[lbo-talk] Where is the left argument for gun rights?

Michael Smith mjs at smithbowen.net
Thu May 9 18:18:09 PDT 2013


On Thu, 9 May 2013 20:55:24 -0400 Marv Gandall <marvgand2 at gmail.com> wrote:


> The conservative
> bourgeoisie in particular has enlisted its working class and small
> property owner base, congregated in and around the Republican party

*Snore*


> the Democratic Party and kindred social
> democratic parties,

The Donks are a social democratic party? In what parallel universe? And what parties are 'kindred' to them -- apart, of course, from the Republicans?


> the Republican leadership happily supports the self-arming of its
> base. Therefore no gun control.

O those bad old Republicans again!

On the other hand, the cops are very much in favor of gun control. Presumably in this case they constitute -- what? -- an 'objectively progressive' force?

Gun control is a core liberal fetish, like 'diversity'. Lefties shouldn't give it a second's thought, one way or the other.



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