Patriot,

In states across America, Campaign for Liberty grassroots
activists have led the effort to prevent dangerous "Red Flag"
legislation that would strip citizens of their Second Amendment
rights without due process of law.

As I explain in my most recent column (which you can read below),
restricting the fundamental right to self-defense doesn't reduce
violence; it encourages it - and given the government's own
propensity for violence, one has to wonder if this isn't the real
intention.

Sadly, without organized opposition, these bills have seen
support not only from Democrats, who typically oppose gun rights,
but even some Republicans, who generally claim to support them.

That's why it's so important we spread the word and inform our
fellow patriots of the danger inherent in these bills.

Read my latest column below, and if you can help our efforts to
defend the Second Amendment as well as our other constitutional
rights, please consider supporting Campaign for Liberty with a
contribution today.
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Thanks for all you do,

Ron Paul

Gun Control Debate Ignores the Real Problems

Gun control advocates continue to claim that only restrictions on
gun ownership will keep people safe from mass shooters and other
criminals. However, good people with guns can stop bad people
with guns. And bad people will still have guns despite gun
control laws. Further weakening the argument that restricting
private firearms ownership will reduce violent crimes is the fact
that states with "constitutional carry" - where individuals are
free to exercise their Second Amendment rights without seeking
permission from the government - have lower homicide rates than
states with more restrictive gun laws.

One policy that is popular among gun control supporters and some
who normally support the Second Amendment but want to "do
something" about gun violence is red flag laws. These laws allow
law enforcement to confiscate an individual's guns based on a
report that the individual poses a threat to public safety. Red
flag laws allow governments to restrict the exercise of a
constitutionally protected right without due process.

Another weakness in the argument that more restrictive gun laws
will reduce violence is that many of the cities and states with
the highest incidence of violent crime have restrictive gun laws.
Gun control supporters try to explain this by blaming individuals
who bring guns from states with more permissive gun laws into
states with more restrictive gun laws. The guns can, though, at
the same time be coming from states with less violent crime into
states with more violent crime. But, if guns were the problem,
then violent crime would be higher in states with permissive gun
laws than in states with more legal restrictions related to
firearms.

The gun control debate ignores the root causes of rising
violence, which is a symptom of the decline of traditional
morality that respected every individual's inalienable right to
life, liberty, and property. This traditional morality has been
replaced with a nihilistic philosophy that denies moral law and
natural rights. Instead, it justifies doing whatever one feels is
necessary to achieve one's goals.

This disregard for a higher moral law finds expression in a
foreign policy that then-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright
famously supported while defending US sanctions that starved
Iraqi children. The US is viewed as the world's "indispensable
nation," and whatever it does is automatically considered right,
regardless of the human suffering caused by the US government's
overseas interventions.

We also see this expression of disregard for a higher moral law
in support for abortion that is based on the idea that preborn do
not have the right to life. Whether the baby lives or dies is
called a matter of "choice."

Should we be surprised a society produces mass shooters and other
psychopaths when government, schools, media, entertainment, and
even some churches promote nihilism that devalues human life?

While government can undermine morality, it cannot promote
virtue. Any attempt to use government power to "make people good"
will inevitably result in tyranny. It will also lead to a less
virtuous population. Instead, those seeking to replace the
nihilism with a philosophy that recognizes that all humans are
born with inalienable rights should work to restore limited
constitutional government that does not attempt to provide for
the people's material or spiritual needs.
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