Properly Defending Liberty Comes Down To One Thing: World View

BY Herschel Smith
9 years, 1 month ago

There is a stir among gun rights advocates – or at least, presumed gun rights advocates.  On the one hand, there are the open carriers and opponents of I-594 and their advocates in the state of Washington (and other places like Texas and New York where even Sheriffs are recommending that your thrown your SAFE act pistol permit recertification invitation in the garbage), and on the other hand are Alan Gottlieb, Dave Workman, Bob Owens (who seems like a late comer to the pragmatic approach), and many of their readers.  See for instance this article at Zelman Partisans, this one by Bob Owens, and this article, this article, this article, and this article from Mike Vanderboegh.

As you might be able to guess from my history, I am not an advocate of pragmatism.  I have been a vocal and uncompromising opponent of universal background checks (and anything that enables such statism) from the beginning.  But before we rehearse and and expound on the reasons for my opposition, first let’s survey the pragmatists.  Bob Owens’ prose is stunning.

A small group of long gun open carriers lacking the discernment, basic common sense, and the political savvy of your average garden snail made complete fools out of themselves as they dangerously brandished firearms in the Washington House gallery last week during I-594 protests …

… knuckle-draggers like those pictured above don’t understand the long-game, and can’t grasp that the average citizen thinks that a person carrying a long gun to a protest of any sort is most likely unhinged.

We need to do a better job of patrolling our own, folks, because if we don’t find a way to control these cretins, the forces of gun control will be certain to exploit them for every bit of political capital that they can.

“Garden snail” … “knuckle-draggers” … “fools” … “cretins.”  These are words for open carriers normally reserved for web sites like Mother Jones, Balloon Juice, or perhaps Salon.  I am an open carrier (at certain times), and while this example is atypical of open carriers, it’s important to remember that even if it is perceived to be theatrical, it has context and it was provoked.

Earlier this summer, Rep. Jim Moeller took to Facebook and issued what some gun-rights advocates perceived as a challenge.

“I will refuse to conduct the business of the state as long as any ‘open carry’ nuts (are) in the gallery,” Moeller, D-Vancouver, wrote on his Elect Jim Moeller Facebook page.

Open carriers have experience with open carry of weapons being legal but also being bullied about their choices, or even worse, put in an unsafe position because of their legal choices.  It’s also important to remember that while open carry may not appear to be the norm today, it wasn’t always this way in America.

In the colonies, availability of hunting and need for defense led to armament statues comparable to those of the early Saxon times. In 1623, Virginia forbade its colonists to travel unless they were “well armed”; in 1631 it required colonists to engage in target practice on Sunday and to “bring their peeces to church.” In 1658 it required every householder to have a functioning firearm within his house and in 1673 its laws provided that a citizen who claimed he was too poor to purchase a firearm would have one purchased for him by the government, which would then require him to pay a reasonable price when able to do so. In Massachusetts, the first session of the legislature ordered that not only freemen, but also indentured servants own firearms and in 1644 it imposed a stern 6 shilling fine upon any citizen who was not armed.

When the British government began to increase its military presence in the colonies in the mid-eighteenth century, Massachusetts responded by calling upon its citizens to arm themselves in defense.

Weapons were used for hunting, self defense, and yes, amelioration of tyranny.  It wasn’t too many days ago that we rehearsed the jihadist attack on Charlie Hebdo and the goofy “reenactment” that the boys from TTAG did.  And goofy it was, but I did have the good sense to observe that “when defending against attackers with foreknowledge and rifles, you would rather have foreknowledge and rifles yourself.”

Islamists are being given sanctuary in the U.S., and Islamic calls to prayer are heard over loud speakers in Detroit, Michigan (and have been for about a decade now).  Beyond that, tens of millions of Hispanics and Latinos have flooded across the border, some of whom included very violent gang members who have been so bathed in violence and death that they are said to perpetrate it not only for the sake of crime, but for the sake of the violence itself.  Some strategists see the capability to conduct criminal operations and perpetrate violence to be far greater among the cartels than any Middle Eastern or Asian Islamic group.

As if the potential need for self defense isn’t enough, America now has two hundred trillion dollars of unfunded liability, now has full orbed socialized medicine, and has aborted more babies than Hitler killed Jews.  The time would have come and already left that the founders of this great nation would have put their foot down and drawn a line in the sand.

But as a community we still seem to be asleep, or at least comfortably deluded.  The most instructive and educational of all of the links I have provided above comes not from the authors, although some are very good, but from the comments.  Consider this one.

As an advocate of freedom, I’m dismayed at the flawed thinking of so many not so responsible gun owners disregarding the efforts of so many responsible citizens that are trying to preserve and restore our 2nd Amendment rights. Many gun rights advocates are working hard to encourage responsible and knowledgeable leadership out of our legislature. The few that want to use a firearm as a tool of intimidation or civil disobedience will make it even more challenging for the rest of us to convince our representatives that an armed society is indeed a polite society.

Next, consider this.

While open carry may not be ‘illegal’ in a particular case, doing so is not often the right thing to do.  There was a time that, even here in California, we could sling a rifle across our shoulders and ride a motorcycle out to the range and no one freaked out. Then, we had the ‘open carry’ crowd start trying to attract attention, gathering in large groups and parading around, getting loud and vocal and,in general, acting like prissy little drama queens. As expected, people reacted.

The first commenter also slammed the open carriers for horrible muzzle control.  I am not defending poor muzzle control, and if they were brandishing or threatening in any way, they need to learn the rules of gun safety and mature a bit before doing this again.  That is both illegal and unsafe.  But that’s a side show compared to the real issue.  To the first commenter convincing his representative is what it’s all about, even though that hasn’t worked to stop socialized medicine, abortion and oppressive taxation.  From the land of make believe we come to the second commenter, for whom the problem started not with collectivists pressing down with statist gun control laws and regulations, but with open carriers who exercised their rights to carry (and what would have been the catalyst for just such a “display” as suggested, he doesn’t say – it just started happening one day I suppose).  Then there is the hand-wringer, what I consider to be the capstone of the anti-open carry argument.

While I support the concept of unfettered right to bear arms, the reality in most of these “United States” is that one’s appearance on the street with a handgun openly strapped to one’s belt is unsettling to the hordes of liberals out there, and their reaction is definitely averse to our rights, and a threat that they perceive, to them.

Whenever CCW is an available alternative, we should prefer it, and avoid any display of firearms to those idiots who oppose our rights. The objective is not to prove some point, it is to be safer and to be better able to defend ourselves and our families, and CCW serves both objectives well.

Someday perhaps, most Americans will recognize that carrying a gun is not a bizarre fetish, but is a commitment that Americans make, in order to be free, and to incidentally guarantee the freedom of those who do not understand. That day has not yet come, and will come more quickly if we avoid unnecessary confrontation.

I yearn for the day when every housewife can choose to openly strap on a handgun when she goes grocery shopping, or to the mall. Until then, CCW is a better pathway to our freedom.

That day will “come more quickly if we avoid unnecessary confrontation.”  Finally, from the delusional to the defeatist.  Consider Sebastian.

I have no problem with the “I Will Not Comply Crowd.” I live in a state with a similar regime to Washington for handguns, and it’s probably one of the most ignored laws in the commonwealth. I have no problem with civil disobedience.  I don’t disapprove of what the sticks have been doing in Connecticut, because I don’t think there’s anything we carrots can do to help the Nutmeg State, for the time being. We’re challenging the law in federal court, and maybe, maybe down the road we could federally preempt it using Section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment. That’s thin gruel, and I recognize that. But we are trying, and I think over the long run we have a good chance of being successful.

The big strategic question of gun rights in the last two years of the Obama Administration is how we defang Bloomberg, because he, without a doubt, is the single biggest threat our gun rights have faced since the 1990s. He’s not going to be intimidated by sticks; he has enough money to hire his own private army to protect him if he wishes. He’s not going to be concerned with carrots either, because most of us aren’t billionaires, and don’t have the money to throw around the political process that he does. So what do we do?

And this brings me to my main points.  Background checks are not a problem because they currently constitute a national gun registry.  If you recall my previous discussion on the subject, I played “devil’s advocate” to see just how close the ATF could come to such a monster.  I am still skeptical that the schema is in place (or could be put in place without a lot of additional pain and work).  But the danger in universal background checks is twofold.  First, it would indeed put the procedures and protocol in place for a national gun registry.  Second, it makes the government the ultimate arbiter of God-given rights.

There is an intensely moral element to control of this sort.  Gun control is evil, a sign and symptom of wicked rulersSebastian doesn’t think so.

I really don’t like it when churches insert themselves into political matters under the guise that these are really spiritual matters. Murder, rage, and vengeance — these are all matters of the spirit. Gun control is a matter of politics.

But to the educated man or woman, politics is ethics, which is a category of philosophy, or a description of a comprehensive world view, including metaphysics and epistemology.  It’s all related, and has to do with how you know what you know, how you assign truth value, and what lies beyond the physical.  That which is so intensely moral is not ripe terrain for compromise.  And a proper anthropology – a right view of mankind – knows that “the heart [of man] is deceitful above all things, and is desperately wicked” (Jeremiah 17:9).  Only God understands it, and all attempts by men to divine the intentions and correct the maladies of the heart end in despair and failure.

Lastly, there is an element of eschatology in these demurrals from the pragmatists.  They see failure where many see potential success.  But fear not, God has always had His remnant, and He will not allow liberty to perish from the earth.  The chains always fall off, sometimes by His mighty hand, other times by using us as secondary causes and only by the utmost of peril to our lives, health and wealth – but always by His kind providence.

As much as I detest the propensity to compromise, especially out of fear of defeat, and as much as I loath Gates, Bloomberg and their minions, I don’t think what they do is all that significant.  Nor do I think that Gottlieb is all that significant.  He will be irrelevant in future circles of lovers of liberty, and I don’t think he will sway many minds.  Rather, with one commenter to this piece by Clair Wolfe I think that “the seed of the larger problem lies in the troubling correlation between politically and socially conservative people and their acquiescence to, even active subservience to, authority” (see here also my Foundation of Liberty).

And as much as I am accused at times of “preaching to the choir,” I think that the choir is a rather small ensemble of singers.  The problem is one of heart, or moral fiber, and of faith.  The collectivists turn to the state as their god, and the rulers mutually enjoin the people into the herds who need the state to determine the difference between right and wrong for the great unwashed masses.

Thus, most people would have no basis on which to demur if the state decided to kill every third man named Jerry before NFL games as a sacrifice to the football gods.  Utilitarianism has a very dark side.  For those who would oppose it with force but with no foundation, they are no different than Machiavelli.  The salient and important question is whether the people will wake from their slumber in enough time to prevent the degree of pain that can come from this conflict.  There is a massive cultural and religious war going on in America, and gun control is one front in that war.  People will gird their loins and engage now, or suffer the consequences later.

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  1. On January 26, 2015 at 7:37 am, jsffly said:

    Amen….Amen

  2. On January 26, 2015 at 2:23 pm, Oregon Hobo said:

    I am an atheist and I endorse this message.

    Thank you sir, for yet again pointing out things that shouldn’t need pointing out.

    Happy trails,

    #OREGON HOBO#

  3. On January 26, 2015 at 2:35 pm, Billy Mullins said:

    Anybody who compromises with gun grabbers is like a frog in a stewpot compromising with the cook to let him only turn the heat a little bit. Sooner or later froggy is going to be frog soup.

    Could somebody tell me what background checks are good for anyhow? That is aside from providing the government with a record of who’s buying what when. I can see a WHOLE LOT more potential for bad in them than I can for good.

  4. On January 26, 2015 at 8:09 pm, Nels said:

    I am a born again Christian, and I endorse this message.

  5. On January 26, 2015 at 9:41 pm, pjb1 said:

    “Background checks are not a problem because they currently constitute a
    national gun registry. If you recall my previous discussion on the
    subject, I played “devil’s advocate” to see just how close the ATF could
    come to such a monster. I am still skeptical that the schema is in place
    (or could be put in place without a lot of additional pain and work).
    But the danger in universal background checks is twofold. First, it
    would indeed put the procedures and protocol in place for a national gun
    registry.”

    The database of gun owners is already there; it’s called NICS. It would be very naive to think otherwise. My wife could whip up that database over a weekend. Yes, ordinary government employees are incapable of it; but while there is little talent in government, they do have money, and lots of it, to buy this from private sources.

    A registry of guns is much less interesting. They don’t know or care where the guns are; they can’t even keep their Class 3 guns straight. For a confiscation, all they need to know is who the gun owners are, and which ones have the most guns. NICS gives them that.

    The reason confiscation is not happening, is NOT because they lack the information. It’s because they fear the consequences.

  6. On January 26, 2015 at 10:22 pm, Herschel Smith said:

    We debated all of this in the link I provided. NICS only gives them the sales from FFLs, not person to person. For all they know, I could have sold everything I ever bought from an FFL person to person, legally. Or, I could have bought 1500 guns since then, all from individuals. NICS doesn’t give them what they must have to make this a reliable registry. It just doesn’t. It would be a cluster **** if they tried to use it as such.

    Now. If you make this mandatory and make person to person sales illegal, that’s another story.

  7. On January 26, 2015 at 11:51 pm, Oregon Hobo said:

    There is a subtle underlying assumption that is oft overlooked in this discussion of registries cobbled from NICS and/or 4473s. Are the bad guys looking for guns, or for people? If guns, then it is true that NICS records would be of little use. If people however, it would likely be quite useful. Those making multiple recent commercial purchases likely have a high correlation with politically unfavorable gun owners.

    While some gun owners wouldn’t show up, that would mean they have no recent activity in the commercial firearms market. Thus, these are (probably) not the droids you are looking for. While it wouldn’t identify those who are highly disciplined about keeping their heads down and finding what they need via private party, it would certainly provide the targeting info needed to seriously thin the crowd.

    Also keep in mind that anyone using NICS as a source of intel on US citizens is unlikely to be relying on NICS alone. NICS offers a handy means of prioritizing individuals for further scrutiny from other sources based on # of hits.

    At least that’s how I’d approach it if I was a minion of evil.

    Cheers,

    #OREGON HOBO#

  8. On January 27, 2015 at 12:19 am, Herschel Smith said:

    Those are all good points and I don’t like the system any more than you do. They could misuse the current system, it’s true, but I could still have 1500 guns bought legally and the federal government wouldn’t necessarily know about it through NICS. They need something other than the current system, whether that’s a synthesis of other systems or a reconstituted NICS after universal background check. That’s my sole point.

  9. On January 27, 2015 at 10:31 am, Ned Weatherby said:

    Ever since Social Security Numbers were tied to all licensing – including hunting licenses –

    see 42 U.S.C. § 666 (13)(A) – the powers that be have a list of the people who applied for hunting licenses. I’m already on a CCW list. If they’re coming to get you, they know it is likely if one has a gun.
    I once worked on a case where IRS agents knew about all purchased guns a client possessed. That was back when ATF was under treasury. To be fair, it was, in this case, likely that the feds had previously performed an unlawful search of the house, and if the guns weren’t secured in a safe, could have read the serial numbers. I mentioned this anecdote to Gottlieb while he was defending himself in comments, and he had no comment.

    It’s incomprehensible to me that one supposedly “on our side” would flame those who choose liberty, and who make the panty-wetters also suffer from anal leakage by carrying long guns.
    These folks are gonna crap anytime they see a gun, or even a bulge they suspect is a gun on a concealed carrier. We are now supposed to let them have their way?

    There was a doctor who was arrested at Phoenix Sky Harbor airport for carrying an AR15. The newspapers all reported BS – a gun blog interviewed him, and he explained that the police had to approach a woman an their daughter, tell them what was happening, and ask them if they were intimidated. they replied in the affirmative, and the doctor was arrested. No newspaper carried the story. But what, exactly, were they intimidated by? The fact that they were approached by armed police and asked if they were willing to file a complaint? I find that the likely scenario.

    I used to work in Sedona. Lots of open carry there, and lots of visiting Californians, who would often go apoplectic upon seeing an open carrier. I was told, but cannot confirm – after answering calls daily and wasting resources – that finally the chief had police dispatchers explain that open carry was legal, and ask if there was another problem before having officers respond. Even some of the “Pink Jeep” tour guides carried openly.

    We shouldn’t suffer quislings in our ranks. There are way to many already. Remember divide and conquer? Remember the fudds who opine “you don’t need 30 round for deer hunting”? Or “They’re not after my $6000 trap shotgun”?

    Fudds, anti’s and members of our ranks who say “I support the Second Amendment, ‘but’….” don’t support the 2nd. The “but” disqualifies the first statement, by adding qualifiers. Don’t these people know what “shall not be infringed” means? It’s way past time to write off the “but” people.

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