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John Longenecker Safer Streets As the second amendment - and Privacy - go, so goes the nation.
 The health of the second amendment is the primary indicator of the overall health of the nation. As a parameter of freedom, government and governed rapport and general respect for the Sovereign, officials can't say respect for law and order better than the repeal of gun laws. The best part is that we get to say whether it is respected enough. Is it? No, it is not respected enough.
Privacy also is an indicator of health of the nation, revealing either support for people or abuses of due process in undermining people. For a long time now, it has become weaponized for political puposes. I should say undermined for political purposes.
Lately, I've seen quite a few articles on the subject of revealing who owns guns, one of those tasteless tactics of liberals under color of authority and safety. Fewer and fewer citizens are being fooled, and the insistence of officials in spite of objection reveals more of a hostility than a genuine concern for safety. It is not that these people get things backwards under good intentions; it is that vexing citizens is their intentions. Americans keep forgetting the name Saul Alinsky and the real purpose of leftism: a renewed permission to take revenge.
One of the neat things about states is that many do not register guns. This means that they do not need to know where the guns are after all. And that means that the idea of revealing who owns guns is far from a consensus (as if smothering rights is merely a matter of majority).
Privacy as a functioning safeguard of the United States is in preventing mistake, abuse and retaliation. Cause or need or necessity has long been used as a bogus means of pushing rights out of the way to grow the State. Rights keep the size of the State small by one dynamic: independence of the citizen impeaches the need for many state policies and programs. Politically crushing independence of the citizen is essential by way of a crafted disiquilibrium, or the dislocation of the sovereign such that the officials prevail and citizen does not.
Privacy is one of the safeguards of equilibirum of the healthier relationship between our governments and the governed. By preventing mistake, abuse and retaliation, privacy prevents the looting of the nation under color of necessity. Like gun registration, destroying privacy doesn't do a thing but defy the Sovereign and destroy the healthier rapport of officials and citizens. There is such a thing, you know, as a healthy government of public service, only we get to define it: it cannot legally or morally define itself.
We won't see safer streets of a healthier equilibrium of self-rule as long as the people tolerate the excuses for pushing privacy and the second amendment out of the way.
As the second amendment and privacy go, so goes the nation.
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