Connecting the dots of crime to gun control to socialism, Part II.

April 8, 7:41 AMLA Gun Rights ExaminerJohn Longenecker

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When Gun owners and Examiners say that if only one armed citizen would have been present, things would likely have turned out better, we are not imagining someone playing cop: after all, cops derive their authority from us, and not ours from them. Anyone can stop a crime in progress. How smart that is varies from case to case, of course, but in these types of cases, why not give the victims a fighting chance?

Because it would work, that’s why. The armed citizen interferes with socialist plans by showing how unneeded the silly plans are. Taking guns is to take the best solution off the table.

Here is an excerpt from my book, Safe Streets In The Nationwide Concealed Carry Of Handguns. I call it a Metaphor For Governance, the demonstration of how one might experience the political deception at work by playing a short game. You will need a friend or two, a large pad of paper, small pad of paper, a 3 x 5 card or two, and a pencil. (Don’t stop me if you’ve heard this.)

You first write numbers 1 through 7 on the pad. Then you write any number on your card and hide it from the others. (You picked 4 and hid it.) You then ask for a volunteer to pick a number, any number. She picks 6. You then circle 6 and obliterate both 6 and 7, leaving 1 thru 4. You ask another to pick a number: he picks 3. You circle 3 and obliterate everything to the left of it: this leaves 4, which you circle for emphasis, You then turn up your card to reveal the number 4.  

You do it again. This time you write the number 5 and hide it. You ask for volunteers, and all offer a number. The first says 7; you circle 7 and delete it. Then 6. Scratch that. The next friend says 4. You circle 4 and delete everything to the left of it. This leaves 5. You turn your card up and reveal 5. How did he do that??? How did he know??

Obviously, if someone picks 5 to begin with, you circle 5 and turn up your card to reveal 5.

What has happened? I mean, what has really just happened?

1. You called the shots to begin with. You set the terms. The players believed they were dictating the numbers, but no matter what, they didn’t have a chance. It was an illusion.

2. In appearing to follow instructions, you sought and applied the ambiguity of their instructions to make it appear as if you were doing as told, but you were actually doing it your way all along, guiding them eventually to the number you had on your card. You might have appeared to misunderstand, but you were actually using every instruction’s ambiguity to your advantage and not really following orders. YOU determine whether to circle a number or delete it, and you determine whether to delete one or more than one.

3. It took about three rounds before they caught on. As a metaphor, three rounds before catching on could just as easily be three presidencies, three wars, or three generations of Americans before they see a pattern outside the ordinary course of reasonable expectation and good faith dealings.

Metaphor for governance.

If you really want safer streets, you’re going to have to recognize and support citizen authority as supreme in this country of self-rule and never let it be taken off the table in order to appear to be doing everything to fight crime.

Connect the dots. The armed citizen is best for this country for a variety of reasons, and disarming the citizen is against this country, whatever the reason.

Liberty.

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John Longenecker is author of Safe Streets In The Nationwide Concealed Carry Of Handguns. His e-mail is John-at-GoodForTheCountry.com and he welcomes all correspondence.