The End of Gun Control: 5.6 Gun Controllers Thrive on Ambiguity
Because property-based legal standards are clear & offer no special privileges to anyone (i.e., equality), the greatest threat to universally consistent scientific law comes from the political caste.
Calls for putting people over property are really presenting a false choice. Property is meaningless without people and the whole purpose of property rights is to support people’s well-being through social harmony. Without people in need of peaceful coexistence among others, there would be no need for property.
Property, again, is but a right to exclusive control of a given resource that includes one’s own body as well as the material things that they have either developed out of raw materials or received as gifts or through trade. The purpose of property rights is to create a sphere of unimpeded action for the owner while also signaling to others a boundary to avoid generating conflict. Property is a tool for human peace.
The practical path to a peaceful, prosperous society is the strict observance of property rights.
Scientific justice, a consistent, universally applicable means of determining proper conduct in human relations, depends upon discovering if, and by whom, property was violated and then rendering adequate compensation to make the victim whole.
Law, then, is the codification of expected behaviors organized for maintaining justice so that people can enjoy their property in relative security.
People are, however, fallible human beings acting in a realm of uncertainty and subject to the noxious emotions of ignorance, anger, and greed. Every society, no matter how prosperous or enlightened, must arrange for the administration of justice. In this there will always be a need for legal professionals and warriors.
Enlightenment thinker, John Locke, in his Second Treatise of Government, summarized the whole purpose of enacting government is to have someone to lead a people in their battles against invaders and to settle disputes among them internally. Again, external security and internal justice are the sole purposes for enacting government. Period.
To this end, the simply stated, scientific, law applies to both cases. It also bears repeating and propagating throughout society until everyone understands it clearly:
Do all you have agreed to do and do not encroach upon other people or their property.
Invasion or attack from outside the territorial jurisdiction calls for security. Disputes among citizens within the territory requires justice. Both external security and internal justice use property boundaries to identify when violations occur.
This clear formulation of law allows no room for coercive redistribution of private property. It offers no space for theft, fraud, or licentious privilege at another’s expense. Crimes and torts are based on human actions that encroach upon other people and their justly held property, not on inanimate objects.
A legal order that protects private property offers no allowance for ‘gun control’ and, with this foremost in mind, the clear boundaries of order provided by property boundaries must be the basis for justice in a free society.
Because property-based legal standards are so clear and offer no special privileges to anyone (i.e., equality under the law), the greatest impediment and threat to a system of universally consistent scientific law comes from the political caste of elected officials, bureaucrats, cronies, and interest groups. This is why these groups write and enact highly complex legal documents, it is necessary for them to insinuate expansive authorities for their own benefit into the function of law.
These subsets of the population depart from We The People, by virtue of deriving their authority and privileges through the instruments of state power and, most importantly, acquiring their subsistence through the expropriation of others. These people are not We The People. Their incentives are at crossed purposes to the taxed, regulated, licensed, and manipulated public body.
This is why they, public officials, are categorically distinct, considered exceptions to and separate from, the Whole Body of the People in George Mason’s definition of the militia, the actual executors of the supreme law of the land.
It should be obvious at this point that the preponderance of regulatory executive agencies currently in existence have no legitimacy in the execution of law and are, indeed, anathema to a free state. They are standing armies in every practical sense, illustrate the depth of the Deep State, and are the most insidious threat to personal liberty. They must be permanently dismantled to allow constitutional order to reign.
Policy makers can write legislation and enact policies to the furthest extent of the authority delegated to them yet must rely upon We The People to have any of it brought into practical effect. To do this, in a constitutional manner, the legislation and policies must comport with reason, legal contract, and popular will at the local level.
The whole body of the people, except for the few public officials, must understand, support, and be willing to enforce the legislation. To do this, the orders must be clear and reflect universal values.
If not, the enacted policies become dead letters because local nullification of unlawful or convoluted legislation is the rightful remedy in a decentralized federation of cooperating polities, i.e., free states.
A private property standard is the only basis for equality under the law. Physical property boundaries, beginning with the human body, offer the sole tangible, inter-subjectively verifiable, and logically consistent model of legal codification.
All other bases of law rely upon human fallibility, privileges to a select, corruptible, caste of law givers, and ensure a slippery slope toward inevitable centralized authority and ultimate tyranny.
The private property legal standard is essential to putting an end to gun control, while protecting every other genuine liberty, and is also necessary to securing a well-functioning federal republic.