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The fact is that we are not smuggling weapons across the border, and whatever makes it to Mexico is not coming from the honest citizens here. Most are coming from south of Mexico, as has been documented thoroughly by other Examiners here and many outside this press, and the automatic reaction to blame America first is thriving by continuing an impeached lie.

But there’s more. Luke Johnson joins the blatant anti-gun movement with an emphasis on mocking our insistence on our rights as liberty lovers painted as sending guns to Mexico, either deliberately or tacitly as some extension of our right. It’s that old straw indictment, of why aren’t you doing more about the homeless? Luke’s personal frustration is foisted on the honest as if we can do more than he can about the problem such as it is. We have no such leverage, and neither does he, but he can harass gun owners because it feels better.

Why frustrated citizens turn on gun owners is because it is safe, and they know it. They know very well that we will remain civil and unprovoked. They depend on our patience and civility to vent their powerlessness, and attack Liberty and rights for every criminal shooting reported.

What they don’t get is that we comprehend our powerlessness and we know wherein it lies. In the words of Thomas Edison, we know what doesn’t work. With so many prohibited persons here obtaining by the tens of thousands any gun they want, the very newsmaking gun possession of those thugs gives testimony to the failure of Luke’s ideas. Gun control just doesn’t work. A ban is gun control; thugs caught with whatever they shouldn’t have makes a fool out of anti-gun activists, and they still don’t get it. It betrays the truth that it’s not safety they’re after, but disarmament.

How would liberty purists look at this problem? Oh, we’ve already cited that: secure the border. But that would work rather well, we think, and it is conspicuous by its absence, don’t you think? Keeping the border so open is to hide the ball and deliberately avoid what would work. Why, oh, why, do our servants apply everything but the obvious? Because it makes for good government of crisis, but not for good governance. This is part of the TEA Party complaint this week, this idea of doing precisely the opposite of what would work best for the country, vexing the electorate against our better judgment. People are catching on and getting involved in self-rule. It is for this reason that anti-gun types want to mock our insistence on our rights as silly, and most significantly, as futile. Interesting.

Other errors in Luke’s article, I’ll just mention; ‘easy access to guns ‘ is a silly accusation, since gun control doesn’t work on prohibited persons. Every day of the week, armed thugs make it look ...(wait for it..) eaaassy. I mean E-Z. It is easy when you ignore the ban.

And a quote from Vlad Lenin on how the Capitalist will sell you the very rope you will hang him with (speaking to Communist Komrades back then). Luke misses the point: a capitalist will sell you his product on the good faith covenant, a practice which circles the globe since the French invented the cheque and for generations before. It is the covenant that, as a reasonable person, you will be trustworthy on how the rope will be used and that a seller concludes the transaction with clean hands. Otherwise, nothing would get done. Wait a minute: the entire banking scandal is a breach of the good faith covenant. Oh well, I guess it’s another instance of what won’t work: Bailouts. But, I digress.

What makes Vlad’s quote improper is that it doesn’t apply to America, since we’re not selling them guns. They come from Guatemala. Just because a few of the traced rifles – and only a few — were linked back here doesn’t make Luke’s statement true as a starting point and basis for the article, it makes it false entirely and therefore the entire argument false. Please check out our own Examiners in the Gun Rights section of Examiner listed at the bottom of this article for deeper research findings which impeach gun control. Bookmark them.

Like much anti-liberty rhetoric, the article misapplied long discredited details as current facts, inserted emotionalism for real analysis, and sort of gave himself enough rope and hanged himself by his own rhetoric. Gun owners rights never hurt relations with other countries unless those countries have interests which conflict with ours, as is the case here. Liberty is to be destroyed, and disarmament is part of that. The goal is to make the United States an asset of others and no longer ours.

A little due diligence goes a long way and, with any merit at all, doesn’t need to be embellished. A little due diligence impeaches an awful lot of the blame America fist, last and always crowd. It probably always will.

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