In denial of due process for Washingotonians by way of a D.C. Gun Ban, then ignoring an Appeals Court adverse ruling in due process finding the ban unconstitutional, the District of Columbia runs to the Supreme Court for Due Process.
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The Supreme Court has decided to hear D.C. v. Heller and already the disinformation spin machine is revving up and spouting exhaust.

One of the most obnoxious and objectionable utterances in the gun ban question is the overall attitude of Hizzoner Adrian Fenty, Mayor of D.C. expressed as disinformation. — after being handed down an adverse ruling that his city’s Gun Ban is unconstitutional.

This week, the Mayor said to radio news microphones that guns in the home make shooting a loved one twenty-two times more likely. D.C.’s gun ban bans weapons in the home. That hissing sound is the sound of doubt for the case, the hissing coming out as Wind.

This figure, of course, has been disproved for a while. Let’s revisit one powerful source by linking to a quick note furnished by our colleague, Howard Nemerov, who is one of our organization’s Board of Advisors. See his brief analysis, Right-To-Carry: Discredited fantasy?

As the case comes forward, there could be expected some important adversities and important opportunities.

DISINFORMATION will be present as has been sent up by the Mayor along with other officials opposed to Liberty. Gun bans are the foe of independent authority of the People, and are the foe of safety, because they obfuscate citizen authority to act. At the nation’s inception, the Founding Fathers knew citizen authority had to be backed by force, and forever, if the new nation was to survive, and gun owners have been very good caretakers of that authority. It’s not the 80 million gun owners in America committing the 10,177 gun-related homicides here, but the 2.5 million de-escalations of violence without even firing their weapon.

Translation: it is the conspicuous absence of self-defense shootings across America that tells the story. Because, 2.5 million times a year, it’s a crime that did not happen, because the armed citizen de-escalated the aggression without firing their weapon.

Not only is it wiser to ban the gun bans, but to repeal a great deal of the anti-gun policy, such as making brandishing a weapon a crime.

For instance, at what point does one’s brandishing a weapon morph into a purposeful act of self-defense by drawing the weapon in preparing to respond with lethal force, but finding at the very last second that showing the weapon has been sufficient to stop the violence?

The result is not only de-escalation of a violent act, and prevention of a serious act of violence, but a non-shooting.

And this happens 2.5 million times a year. Within this large and under-reported number, the target is the first line of defense; it takes the lead with citizen authority and superior force, fully prepared to shoot to stop grave danger without hesitation — only to read correctly and quickly that drawing down with a loaded weapon was sufficient, and no one gets hurt.

Discipline, training, courage and purpose. This is gun control.

AT-ISSUE: What is at issue will be decided by the Court. For Americans, the question could be a matter of government’s assuming powers not granted [as in D.C.] versus Liberty in the hands of the supreme authority of the nation where it belongs nationwide; with the Citizens, with lethal force to back that authority. This could be what is really at issue.

And finally, GOOD WILL. Gun owners are not only the most civil and self-restrained of Americans with such power as a handgun, but gun owners are also the very best good will ambassadors of the entire Bill Of Rights.

It is not the gun owners who commit the violence, it is the criminal, and gun bans have no such discernment. This has to stop.

The D.C. Circuit, which ruled the ban as unconstitutional, also rejected D.C.’s claim that the Second Amendment does not apply to the District of Columbia because D.C. is not a state.

There is more at issue – more at stake – than a gun ban: the entire nation’s solution to crime and violence is now within our reach.

The Founders knew that abuse of process – such as a gun ban, and the utter defiance of an Appeals Court ruling the subject ban unconstitutional – would occur in any age, in any era, in any administration. The civil right to be armed with our anywhere/anytime, instance-by-instance personal authority and the lethal force which backs it was good for the country then, and it’s good for the country now.

And it always will be good for the country.
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John Longenecker is author of The Case For Nationwide Concealed Carry Of Handguns.

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