The End of Gun Control: 7.3 Organic Governance
The whole people, except a few public officials, organized, armed & disciplined, is necessary to the security of a free state & decentralized republican government cannot endure without them.
The philosophy behind putting an end to ‘gun control’ recognizes the requirement for a population of citizen-warriors; the whole body of the people except the “few public officials” must be organized, armed, and disciplined to execute the laws, repel invasions, and suppress insurrections, locally and in cooperation with their neighbors. Indeed, maintaining equal justice under law can tolerate no privileges or licenses to violate individual rights. This requires an extremely circumscribed realm of discretion for public officials. They are most inclined to pervert the standards of justice and turn government into a looting machine. Surveilling and interdicting the criminal tendencies of public officials is the most important ‘law enforcement’ function We The People must attend to.
Putting the principle of self-determination into operation depends upon active popular engagement in the enforcement of law, where it really counts. Words on paper are just ideas. Who enforces the law is much more important than who writes it or what it says.
At the same time, putting an end to gun control requires recognition that true law is begotten, not made. It is embedded in the fabric of a reality composed of time, space, and form. It recognizes that all conflict stems from the fact that physical resources are scarce, that people have competing interests for using those scarce resources, and the purpose of law is to mitigate the incidence of conflict so as to enjoy social harmony, peaceful cooperation, and the increased living standards available only through commerce.
Justice is discovered by examining the facts of each case to determine legitimate property titles, if and how property boundaries were violated, or what contracts to exchange property govern the specific human relationships in question. Under this disciplined approach, due process dispels all opportunities for corruption by denying the legality of general writs or privileges based on status, including the status of holding an official position. This property-contract-centric legal standard dispenses with abstractions, like ‘social justice’, ‘climate justice’, “redistributive justice”, or any other excuse the political caste can cook up to steal other people’s property.
It also happens to be the only way to put a permanent end to gun control. As stated earlier, the right to keep and bear arms will never be safe so long as legal standards are arbitrarily pronounced through political whim. Law needs to be scientifically reproduceable without regard for personalities. Legal standards need to be impersonal, consistent, and specific. Further, a private property legal standard is the only one that can be universally applied to all persons, at all times, simultaneously.
Therefore, those who want to put an end to gun control must get the legal theory correct and then seek to organize for its efficient, consistent, and sustained enforcement. The legal principles are simple, clear, coherent, and transcendent: Do all you have agreed to do and do not encroach on other persons or their property.
The End of Gun Control also readily acknowledges that “well regulated militia”, meaning decentralized organizations of disciplined and armed citizens, actively engaged in law enforcement and security operations throughout their local communities, is essential to the functioning of republican government, and even more so for a federation of republics. Indeed, they are necessary to the security of a free state and a “republican form of government” cannot exist for long without them.
At the same time, each citizen must recognize the “well regulated militia” are inherently governmental institutions, aimed at communal security, law, and order. As such, they cannot emerge out of individualistic ambitions or a belief in anomy, the absence of social norms.
It should also be recognized that social order includes hierarchies and the “organized” and “disciplined” nature of “well regulated militia” involves leadership. The key distinction between exercising leadership and authority in a local militia versus the perverse privileges afforded to the political caste is the mutual contract between the members.
Here is a good point to highlight that I am not forming a militia. I couldn’t even if I wanted to. Again, the militia are inherently “governmental” institutions, they are the practical expression of self-determination and necessary to the security functions of a freely formed polity. Militia are chartered to perform the security functions within these governmental jurisdictions.
Even in the absence of these “necessary” institutions the first priority for a newly formed militia is to restore constitutional order. Additionally, even if the militia were not crucial to the operation of republican government throughout the American federation, We The People would need to create them in order to enjoy the liberty, security, justice, and domestic tranquility governments are constituted to provide in the first place.