The Bourgeois Right to Bear Arms

EmaChissit at cs.com EmaChissit at cs.com
Wed Apr 21 08:47:07 PDT 1999


In a message dated 4/21/99 10:40:44 AM Eastern Daylight Time, jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com writes:


> 75 religious zealots holed up in a cabin? No way. 60M armed citizens
> spread across the country? That's something completely different. See,
> you can't just kill them all. It's a deterrent. And it's real.

Not to mention that it sure makes a point, as Huey Newton, Stokely Carmichael, and Bobby Seale knew:

"The Black Panthers were and are always required to keep their activities within legal bounds...So, we studied the law about weapons and kept within our rights....The police, invariably shocked to meet a cadre of disciplined and armed Black men coming to the support of the community, reacted in strange and unpredictable ways...."

"Revolutionary Suicide" Huey P. Newton

Emma Chissitt



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