"It is as American as cherry pie.”A 'Scary' Survey Finding: 4 In 10 Republicans Say Political Violence May Be Necessary https://t.co/IJLY5aMHqt
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) February 11, 2021
And, of course, violence is good so long as it’s used against you but not me.
Let's be honest. The second amendment, as currently interpreted, is the right to commit violence. Stand you ground laws are just extensions of this right to commit violence in a broad range of circumstances. A regular justification for owning firearms is the right to overthrow the government by committing violence. Free speech, free assembly, freedom to practice religion, these are often seen as universal rights. Only America has this right to commit violence baked into our basic government. It makes sense when you realize that our "founding fathers" were slave holders. Human bondage is based on violence, a daily violence doled out directly or indirectly by the slave holder. Of course this right to commit violence is premised on being the perpetrator of violence, not the receiver. In this way, the right to commit violence arises straight from the white supremacy that has been in our constitution from the beginning, and continues to today. Gun rights, the right to commit violence are rights for whites. The NRA (along with much of our legal system) is strangely silent when gun rights are exercised by people of color.
ReplyDeleteH. Rap Brown and the Black Panthers understood that. They scared white Californians shitless when they started carrying guns openly, something allowed under California law at the time. All of a sudden that simple, legal act, was very threatening.
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