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

[gejohnston]

181. Now I remember why I dumped the Green Party

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.

No, I did not edit nor did I add anything. What evidence do you have that the NRA supports voter suppression laws? ALEC might push the agenda of members, but that does not mean all members agree or want the same things.

I'm not a member of the NRA, and MM is hardly a hardly an objective source anymore than townhall is. One is right, one is left, but the honesty of both are less than ideal. The only reason David Brock switch sides was because his benefactors did not like him being slightly nice to Mrs. Clinton and when he came out. The latter got him fired from the American Spectator. The was a smear artist then. Now he is simply getting even. His spots did not change.

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.

That is the stupidest pile of pseudo intellectual bullshit I have read in a long time. That is why I quit supporting the Green Party. These "armed citizens" are also oppressors. Gangsters and predators are oppressors. The only difference is one is supported by taxes and the other is supported by greed and the drug culture. In Norway and New Zealand, the police are disarmed, but the citizens are not.

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.

I won't waste my time with this drivel. As a veteran, go fuck yourself.

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.

A lot more complex than that, but a Swiss model military would be better. The 2A doesn't have a fucking thing to do with the MIC.