We have a "right" to own guns, but not a right to health care, food, shelter, clothing, employment

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104. For some of us that act of defiance is in demonstrating in the streets abouthe issues & candidates.

Of the 2 different cohorts, which might have more connection to the problems: one with guns in cabinets in their houses or hidden on their persons, or the other with informative signs and loud voices in the streets.

I am very familiar with defiance, have been much of my life as somewhat of a social outsider backed by a large close family. Defiance motivates me on phone-banks, petition drives, and door-to-door canvasses, on street-corners, in D.C., and on the poor side of this town. It's me saying, "Fuck You!" to everything that tries to tell us that we don't count, I'm saying TTE, "I know intimately about all of the stuff that tells me 'it's pointless, futile, doesn't matter. stay home. clean a closet,'" but fuck all of that anyway. Something is always more than nothing. I may not know just exactly how much more, nor why, but at least that something is going to get a chance to be more than nothing, because I'm going to see to it that whatever it is it get's done, because I'M going to do it, even when I am just one of the very few who show up to do the work of change.

If people were REALLY defiant, they wouldn't be hiding behind guns until it's too late to change whatever's coming at them.