Time for RKBA DU'ers to make a choice...the NRA or the USA?

[HankyDub]

180. I know you don't care what he said

Because if you did, you couldn't possibly make this sick attempt to use his memory to advocate for your cause.

He was anything but an advocate for your cause.

I find your interpretation of the quote you edited to add to be "interesting." To compare today's paranoid and overwhelmingly white gun rights movement to the struggle of black people in the civil rights era south is pretty vile. This brings me back to the NRA, which fully supports the new Jim Crow voter ID laws being pushed by the right all across the country.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/05/25/teammates-nra-news-introduces-alecs-voter-id-su/163485

So once again, if you actually give a shit about what you claim to care about, one of the first things you need to do is abandon and denounce the NRA.


The companies used the power of the state. Police, national guard, and active duty military.

No doubt about it. The oppressor will always have the upper hand when the oppressed resort to violence. Guns are instruments of oppression. I'd like to see our police forces be disarmed, but that isn't likely to happen when they are constantly confronted by armed citizens. It isn't reasonable to expect the police to disarm in that situation.

When it comes to the military, that's a larger cultural question in my opinion. In order to dismantle the oppressive military apparatus, we need to start with a cultural shift. We need to stop lionizing current and former military as valorous heroes and freedumb defenders and recognize what they are actually doing. What they are actually doing is operating the enforcement arm of the US's vicious corporate backed foreign policy agenda, which is in direct opposition to the actual interests of the average US citizen. As such, being a current or former member of these organizations is something to be deeply ashamed of.

Then, if/when we scale back the operational capacity of these organizations or eliminate them altogether, we can return to the true intent of the authors of the 2nd amendment, namely a citizens militia whose purpose is defense from foreign invaders, not projecting imperial power.