Guns Are Not Right Wing, Guns Are Patriotic
By John Longenecker
Predators In The Bigger Cities Who Refuse Safer Streets.
There is a big difference between being Conservative and being Patriotic. Elephants and Donkeys can agree on many, many questions on how we run our country, come to the same conclusions and get a lot of business done. And a lot of Conservatives can drop the ball and refuse to see the citizen authority - lethal force connection they should be standing up for.
This is one of the biggest complaints of constitutents: for all the talk of Independence, the Conservatives won't really take a position on how citizen authority in this country is backed by lethal force in the hands of the citizen first and always. It is this authority backed by force which shall not be infringed, and it is this which contributes substantively to safer streets where the armed citizen is affirmed. That's forty-eight states. The problem is in the large cities who defy their own state law affirming armed citizens everywhere. Crime is higher there, of course.
In talking about safe streets, or even beginning to get to safer streets, self defense in an armed citizenry is Patriotic because it does one thing: it establishes -- citizens insist on -- carrying their own burdens, and the chief burden is personal safety. Let's get real: it is not enough to say that law enforcement cannot be everywhere; the truth is that Police have no duty to protect individuals [Internet Search Term "Police have no duty to protect.."] and it is this which every head of household has to understand in planning household safety and safety away from home.
The Left has been carping about how the D.C. v. Heller ruling is a win for the Right, a divisive attitude, and cites this as reason enough to refuse an interesting and proven Safe Streets Formula. Why oppose such effective an answer? Why does D.C. write brand new legislation crafted to vex its constituents even further so closely following an adverse ruling handed them?
Who cares why? The suspicion is that officials, themselves, are becoming increasingly predatory with every self-dealing policy which now seems more motivated to stick a finger in the eye of constituents than almost anything else.
The truth of the matter is that America won, and in this win, the battle has only begun. City after city is breaking the law at this very hour as D.C. did and must be challenged individually in court. Now, many liberty groups are taking the authority of that Supreme Court decision and invoking it to challenge gun bans in the larger cities, who – in spite of state law which affirms right to carry – institute bans like other murder capitals do. Predatory.
Safer streets by an armed citizenry is refused because it's proven to work in other cities without vigilanteism and without debate as to whether one is taking the law into one's own hands. Refusing such a safer streets formula where it is needed most is incredibly indifferent. Some officials won't even hear of it. Crime grows, then. Violence seems intractable, safer streets seem impossible.
There is no question that disarming the citizenry is purely predatory, and when the patriotic foundations mobilize to litigate the large cities to enforce the rights of all Americans, they are going after predators. They're going to court with the patience, the dignity and respect for due process much more than cities themelves have shown -- but make no mistake, they're going after predators.
It is time for non gun owners and young adults to see this no-guns-policy, predatory, preside-over-crisis formula, how it is applied to other corners of our society, and precisely how our patriotism in carrying our own burdens on so many levels is frustrated and even punished.
To the plaintiffs challenging the gun bans everywhere in the United States, you're going to be meeting vicious predators.
Good Hunting.
It will be good for the country.
John Longenecker is author of Safe Streets In The Nationwide Concealed Carry Of Handguns.
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