I’ve never quite understood government’s fascination with gun control. Having lived most of my pre-California life in Vermont and Texas, the People’s Republik of Kalifornistan’s obsession with eliminating personally owned firearms confounded me. Under the notion that understanding the problem is the first step to solving it, I’ve developed my theory of governments and guns.
Big governments don’t just dislike guns; they hate them. They hate them so much, they don’t want you to have them. But it is a contradictory opposition. They don’t completely oppose guns, only the ones they don’t have. It is of course all about power and control.
To understand this relationship, I needed to step back and look at the goal of big government. From what I’ve seen, the goal is simply to be bigger, the bigger the better.
Why have a 10-person department when you can have 100? If a one million dollar budget is good, a 10 million dollar one is even better. If there is something you can do that isn’t being done now, do it! It doesn’t matter if the actual need isn’t there, is duplicated, triplicated or more elsewhere. It doesn’t matter if it doesn’t actually work or people don’t want it. It doesn’t matter if it can be done cheaper and better by someone else. And it certainly doesn’t matter if doing it causes more problems than it creates, you can always create a new solution to the problem you just created! The more budget and personnel you have, the more power you have.
But that is only half the equation. The other half is controlling as much of peoples lives as possible. How does a government do that? Easy, you try to solve any problem you can think of, even if it’s not really a problem or – and this one is key – if you were the one who caused the problem in the first place. The more “solutions” you can provide services for, the more control of lives you can achieve. Every aspect of your waking life can be subjected to the state’s control. Once you get a hook in somewhere, it’s easy to increase or adjust the control to your desired effect through additional administrative regulations. The devil is always in the details.
So where do guns come into this equation? Simply put, firearms allow individuals to control one of the most basic elements of their lives; their own personal safety and the safety of their families. Eliminate the ability of individuals to defend themselves, and they become more reliant on the state.
If you want to see what happens when you eliminate lawfully owned firearms, look no further than the failed social experiments in the United Kingdom and Australia. After declaring virtually every lawfully owned firearm an unacceptable public safety risk – since everyone with a firearm is on the verge of a shooting spree at any time – and regulating the remaining ones nearly out of existence, defending yourself from violence was essentially outlawed. What was the result? Increases in violent crime and more helpless victims. And what of the guns? The criminals still have them; they never bought into this whole disarmament thing. And being criminals, they can always get more. Don’t believe it? Take a look at how many firearms are recovered from criminals by the police in the UK and Australia every single day.
So where does a disarmed public turn to for help? Since personally owned firearms are no longer an option, remember – every firearm owner is a threat to public safety in the eyes of the state; they turn to the government. As crime goes up, the public demands safety. This means more taxes for more police, more courts, more prisons, more victims programs, more rehabilitation programs, more drug programs, more education programs, more administrators, more regulators… more government.
The government will never and can never be there to protect you, only scoop up the pieces into to a long plastic bag. Disarming law-abiding citizens only turns them into law-abiding victims. When we allow our right to defend ourselves and our families to be stripped away, relying solely on the government to provide for us in every situation, we give up more than our safety and security, we give up our freedom.
Bob
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