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John Longenecker Safer Streets Integrity, II.
I've always believed - and said - that integrity ensures our self-rule. (Being armed is part of integrity.)
We don't 'win' our self-rule back per se by way of majority, but we certainly can lose it by way of a majority through simple social decay. The best road back to self-rule is to set the example such that Americans once again prefer it and insist on it.
When it comes to the second amendment, it means showing where it works and explaining how and why it works in handing down knowledge in legacy. Many law enforcement professionals understand as a reality of their own experience what I am about to say. I hear this maxim from time to time, and I heard it again this morning.
First of all, we believe that a case is won - or that justice is served - on the street and not in the courtroom. This is because protocols are observed or not. However, it's also true for the violent crime and effective self-defense. A crime can be stopped before it is completed instead of remedied long after it has won and had its way. A person can avert injury as preferable to being injured and then fighting even harder to be made whole again perhaps years later in receiving a favorable judgment. But it's never the same as avoiding trouble to begin with.
This is not an obigation of the State, it is an obligation of the citizen. Trouble is avoided by being armed. One is armed not only with a handful of lethal force, but also by the law if one is reasonable throughout. The integrity I am speaking of is best in both the people in meeting their obligation and the officials in not fighting them but supporting them in this.
It is then the citizen's job, and in refusing it, many are only consistent in abandong other values as well. This contributes to our social decay and invites Statist insistence. Our mission is for those who welcome deeper understanding of what the second amendment is really all about, and one segment of that is that justice -- and community safety -- are decided and protected on the street primarily and perhaps in court secondarily.
Remember that you do not find violence, it finds you. You are not the stalking predator, thugs are.
Meeting and managing violent crime is done best by the target of crime as a community's own best first line of defense.
No matter how you say it, be sure to say it to the non-gun owner electorate; the armed citizen as an essential of community safety is a matter of integrity, integrity in honesty, good faith and the capacity to understand where crime is fought best.
The real test of this will be how gun control has served officials to preside over crisis instead of prosperity and freedom. Turf battle, you might say. Where Integrity comes in is in how long they will continue to refuse their understanding of how and where violence is fought best.
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