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| D.C. v. Heller:
Final Comment Before The Hearing. Encouraging Those Non-Gun Owners Voting For Concealed Carry. . . With Heartfelt Thanks. March 6th, 2008 __________________________________________ A great deal of ink and disc space are being given to officials who are supporting individual concealed carry of handguns. A big pat on the back to them for their courage as much as their conscience, I know it's not easy... Until they discover, if they haven't already, two things: the support of their constituents, which had been silenced and punished a great deal but ever-present, and the pure correctness of the measures they supported. . Reports from around the country are showing how college campuses are examining student concealed carry. Students For Concealed Carry On Campus (SCCC) has been most successful in bringing the issue to public attention and in getting favorable results. The best to them and their supporters. . States are voting for the Castle Doctrine. States are also voting to blow off the National ID Card, another interference with liberty as profound as gun control policy. Mercy, are there twenty Castle Doctrine now?? . There is a nationwide increase in random shootings. These increases are very suspicious as the hearing date of D.C. v. Heller draws near, this March 18th. But then, this is common; as increasing anti-gun legislation or an interesting gun case surfaces, large or small, there are increased reports of shootings, or haven't you noticed? It's interesting to look back and note that the dire forecasts of the anti-gun movement – blood in the streets, aircraft shot down, lover shootings and more – did not appear in the decades passed as forecast, but they sure do show up before high-profile gun cases. . The Microstamping technology is becoming a scandal for its sole-source interest and big push, and a recent finding of experts casts a pall on the technology itself as simply not being ready for prime time as touted. [Internet Search Term Report advises against new national database of ballistic images] . 31 Attorneys General have filed Amicus Briefs with the Supreme Court weigh in against D.C.'s gun ban. More than forty states affirm concealed carry and have not regretted it. It's good to see top executives standing up to the gun ban crowd. NOTE: Congress does not stand up to the so-called Gun Lobby - the Liberty for all Lobby expects Congress to stand up to the gun banners. . More general attention is coming to the issue of concealed carry as being more in the public interest than gun bans have proven. Heads of Household are coming to understand better how gun bans affect non-gun homes. The question is not subject to any decision as any old issue might ordinarily be; the subject is rooted in the framing-era intent of the Founders in foreseeing abuses of power as gun bans are. In foreseeing abuses of power in the future of the United States, and to forbid such abuses of power, the Founders of the framing-era declared the Citizen to be the Sovereign and not the government, which includes the District Of Columbia. The language of this concept described the Citizen as Supreme Authority, the ultimate legislators of the nation, and other expressions of Original Intent and to forbid abuses of power: we are guaranteed only a bundle of rights and great limits on officials throughout the Constitution. The prime apprehension was public service abuse of power against the individual in our nation of self-rule. When it came to the Second Amendment, then, the framing-era intent was more about Governance than Guns, and was concerned with abuse of power in that governance, so the framing-era thinking in declaring Citizen as Supreme Authority was to guarantee Citizens a singular lethal force to back our authority (especially against political boondoggles, opinion and majority sway of so-called anti-crime measures), and is it this lethal force backing citizen authority which shall not be infringed. Any regulation whatsoever is a move against the force backing sovereign authority of this nation, the Citizen. It is a move against your authority. In 2008 and beyond, no legal brief can disarm the supreme authority of this country. Gun bans are against the law. There is no such thing as sensible gun laws. 2A is absolute, and beyond the reach of officials, beyond the reach of due process short of another Amendment. Officials simply have no such authority to regulate guns, because the Citizen is the Sovereign and in supreme authority at that. If you're watching D.C. v. Heller calendared before the Supreme Court for March 18th, then note these dicta in an earlier First Amendment case: "The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials.... fundamental rights may not be submitted to vote; they depend on the outcome of no elections." — Justice Jackson, United States Supreme Court in West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624 (1943) The First Amendment (as in Barnette) is not absolute – one may not lie under oath and claim freedom of speech, one may not falsely advertise, defame another or commit mail fraud and hide behind 1A. It can be regulated and in some cases it cannot. But the Second Amendment is absolute and cannot be regulated legally, because its anywhere anytime lethal force backs citizen authority always, not only in meeting crime in armed self-defense, but by dint of this authority it impeaches the very need for silly, ineffectual demagogic, anti-crime policies which propound to assume this personal burden in a wrongful substitution of authority. Abuse of power foreseen by the Founders in any era, any generation. And following that foresight is good for the country. _____________________________________ |
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| Author and Columnist John Longenecker |
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| From the Publisher. . . "...something we really must learn if we want to live again on safe streets." |