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July 18th, 2011
"With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plead;
but with tyrants, I will give no quarter, nor waste
arguments where they will certainly be lost."
William Lloyd Garrison
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The
Virtual Book Tour.
Stops you can visit include the Oakland Gun Rights Examiner, Yih-Chau Chang and
Pastor Kenn Blanchard at Black Man With A Gun.
Visits also at Angels Fear To Tread website
I stopped paid a visit to Kurt Hofmann's page at Examiner....
The latest was a visit to South Bay Open Carry
for a talk on the CPR Corollary.
David Codrea's radio show War on Guns - Notes from the Resistance - hosted me on the air.
Hear it on mp3 here.
Thanks, David!
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Greetings!
For our non-gun owner readers, The Arizona Republic caught my attention first thing Sunday morning. My comments and a link to the article today.
David Codrea is with us today with a very gratifying report on the armed citizen.
Bob Parks is with us.
Also for our non-gun owner readership, Alan Korwin joins us for a report they ought to know.
Ron Avery joins us on Preparedness from the Officer's point of view. Thanks, Ron!
Liberty in sovereignty,
John Longenecker
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John Longenecker Safer Streets
The gun debate - any gun debate - is nonsense.
In the United States, there is no such thing as sensible gun laws.
There is also no such thing as a sensible debate on second amendment rights.
How can you say such a thing, John?
Because some things are beyond question, and the only reason for even opening debate is to undermine our way of life. That's not much of a reason in this country, but it is a tool for anti-liberty personalities, and for them, it's a reason.
Over the weekend, I finished reading an article in The Arizona Republic. I selected it for our lineup today, but the main point of my discussion is that there should not even be a debate on the right and freedom to be armed with a loaded sidearm or any other gun. The idea of debate on this subject is a bad sign of ignorance and attack.
Americans are so tolerant of others' freedoms of thought that an open mind can be manipulated to let your brains fall out. The kind and patient tolerance for others' freedom of thought is one of our American values. America is a place of freedom, and among the rights which are absolute is the freedom of thought. (This, too, is subject to debate by the anti-liberty personalities, as if you hadn't noticed. Ever hear of thought crime?) Our rights are used against us.
Debate is a an example of a wedge tool for social engineering where anti-freedom topics are broached and marketed as open-minded, tolerant, freedom-loving and for civil rights.
The lede of the article (not lead) is "Advocates on both sides and a wealth of academic research have yet to settle the debate: are guns and violence inextricably linked?"
The investigation may be of interest to some, but it is without meaning. In short, no matter what you find, it may be subject to interpretation depending on one's personal values.
This is important, because something like abortion is also subject to interpretation through the lens of one's values. In many, many topics, one sees things through the eyes of their world view or how things are (one's Weltanschauung), and this masks one important parameter: is it absolute for the survival of the nation? If it is, it will become a target of liberals.
For all the research, any inferences without values means nothing. You cannot see the findings as dispassionately as you can study rats for the results of eating genetically engineered tomatoes.
If you want to conduct a study, just go to any major city hospital's Trauma ICU and look for gunshot wounds. Discover whether they are criminal shootings or self-defense shootings. (They're criminal shootings, just to help your Ph.D. thesis.)
The significance of this finding is that the shooter broke the laws already put in place. They will continue to break all gun control laws no matter what you write. The answer is not more laws, but more liberty. The values which ought to come into play are that the findings are inextricably linked to human beings, and not lab rats. The findings are not numbers without souls, but real life people who have to live with the consequences of disarming people as if such a notion were humanitarian.
As we have seen from experience, liberals know nothing of humanitarian values. The very idea of debate is an intentional interference with our way of life.
On the article's exploration of whether guns and violence are linked, or whether both sides have a wealth of research, it all means nothing if you have no values. This is the context within which the second amendment must be viewed, and that would preclude 'debate'.
Anti-gun personalities have no values compatible with this country, and the very idea of assuming they have a reasonable position or anything to say for that matter betrays that.
The armed citizen is a life or death issue everywhere in Arizona or anywhere else in this country. When you think of being armed versus being disarmed as a matter of bringing 'context' to the issue, the discussion is meaningless when it lacks the primary values of who is the Sovereign and therefore above question. This series acts like it hasn't considered this. Let's get real: there is no 'context' or 'debate' on who is the Sovereign in this country, there is only political quarrel with that authority.
On the subject of personal safety, the discussion is without any merit because personal safety is not even debatable at all. Only an anti-American personality would imagine that your safety is open to debate. Only an anti-American would even imagine that there could be a different 'context'.
[Note: Buckeye Firearms readers and millions of other gun owners may already be aware of this headline: "Journalists for hire, ethics be damned: Anti-gun Joyce Foundation grant funds media "studies" pushing gun control." Such a series for 'context' may already be tainted." Click here for more.] _________________________________________________ |
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David Codrea Second Amendment Sometimes, it does take a Village.
What, am I suddenly agreeing with Hillary Clinton?
Hardly.
I'm talking about a June 15 Wired.com "Danger Room" report by David Axe titled "African Village Uses Tech to Fight Off Rape Cult."
What kind of "tech"? Hmmm... a militia comprised of the people establishing security and keeping evil at bay. Where have we heard that concept before?
More . . .
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Bob Parks. Integrity as Patriotism.
Black & Right:
 Bob Parks writes the Bonehead of the Day and other features...
See his commentary. Read Black & Right.
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Arizona Republic Second Amendment
Guns in Arizona -- A life or death question...
On Jan. 8, six people were killed and 13 others wounded in a mass shooting near Tucson. As a debate about gun safety raged across the country and in Arizona, where state lawmakers ultimately passed new laws easing restrictions on gun owners, The Arizona Republic began examining the role of the firearm in state politics, commerce and life. The goal: to bring context to an issue that has been debated longer than Arizona has been a state.
More . . .
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Tenth Amendment Center Sovereignty
Nullification, The Movie.
 We want to bring this message to more people, more cities - and get more effective activism nullifying unconstitutional federal acts. Want to spearhead an effort to do this in your area?
More . . .
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Ron Avery Preparedness
Individual preparedness for Terrorism: Are you ready?
 [...] I believe it is not a question of if, but when, we will have more widespread terrorist incidents in this country. Right now, they are being downplayed as something else. This ostrich head in the sand approach doesn't cut it. More . . .
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The CPR Corollary
is the identity of moral purpose and public interest of both the ubiquitous armed citizen and a CPR-trained citizenry. A must-have if you're talking to non-gun owner Americans.
Read more about The CPR Corollary. In digital format and soon in Paperback, this July. Click here for more.
Even Safer Streets 2011 - The Second Amendment as a Mainstream Value.
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____________ Tenth Amendment Center's Enumerated Powers article is especially sharp at clarifying the nature of the relationship between the government and the governed. It's a must-read for any Good WIll Ambassador for our Bill Of Rights. See it here. _______________________________________________________ |
"When you make wellness Priority One,
the rest can take care of itself." -- Aurea Longenecker, R.N., Independent Associate ____________________________________________________________________________ |
Questions for John?
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