What We Believe, Part 6: Immigration

The US has no real ethnicity, no unique language to unify us. What unifies this nation is the rule of law. Our nation is conceptually founded on the principle that a free people can set its own laws and those who wish to live free agree to abide by them. Laws that don’t work can be repealed or replaced through the open processes of representative government, and in some cases direct democracy (referendums, in some states). Those who break the laws of a free people should be subject to prosecution — and those who break the law of a free nation in order to gain entry into it should not profit from that lawbreaking.

Thus, illegal immigration and tolerance for it insults those who legally migrate to the US, a process almost everyone supports. It also insults the rule of law to offer those lawbreakers amnesty, especially a second time. Besides, securing the border is one of the few legitimate duties that the federal government has under the Constitution, and perhaps it should focus on doing that right before arrogating other authorities and jurisdictions to itself.

What We Believe, Part 5: Gun Rights

Bill addresses the plague of gun-related homicides found in the US by pointing out that the epicenters of such plagues rarely coincide with higher densities of legal gun ownership, which means guns are a secondary issue and not the primary cause. It’s impossible to encapsulate Bill’s argument in anything less than the efficient manner in which he does so in this video: