The End of Gun Control: 7.5 American Exceptionalism
Civil society holds the legitimate use of force as the means of ensuring popular constitutionalism. Public officials are, by governing charter, denied a monopoly on the ultimate means of state power.
Every nation would benefit by adopting a private property legal standard, obeying a common law (for everyone) based on property integrity and voluntary exchanges, and then ensuring security and justice with an organized, armed, and disciplined population that only subcontracts limited functions while retaining the ultimate use of force, along with the right to sever their agreements with representatives, agents, and subcontractors. However, only the United States, with a federated operating charter of local subsidiarity, that clearly specifies the necessity and functions of the local militia for security and justice, provides a legal framework for most readily correcting the corruption in political institutions that currently plague humanity.
This is the true source of American exceptionalism: civil society, and not the political caste, holds the legitimate use of force as the means of ensuring popular constitutionalism. Public officials are, by governing charter, denied a monopoly on the ultimate instrument of state power.
It is here, once more, that the people of the United States must fire a proverbial shot around the world and set brushfires of liberty with a revolution of the mind. No longer can ‘gun control’ narratives frame the debate or set the agenda. No more accepting the vilification of gun owners or epithets of extremism. No more demonization of ‘right-wing’ militia groups (Of course, the militia are “conservative”, for they are protecting constitutional order, after all. Yet they are at the same time, in the truest sense “liberals” because they secure the blessings of liberty).
No more avoiding the ability and responsibility of average citizens to “take the law in their own hands” because the administration of justice and security in a free society is the responsibility of everyone, and not the exclusive purview of public officials.
Those that are physically able yet not organized, armed, and disciplined to execute the law, repel invasions, and suppress insurrections are selfish, anti-social, delinquents that are derelict of their civic duty. They deserve to be outcast to the fringes of society, and their voices marginalized, for they warrant no sound-minded citizen’s allegiance or attention and should hold no public offices or any other tax-funded position or benefit.
Being a fully qualified member of one’s local militia should be prerequisite to qualifying for any ‘public sector’ office, employment, representative seat, or decision-making authority. Again, from the local militia should ‘public servants’ emerge and to those institutions they should return when their terms of service conclude. This will eliminate a great deal of the corruption that grows from having permanent bureaucracies, career civil servants, or professional politicians. Severable contracts, surveilled by the militia, will bring market discipline and rational calculation through the signals of profit and loss to the field of politics, security and justice. This is how to economize politics or, in other words, optimize political economy.
This is the greatest contribution the study of political economy can offer at this point in history, to economize political activity by subjecting political actors to the constraints embedded in the reality of scarce resources, competing desires, and conflicting ends without resorting to aggressive property invasions. The political caste must be compelled by the array of armed citizens surveilling them to conform to the standards of civil society and surrender their ambition to live through parasitism and predation.
Of course, the bulk of the population is deluded into believing that politicians can provide for them without deleterious consequences. They have been conditioned into surrendering their liberty because they believe the hollow lies the political caste offer: material security, wealth without work, and the ability to live at the expense of someone else. The obvious result, of course, was pointed out by Benjamin Franklin. They wind up with neither liberty nor security.
Breaking this conditioning is part of the personal and social ‘discipline’ required for securing a free society and, as the great samurai swordsman Miyomoto Musashi wrote in his Book of Five Rings, The Way is in training.
A population trained in the martial arts has a deep understanding of cause-and-effect relationships in addition to a diversity of other virtues. The bullet either hit the target or it did not, there is no quibbling nor equivocation about the fact. The story about why you failed to hit the target is irrelevant in a results-oriented culture. Dispensing with non-sense and empty talk is one of the powers derived through martial training and being disciplined in this way is a civic duty held by every able-bodied citizen.
Putting an end to gun control begins in the mind by adopting philosophies that recognize how essential being organized, armed, and disciplined is for the security of a free state. This way of life ensues with strategies for restoring everyone to the equal footing of a common law and then executing it at the local level. The technical details on how to make this happen are best described in the work of groups like Tactical Civics, where the “necessary” militia institutions can be chartered in local polities to perform their essential security and justice functions.
The End of Gun Control is a revitalized look at the philosophies and strategies for securing the blessings of liberty for ourselves and our posterity, using the fullest potential of contractual self-government and the right to keep and bear arms as a necessary precondition for We The People to execute law and maintain constitutional order.
It is said that great works are never really completed but merely abandoned. There is much more to say on the topic. Yet, here is where this text ends and the real work toward The End of Gun Control begins, in the minds and actions of each individual willing to contribute to the security of a free state.