October 10, 2006
USA TODAY

In the article “ ‘A horrendous crime scene,' ” the crucial sentence was, “Police believe that he chose the school because it was an easy target.” Schools are not “gun-free” zones; they are killing zones because we insist that no one inside is armed. Feel-good programs only encourage attacks. We've seen many times that police do not arrive in time (News, Tuesday).

The only way to stop these crimes is to properly train and arm the teachers and administrators so that they can respond from inside the school immediately with deadly force.

James Irvine, Chairman
Buckeye Firearms Association
Cleveland

This the third of a three part series featured at Buckeyefirearms.org.

By John Longenecker

In Part II, I wrote about how powerful officials can abuse citizens my making an example of them unjustly, emphasis on unjustly on the analogy of a cat producing a mouse from elsewhere just to prove she’s performing. I called the idea being a dead mouse. You don’t become a dead mouse at the hands of criminals – you become a dead mouse at the hands of predatory agencies making an example of you in reaching the rest, including the non-gun owner Americans. This is often how 22,000 unrighteous gun laws spill over in shared-philosophy to effect adversely other seemingly unrelated corners of our way of life.

In Part III, we talk about what would happen if we repealed all gun laws and how it could have a very positive effect on our overall way of life here on the realization that – in all fairness and honesty – there is no such thing as an illegal gun. It’s a worthwhile idea because out of all the hysterical predictions of the anti-gun crowd – crime in the streets, anarchy, bloodshed, road rage, accidental shootings, romantic lover shootings – none of them ever came true. In the meantime, in the intervening years, many unrighteous laws made examples of citizens in dubious cases.

In America, it is generally understood by the liberty community that the Constitution is the law of the land and is not to be abused. There is a term for it. It’s called abuse of process. It is to weaponize the law and to rub your nose in the value that we are a nation of laws.

You cannot rightly nor rightfully convince the people to go against their interests and call it due process just because they fell for it: it’s abusive when the second amendment specifically locks out due process – short of another amendment – to incrementally chip away at a civil right for political purposes, such as allowing crime to flourish while tying the hands of the electorate to answer violence they face.

Liberty enthusiasts are certainly not alone in understanding that many, many laws have been written to twist rights, to see rights which aren’t there, and other abuses and legalese tactics which transfer the freedoms of the citizen into giving it all away for some middleman’s sales commission or brokerage fee in the process or some other payoff. Demagoguery.

For protesting these and for holding officials to their duty – something most Americans expect – liberty nuts are punished by defamation and other immoral tools. It’s like being a whistleblower: it’s a great way to catch Hell for doing the right thing, in your conscience, isn’t it? It’s a tough decision to make, and it intimidates many Americans and silences them.

Liberty enthusiasts are the whistleblowers of the country. The offense is holding officials to their duty. The very idea of heavy-handed, official interest in someone is retaliatory, and is proof that official and citizen are adversaries – this in a country where officials are servants of the sovereign. Who will join them on issues which protect the household?

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