Gun owners: paranoid, or predicting accurately for generations?

March 31, 10:58 AMLA Gun Rights ExaminerJohn Longenecker

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Gun owners are not in love with their precious guns, we are in love with our precious rights. Gun owners and non-gun owners have much more in common than media would have you believe. We all want to live in freedom. Some of us can see the clouds forming, others cannot. Do you believe that once this scandal is over, more Americans will have the same vision as liberty purists have? Will they be made paranoid, or will they have vision?

It's easy to see how the predictions of the anti-gun crowd have never come true with the perspective of reflection, while the fears and apprehensions of liberty lovers have consistently come true over the last several generations, also on reflection. Liberty enthusiasts such as those likely to own guns and understand how the armed citizen and our liberty are connected can see with a very clear vision where the country is headed. It becomes very clear that anti-gun activists are not interested in safety, but taking of liberty and vexing citizen authority which stands in the way. It's that simple.

Paranoid?

Nowhere in the history of firearms has a nation been improved by surrendering its citizen armaments, but made worse with nothing to replace it. The "It-can't-happen-here" mentality will not see that it is happening here in the United States. There is blame on guns and not criminals. With every shooting, there is a call for more gun laws, which never stopped a single crime; they only define them. There is early release and other devices to see to it that thugs roam and come into contact with taxpayers.

Here is one example you may notice as important and not paranoid: the escalation of gun laws, as in the government's call for another so-called Assault Weapons Ban, is most contemporaneous with escalations of the takeover of major industries. Yes, industry's problems may seem to the layman as due to management incompetence, but then banning guns seems related to mass shootings. Both are non sequitur in the mind of the analyst genuinely interested in safety or prosperity and are a clue to the real desires of the socialist.

Even Europe is urging America to slow down on the road we're on, and believe me, Europe knows from Socialism. Europe depends on the U.S. for many things in keeping the world stable. Destabilize the United States and brother you screw up everything.

Then there is the next menacing sign, that many programs are escalating and are going against those campaign promises of transparency and accountability. There was no mention of outright incompetence. In fact, more escalations are occurring, such as China's call for replacing U.S. Currency as a remedy to a crisis some suspicion as fraudulent to begin with.

It's all escalating. Many of those who voted for this administration are now voicing their doubts. Not a good sign so early in the administration.

And the worst menacing sign to notice is how the electorate is ignored. We are forced to go along with these against our better judgment, and even if we're entirely wrong, the real giveaway is how we are ignored. Millions are starting to notice that we are not heeded as the supreme authority here, but one thing must not be forgotten: without gun rights, all the protests will be hollow, because they will not be backed by anything. Crime will be used to make confiscation of guns sound reasonable. It's been tried in the U.S. several times over the last few years, and the owners still do not yet have their guns back in spite of court orders for officials to return them.

Paranoid?

Why would the same people who are worsening the crisis want to take weapons from the people they serve?

Because the gun is a symbol of Independence, and that symbol can be more inspiring to a man or woman than any social program promising the impossible. The armed citizen in fact stops crime, but also does something much more powerful in impeaching dependency, which is the stock in trade of large government: it inspires citizens to understand how little dependency on government is desired on so many levels.

This is why the two are rushed so.

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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.