Op-Ed: There Is No Such Thing As An Illegal Gun, Part II: Dead Mouse

This the second of a three part series to be featured at Buckeyefirearms.org.

By John Longenecker

In Part I, I answered Jeri Bonavia who represents Wisconsin’s Anti-Violence Effort. Ms. Bonavia’s agency characterizes Congressman Sensenbrenner’s [R-fifth] reasonable questioning of gun data usefulness as handcuffing Mayors and Cops.

In Part II, I include a selected excerpt from The Case For Nationwide Concealed Carry, now available in its second edition everywhere. This excerpt, in part to expand on my response to Ms. Bonavia’s press release, is called Dead Mouse, included below.

First, on the subject of no such thing as an illegal gun and how such gun data is useless, let me mention to non-gun owners that the Second Amendment was written for only one thing: to block anyone in this country from applying any seemingly reasonable due process [as you’re observing in this trafficking issue] to unwind the right to own and bear weapons, short of a constitutional amendment. We’re not talking about trafficking per se, we’re talking about further harassment as I’ll show. The founders knew only too well how due process could be abused to the detriment of the people, little by little, seemingly helpfully, and how it could be likely in any age, then and now. Please recall any other abuses today of due process that might come to mind and you can see how 22,000 gun laws serve as a precedent to affect non-gun owner households profoundly.

The language of the Second Amendment is to make it impervious to due process infringements short of another amendment. Until that hour, then, all gun laws are illegal and until then, in this country, there is no such thing as an illegal gun.

Today, on the subject of violence, the move to disarm the people with a cadre of laws which appear to be legal is a bluff. They have plenty of force behind them – that’s no bluff – but their legality is a bluff. Increasingly, tracking is going to be a big thing in the future. First, you’re convinced on the idea of using tracking for fighting crime, but sooner or later, they’ll get around to you. By then, new crimes are spelled out and you’re a dead mouse, too.

Gun laws are purely the initiative of anti-sovereignty activists and public servants who exceed the scope of their authority, but who convince or bluff the electorate in rhetoric on the concept of necessity, such as the plague of ever-increasing violence. Anti-violence sounds so righteous, but is a disguise to disarm homes and thereby dissolve resistance on a much wider family of other issues.

As more violence preys on the unarmed, there are more calls for anti-violence and the cycle continues. This is what America is beginning to feel in various, puzzling regulation which shouldn’t ordinarily touch the average home, but which affect your everyday life, and it can be traced to the anti-family movement to discourage dialogue, conflict and even resistance itself, remember? This is why anti-violence programs don’t work: they’re not supposed to, they’re anti-family, and it is an attack on the nation.

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Officials do not need to know where the guns are because that is not where crime is fought. It is where the honest and the cooperative are easily fought and opposed through intimidation, and who’s initiating the aggression on that issue while really doing nothing to stop violence? I should say, to cultivate violence. The honest aren’t trafficking, of course, but data collection of the honest can too, too easily be swept up in such anti-crime measures and amount to yet another harassment of the law-abiding by including additional terms, conditions or definitions of the offense. Blocking such data can shield the honest.

Yet, Americans outside the liberty movement go along with it on the word of officials alone, and to the detriment of other of their rights and sovereignty… and in the face of the use of force, which brings us to the idea of being a dead mouse.

On the subject of abuses of due process, on taking powers not granted, and indifference to individual sovereignty – the greatest complaints in a self-rule society, including non-gun owner citizens – here’s a peek at page 46 of the second edition of Transfer Of Wealth . . .

Don’t Be A Dead Mouse.

It’s a propaganda game. Even a cat has to produce a dead mouse once in a while, just to prove she’s on the job. That mouse could be you as you can easily be caught up in a self-dealing system indifferent to your way of life merely to be fetched from afar as proof that one is busy. It happens year round on more than a dozen privacy, sovereignty, family, education, economic or other way-of-life issues. It’s not a question of not getting caught or of beating the system – it’s a question of coming after you when you weren’t even in the house, just to produce a dead mouse. …Limits and good faith dealings are what the Constitution is all about. Limits on government, not the people.

…Mice go where the mess is, and a clean house shall we say – impeaches – the need for kitty. Everybody has rats in the garage, spiders behind the washer and fleas in the grass, but how you take care of your own house solves the whole problem. In this respect, freedom can take care of itself, and there is no need for a cat – or a powerful industrial complex – to pre-empt your personal responsibility, much less one which has to prove to you it’s performing by making an example of others from elsewhere when you may, in fact, have been handling it just fine without interference – in fact, when the whole nation was handling it just fine.

Truly, freedom can protect itself without the need for industrial complexes which have, by now, become predatory just to keep their jobs. Don’t be a dead mouse.

Some American households may keep a messy kitchen, sure, but not everybody. For instance, some may believe that trafficking is an immense problem when the real problem is how those weapons are used illegally in violence – right up there with knives, stolen vehicles, well, you get it. Meanwhile, broader interpretations of the language of such a law (like many, many others you can think of) can involve innocent persons on a much broader scale than stopping genuine criminals. Beginning to get it? Sensenbrenner gets it, and steps in to protect innocent citizens from being a dead mouse.

What do you think the entire gun rights complaint is all about, anyway? Shooting or personal sovereignty? Personal Sovereignty. The complaint is about the unrighteous infringement of a civil right characterized as fighting crime in areas where it doesn’t, really, which infringement itself is now spilling over into the non-gun owner issues of our society – as predicted.

[Remember that not all of government wants your guns, nor for you to surrender your sovereignty; many officials smell a rat and they work very hard to protect your rights and for you to have a freer hand to participate in protecting your rights – disaster preparedness, Stand Your Ground laws, etc. Remember these executives working on your behalf. Get to know them. Contact these men and women who protect your sovereignty and thank them for their service. Stay in touch with them permanently. Be sure to register to vote and be sure to vote this November.]

The way to avoid being a dead mouse is to dissolve the agencies coercing you to depend on them when you can depend on yourself and keep your own kitchen clean better than any hired cat can.

Let me give a very germane example. Many agencies will point not only to violence as justification for their very existence, but also to their interdiction as the solution. First, violence is something best met by the citizen. Don’t ever forget this. The citizen is the first line of defense. Frustrating self-defense underhandedly hides the ball to justify agency continuation and dependency on them.

Second, it’s easy to point to interdiction, but what laws are allegedly broken? Many, many gun laws are illegal, and never should have been written to begin with. Even B.S. can be made to sound good for its nutritional value, namely fibre, but golly, people, if you swallow that and wash it down with kool-aid, you’ve swallowed the line: dependency on agencies to the detriment of the individual.

Understand that gun laws were made to cultivate adverse social conditions – an age-old political practice – and that your independence shining through is to be discouraged because it can so very obviously condemn the need for predatory agencies which continue to convince people of their need – at the expense of your sovereignty, namely in frustrating self-defense and in pointing to interdiction based on suspicious rules.

Keep the people disarmed – California, New York, Chicago, Detroit, Washington, D.C. – and you can forever point to violence as if it is intractable. Remember that in time of violent crime in gun-free zones, all the force is one-sided. Keep the people disarmed, and they cannot exercise their rightful authority to disprove the need for such agencies: the price is to become a statistic they can point to.

Erase U.S. History and you can get the people to believe they are powerless . . . or wrong . . . or ashamed of our heritage. Discourage and punish conflict in school and workplace and you can discourage courage and dialogue by silencing people… And getting them used to it. In all of these, You discourage justice and the seeking of justice, not the delivery of justice at the point of a gun, but the facilitating of justice by keeping your victim safer from the violent.

Denying your victim the ability to resist is to discourage America. You disarm the entire nation. It’s not just guns, is it?

For officials, it’s time to understand just how and why in this country there is no such thing as an illegal gun. It’s time to remember why one joined public service and took an oath, the same reason I joined EMS: to make a one-on-one difference makes a national difference, and that doing the right thing which protects the individual is to do the right thing for the country. After all, individuals have rights, the government does not. Agencies may have powers, but not one, single agency has rights.

As you may know, the role of nurse and other non-physician practitioners is patient advocate. Officials have a similar role in their discernment between citizen advocate duties versus blind cooperation with colleagues and activists who ask them to go against their oath. One does not take an oath to defend the Document and dismantle one of its amendments. One does not allow others to dismantle it under color of reasonable due process.

Are you listening, Republicans?

Battling these begins with understanding that there is no such thing in America as legally disarming Americans in various fraudulently and seemingly reasonable ways – disarming us by erasing our history, by snuffing out dialogue, by punishing fathers, by the takings of eminent domain, or by discouraging the lawful, reasonable citizen use of force when facing grave danger alone. Emphasis on alone.

Agencies which urge you to depend on them do not have the authority to take away the citizen’s personal burden of self-defense. Theyhave no authority to tamper with it, or even to open dialogue about it. Understanding that there is no such thing in America as an illegal gun is the beginning of restoring personal sovereignty – that burden of liberty some dislike so very much – and that this personal burden is absolutely necessary as being good for the country.