Of course, his claims are partly hollow, as he and his anti-gun crusaders stir up bigotry against gun owners at every turn for political advantage. But so far as overcoming racial, ethnic, and sexual bigotry, we're on roughly the same page, and I hope the libertarian movement leads the way in moving past all bigotry. Of course, Bill Clinton talks of freedom even as he plans for more federal programs to run other peoples' lives. But Clinton doesn't have the slightest clue what constitutes genuine freedom, even though he's an expert at evoking emotionalized responses with that term. Freedom is not politicians and bureaucrats running the lives of the citizens.
Freedom is unfettered property rights, minimal government, and self-responsibility.
The good news is that people are sick of statism and socialism. The federal government can do nothing to advance freedom except to get the hell out of the way and stop usurping the individual civil liberties of the people. Johnson is totally off base. It's totally healthy for people to keep emergency supplies around, and to purchase guns for self-defense. Indeed, one of the reasons rioters didn't show their faces is that they know Americans are fairly heavily armed.