The Bourgeois Right to Bear Arms

[Christopher Niles]

Preference for armed or non-violent resistance aside, does anybody on 
this list really believe that the state can control arms? I believe that 
radicals and revolutionaries have a moral obligation to explore all 
non-firearms means (including non-violence) by which people can both 
defend themselves against an authoritarian state and destroy the same. 
But if all fails, I reserve the moral right--with all of it's tragic 
dimensions--to defend myself AND/OR promote a more free society with 
arms. The idea of a state monopoly on guns is morally and ethically 
offensive to me.

Right now, I'm listening to commentary on the shooting in Colorado, all 
of which has been utterly reactionary, not unlike the comments expressed 
so far on the list (excepting Doug's): Not a word about the legitimate, 
if undisciplined and unanalyzed, rage that these kids feel; nothng about 
the failure of radicals over the years to provide some critical 
idealogical and political avenues of expression for these kids; not a 
word about the fundamentally anti-youth tendencies of American schools; 
nothing about the tell-tell differences between what white kids tend to 
do with guns and what Black kids tend to do with guns...why is anybody 
shocked that this is happening? 

niles
"abolish the white race, by any means necessary."