Safer Streets 2011: Peter King (R) New York is trying to make it a crime to be armed within a thousand feet of any government officials

Conservatives now reaching for gun control?

By John Longenecker
Wednesday, January 12, 2011

The liberals, we expect to be anti-gun. They want to grow government so they eliminate liberty’s safeguards one by one and try to replace you with officials or some policy.

And when you complain and use your first amendment rights of redress of grievances, they try and shut you up.

But, Golly, Batman, what do you do when conservatives start thinking like liberals right after they’ve been elected and seated?

Now Peter King (R) New York is trying to make it a crime to be armed within a thousand feet of any government officials. This after it was a private citizen or two who brought the Tucson shooter down! What do they have in the water that makes them overlook the obvious?

Gun control takes guns from people who are the law on scene in the absence of law enforcement

Let me explain something to the incoming Congress: gun control takes guns from people who are the law on scene in the absence of law enforcement. All governance rises up from the electorate, including the authority we grant law enforcement and public servants; including legislation, affirmative defenses to tort and crime filings, and the Vote. The legal authority gun owners summon in our own personal armed self-defense is well established in public policy, public interest, tort law, criminal law, a few other codified and substantive law and various doctrines, not to forget citizen arrest.

Any citizen can stop a crime in progress, any citizen can bring up to lethal force when facing grave danger.

What you saw in the Tucson incident in taking down Whatsisname was the sovereign people acting on their sovereign authority to act in stopping a crime in progress. Being free to use up to lethal force for that incident didn’t mean they had to, but they could have if they wanted. An Ed Schultz interview with Joe Zamudio exemplified something gun owners never get credit for from the anti-gun crowd and that is good judgment under pressure. We don’t even get credit from republican congressman, do we?

Is it the good samaritans who will be charged with battery of Whatsisnamne? No.

Will they be charged with excessive force? No. How about false imprisonment? No.

Will those three receive a letter of criminal complaint for “playing copâ€