Good For The Country by John Longenecker: D.C.'S GUN BAN IS ITSELF BANNED!
By John Longenecker (03/12/07)
The week of March 9th, 2007, the Court Of Appeals tossed out the Washington, D.C. gun ban and declared it unconstitutional.
D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty said in response to the announcement that he was disappointed and outraged. He reportedly said, "It flies in the face of laws that have helped decrease gun violence in the District of Columbia."
It has done no such thing. D.C. is the murder capital of the nation since its ban.
The court’s holding is especially upbraiding, because the matter involves defiance of a civil right. If you preside over gun control, you break your oath of office from Day One and every day thereafter – a civil right ignored by a champion of civil rights in the nation’s capitol.
Another court has found New Orleans Mare Nagin in contempt of court for confiscating weapons from stranded homeowners during hurricane Katrina, then denying that he had care, custody, and control over them, and then contempt of court for refusal to return them once he’d been exposed.
Senator Dianne Feinstein, Chuck Schumer, presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani and others are all exercising an unconstitutional control over the sovereignty of non-gun owners when they compel other citizens to turn in their guns.
It’s also worthy to note the falsities of others in the defiance bleachers: the Brady Center’s Paul Helmke announced that this ruling defies the democratic will of the people. It does not. The officials defy the will of the people who filed this case. And so does Helmke. The Second Amendment is not subject to the will of the people for a reason just such as this. It infringes on the civil right of others and that’s not legal.
Ladies and gentlemen, gun control is illegal for a very old reason. That reason will never change as politicians utilize violence as an excuse to disarm the citizen in order to cultivate dependency on them. Dependency is the foe of Independence, and Dependency means profiteering. The official gets prestige, legacy and other political capital: the citizen pays in terms of privacy, sovereignty and even physical suffering.
Let’s face this reality as a national safeguard: the armed citizen can fight crime better than first responders who aren’t there yet, and certainly better than the drones who want you to depend on them and their policies. It is a safeguard against coerced dependency, such as "Let the police handle it." Doing nothing and waiting for police would be an example of coerced dependency to the detriment of the community,namely being a statistic.
Attention non-gun owners and 2008 Candidates: Crime is not fought best by the administration of justice –a truly vital component of our society, but an after-the-fact concept nevertheless. Crime is best fought instance-by-instance during-the-fact, precisely when it can be stopped from escalating into tragedy. After all, crime is not fought once the aggressor is gone — a fight where the thug won and the damage is done. Not smart to make a citizen defenseless beforehand. Not good for the country.
The big secret officials try to keep under the sheets is this: police have no duty to protect individuals, or do major city Mares forget this? The armed citizen is the best resistance in time of violent crime because they are on scene, because they are already possessed of all legal authority they need (a lot of Mares hide this), and because they are tactically the first – and last – line of defense, as the case often is in the absence of first responders. And this combination is everything. Police have no duty, citizens have the authority, and they are the first line of defense.
These are truths which cannot be legislated away, but they have been obfuscated for defiant Mayors across the nation who preside over crisis and who depend on people being hurt, and it must become a plank in the 2008 platform.
The armed citizen is the original Homeland Security, especially in time of everyday violent crime, and it’s always a good idea not to mess with it. States affirming the individual right to carry guns have not regretted placing their trust in their citizens. Surprised? Those states are nearly all states of the union by now. Surprised?
Voters and officials need to appreciate that the states across the country affirming personal carrying of weapons haven’t regretted it.
It is time to repeal all gun laws as unconstitutional, and for officials to do their sworn duty of protecting the rights of armed citizens as necessary for the security of a free state.
As a conservative platform for 2008 -- as an American platform in 2008 -- you know it’s good for the country.
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Crime is grown for political gain, and we pay with the only currency they will accept: our sovereignty and liberty. See http://www.TransferOfWealth.net/
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