The End of Gun Control: 6.4 Definitively Demonstrate the Discipline
A society of organized, armed, & disciplined individuals has greater personal faculties and discernment, and is therefore less susceptible to deception. It also cultivates higher-quality leaders.
Being organized, armed, and disciplined, both personally and socially, is a civic responsibility. The real question to ask is why those derelict of this duty are being so selfish. Further, anyone impeding the right to keep and bear arms, or the free market of trade in this uniquely protected form of property, is undermining constitutional order.
Remember, if you have to ask permission or obtain a license to buy, own, use, trade, or sell an object the right of property is infringed. These are key identifying features of encroachment. Undermining property rights in whatever arms are suitable to executing law, repelling invasions, or suppressing insurrections likewise diminishes the security of a free state.
This blows out of the realm of legitimate discourse any discussion of restricting magazine capacities, accessories, or features to the arms suitable for performing the necessary civic duty. It also prevents any subsidiary polity within the federation (states, counties, cities, towns, or wards) from infringing on the right to keep and bear arms. After all, these polities also have a responsibility to furnish organized, armed, and disciplined militia units, when ‘called forth’ for the sake of each other and the whole federation.
Individually and collectively, being organized, armed, and disciplined is an essential duty in a free society. It is time to reject the demonization of armed culture and, instead, embrace it. To take the slings and arrows of slander is to be expected. Those involved in modern “gun control” have strong incentives to disarm the population and subject them to further parasitism and predation. Even the ‘true believers’ in gun control are acting out of ignorance and fear. This is why they feel so compelled to affix the “gun nut” label to anyone looking to assert constitutional order.
This is why martial training is such a crucial element for the “whole body” of the population. The discipline of training builds confidence and provides experience in the principles of cause and effect. Non-sensical hysteria and quibbling excuses fall away in a results-oriented, consequence-laden environment.
Either you hit the mark, or you failed. Your performance demonstrates whether you put in sufficient time and effort to achieve the standards of proficiency. Your story about why you failed does not matter.
One of my martial arts teachers once said, “don’t tell me you’ve been doing your suburi (repeated striking practice with a sword), just show me your wrists”! Those that swing and strike with a samurai sword develop forearms that look like wooden logs and it is relatively simple to see who has put in the work.
Similarly, those that fire a pistol enough will develop a callous on the web between their thumb and index finger. This is why there’s no need for idle chatter among the well trained, the results speak for themselves and demonstrate for all to see.
A population so disciplined to execute law, repel invasions, and suppress insurrections would also be more results oriented than the masses today that are consumed with materialism, sensationalism, and apathy. They would also have less susceptibility to the empty promises of the political caste.
Not only does a society of organized, armed, and disciplined individuals has greater personal faculties and capacity for discernment, it also enjoys the cultivation of proven leaders. This goes beyond merely demonstrating proficiency in the use of arms, but also includes organizational skills, teaching abilities, and decision-making abilities under stress.
The emergence of ‘natural elites’, disciplined through training and armed with experience, and freely chosen by actual peers, will restore authentic representation for the administration of ‘public things’ (res publica) throughout the federation of cooperating polities.
Of course, to make representation work at scale, administrative changes need to occur, most notably removing the cap on the number of seats in the US Congress, set at 435 based on a corrupt 1929 piece of reapportionment legislation. This is just one of many structural issues that need to be addressed through representative bodies, yet will likely remain unchanged so long as the political caste enjoys an effective monopoly on governmental institutions.
Voting harder will not change anything. The longer the state continues to metastasize, the more invasive and pernicious it will become. As currently configured, politics is a negative sum equation. The state exists through coercive expropriation of private property and gun control is a key line of effort in the political caste’s subsistence strategy. Ultimately, they need a disarmed population to clear the path toward decision-making authority over every resource within their jurisdiction, especially the human variety.
Next, the political caste has a strong incentive to expand the size and scope of the political jurisdiction they control. Since the Weberian definition of a state is characterized by monopoly, like the eliminative contest of immortals in the movie Highlander, there can be only one.
Interaction between states is, at the most fundamental level, a competition for supremacy. Any calls for “sharing”, “compromise”, or “partnership” from a politician, bureaucrat, crony, or the vast tapestry of influencers for their cause needs to be viewed as a ruse designed to undermine private property rights and a resource grab. It is the same as calls for ‘sensible’ gun control, which is nothing less than underhanded language to justify gradualist infringements on specifically protected rights aimed at complete usurpation.
States cannot share jurisdictions no matter how much their charters claim the ability. The US Constitution is a prime example of failure in this regard and the concerns held by Patrick Henry, mentioned above, validate this fact. Shared use of the militia, between the general government and the member states led to their effective abolition.
Limiting the general government to enumerated delegated authorities has failed as have the states within the federation to check the inclination toward centralization. Member states within the European Union are witnessing their autonomy and sovereignty wither away to the ambitions of central planners as well. Sovereignty cannot be shared and neither can property rights. Discerning division is the only peaceful and sustainable way to coexist.
The science of peace is the observation of mine versus thine.