The Bourgeois Right to Bear Arms

Richard Gibson rgibson at pipeline.com
Wed Apr 21 14:35:23 PDT 1999


At 09:52 AM 4/21/99 -0400, you wrote:
>> You want the state to have
>> a monopoly
>> over arms?
>
Then another wrote---


>Yes. The notion that an armed citizenry could present any kind of
>meaningful opposition to the Pentagon running amok (*domestically,* that
>is) is ludicrous.
>

The Vietnamese did pretty well. Then they gave up their guns to their own leaders.

People who want social change, but who want to disarm the people, either misunderstand power, or are not on the side of the people.

This recent incident is more about the rise of fascist ideology, and child abuse, than archaic gun laws. Note that more or less similar incidents in the ghettoes of Detroit or Chicago, get a passing glance from the media--then on to "important" things. But these kids are rich! How could that ever happen?

Rich Gibson Program Coordinator of Social Studies Wayne State University College of Education Detroit MI 48202 http://www.pipeline.com/~rgibson/index.html

Life travels upward in spirals.

Those who take pains to search the shadows

of the past below us, then, can better judge the

tiny arc up which they climb,

more surely guess the dim

curves of the future above them.



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