Safer Streets 2011: We are not supervised; We do the supervising. Republicans, call your office.

LA Gun Rights Examiner ^ | 23 November, 2010 | John Longenecker

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The key to safer streets is self-rule. Safer streets are a culminating, final evidence that self-rule is at work, and this will not happen as long as officials feel free to supervise us when it is we who must be supervising them.

It is a duty of ours to supervise our servants, a duty which as been obfuscated, discouraged, even punished by servants. Will 2011 be any different?

On Election Day, 2010, you might say we caught a lucky break, or did we once again awaken and come to realize that freedom takes work? Yes, freedom is not free, it has a cost. But we can change both the currency of legal tender in this and we can even change the rate of exchange: that is to say, instead of sacrifices for our freedoms, why not make the investment of time and trouble to monitor and supervise our servants for our freedoms?

Come on, you'll like it. It's serious business, to be sure, and a new movement has proven that it is certainly not futile. When accepted as a personal patriotic duty, it seems unstoppable.

Part of that duty is exercising our right to not only refuse supervision but to direct national security.

If you have observed the abuses of airline safety screening as unreasonable, intrusive and suspect, then you are beginning to understand how 90 million gun owners see gun control as identical. They both do the very same things: 1. Authorities suspecting everyone a priori as if they can't tell the good guys from the bad guys (yeah, right) This accentuates crisis mongering and worse. 2. The use of force of the state to pressure individuals who stand up for themselves, as we have seen, and; 3. more bureaucracy.

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Safe streets come from cultural norms that build and enforce self rule. In the United States, for the most part, this has meant Judeo/Christian culture.