

Aside from Potomac Fever, that infection that gives officials a sense of entitlement and erases all self-awareness, there is little excuse for the audacity of asking for something one denies others. Having said that, let’s look at another aspect of why constituents and Congress impose the condition of the District’s dropping its gun ban before being given a Vote.

The whole idea is not to get more guns on the street, but to get more integrity in office, getting the District in line with compliance with who is really in charge, namely the citizens. D.C. has a record of defying citizen authority on the idea of what’re-ya-gonna-do-about-it politics. When the people show just what they do about it, as in prevailing in Heller v. D.C, the Supreme Court’s overturning of the District’s gun ban, officials continue to defy the law by skirting the ruling and make it so hard to register guns or other demands of constituents. This is absolute defiance not only of the Supreme Court, but defiance of the sovereign, and it this which is taken to task by examining their need for a Vote. It may be very smart to deny it.

This is significant, because what is wrong with the entire country at this time is defiance of the sovereign, and that’s you and me. For the first time in a long time, someone is able to say No to abusive officials who defy law and vex constituents. This kind of political leverage is a good answer to the political defiance of the people.

In 2009, we are seeing more and more defiance of law and of constituents and yet heads do not roll. We have a major banking scandal, but heads do not roll. Some are being recalled, as in California, for their incompetence and lack of understanding, and it’s a start. But as long as there are no consequences, officials see no ethical, moral or legal reason to cooperate. There is no Hell of it all in consequences.

Are Washingtonians going to suffer from this delay? I don’t know, but we do know the officials are, and that’s the Hell of it when officials defy the law and the people can leverage them to keep them in line. What America needs is to apply this leverage.

Gun bans serve only one purpose; to disarm the supreme authority of this country. Tyranny was on the mind of the Founding Fathers, and so they declared that the citizens are supreme authority from then on, supreme authority. But in 2009, abuses of process are preceded by allowing crime to grow in disarmed areas, defying that supreme authority. As crime grows, it furnishes excuses for more and more restraints, and the only people to obey restraints are the sovereign law-abiding. The Sovereign of the nation.

D.C. is the murder capital of the nation, and not by accident of good intentions, but by utter defiance of the law. This is not so much a question of what they understand as it is a question of professional integrity and simply obeying the law, whether they agree or not. The District of Columbia must not get a Vote until they can prove they recognize – like it or not – who is servant and who is sovereign. Sometimes, due process says Yes, sometimes due process says No. Right now, they’re getting due process, not the abuse of process they deliver, and it’s No until they comply with the law. Being denied a Vote for not respecting the sovereign is and ought to have its own hell of it.

Who knows: it could inspire constituents to a whole new national movement of intolerance for defiance of the law.

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John Longenecker is author of Safe Streets In The Nationwide Concealed Carry Of Handguns — Meeting Dependency And Violent Crime With American Spirit, Independence, And Citizen Authority. Safe Streets is the only gun book appearing in the Dr. Laura Schlessinger family book catalog.