The End of Gun Control: 4.3 Prepare For A Counter Attack Against Reason
Aspiring tyrants & their cheerleaders use emotion, fear & obfuscation to agitate for greater control. Ending gun control requires cutting through these delusions with the sword of truth.
Politicians and bureaucrats will always bristle against the limits of their authority and the constraints upon their resources. They will always look for ways to enlarge their positions, their range of action, and their access to the public treasury.
To do so, they will fund studies, media campaigns, and other ways to dominate the narrative of discourse so as to justify their proposals. They may even initiate conflicts just to discredit competitors, curtail alternatives, or to justify reforming activities and institutions in a more centralized way.
It is appropriate to label political policy advocacy as “a solution in search of a problem.” The politico-bureaucratic class thrive on conflict and crisis. They never let a crisis go to waste because when people are afraid and looking for leadership it is easiest to ram through legislation and regulations that increase and centralize political authority.
The previous century, with the Great Depression, Two World Wars, the Cold War, Korean Conflict, Vietnam War, abandoning the gold exchange standard, Oil Shocks, 9/11, and now pandemic response, demonstrates a ratcheting up of ever-increasing emergency powers. Again, these new authorities always come at the expense of ordinary citizens’ right to be secure in their liberties and property.
Giving politicians and bureaucrats more resources and decision-making authority always comes at the expense of the citizens’ liberty and property. Remember, governments have no resources or authorities other than what is granted to them. Yet, giving an inch always leads to takings of excess. Politicians and bureaucrats are people too. Of course, they prefer more to less.
This is why highlighting these tendencies is not for the sake of condemning the character of office holders or to evoke scorn upon them. Our analysis and exposition exist to bring awareness to the issues, diagnose the source of dysfunction, and propose remedies through structural changes.
The solution is not more politicization of issues but less. However, moving decision making authority out of the hands of ‘public officials’ and back into that off We The People will likely trigger an hypergolic reaction. It should be fully expected that the political caste will provoke, instigate, and orchestrate campaigns and incidents to justify centralizing power.
Aspiring tyrants and the cheerleaders of tyranny use emotion, fear, and obfuscation to agitate for greater control. To end gun control requires cutting through these delusions with a sword of truth, logic, reason, and a principle.
Take heart, the supreme law of the land is on the side of liberty and security, yet the challenge is in practical implementation.