that whole “second amendment” thing

I’m going to go out on a limb here and offend all the liberal-progressive types who think I’m a crazy radical anyway, and say that I completely and totally agree with the “conservative” arguments for why the Virginia Tech shooting is not a good reason for more “gun control”.

The difference, of course, is that – in addition to agreeing with them that gun control isn’t the answer, I’m opposed to the entire concept of gun control itself for 1 simple reason:

The second amendment isn’t about duck hunting. it’s about the right of “we the people” to “alter or abolish” any government that becomes “destructive of these ends” – “these ends”, of course, being “life liberty and the pursuit of happiness”.

In other words, the anti-federalists – who were the actual majority in post-revolution America (but were systematically disenfranchised by property requirements that prevented poor people from voting) and included many of my ancestors – fought against the ratification of the United States Constitution because they believed that it would create a government too powerful & too centralized, a government that would slowly but surely become even more oppressive then the one they had just overthrown. The Bill of Rights was the concession that rose out of their struggle, which is why its a series of Amendments to the constitution and not part of the document itself. Reading the bill of rights its immediately obvious that the rights protected are exactly and precisely the rights needed by a nation to overthrow its government; which is one of many reasons why COINTILPRO and the ongoing suppression of radicals by the US government – a policy supported by both Democrats and Republicans – is so foul. If the majority supports the State then the State has nothing to fear from revolutionaries because revolutionaries will never be able to overthrow the state without majority support, and if the majority does support revolution then the state has NO RIGHT to oppose that revolution, period. In either scenario the massive and bureaucracies devoted to counter-insurgence (FBI, CIA, NSA, Homeland Security, etc.) are unconstitutional, as is any law attempting to limit the rights of “we the people” to arm ourselves however we see fit in order to overthrow the State if and when the majority decides that such a step is necessary.

We have the constitutional right to revolution in America; it is the critical and most important part of our legacy of struggle from the revolutionary era, and a piece of our heritage that we have sadly neglected. MY ancestors fought for that right and paid for it with their blood, and there’s no way in hell I’m going to let some snake-tongued politician talk me into giving that right up. As Benjamin Franklin put it “those who would exchange freedom for security deserve neither freedom nor security”. The right to bear arms is a critical part of our history, our birthright handed down – not from the government or the “founding fathers” – but from the working class majority that fought against the creation of the same centralized government bureaucracy that we are still fighting today. If we allow the State to take it away from us we lose far more then handguns, we lose our hidden strength, our ace in the hole, the one legacy we have left of our legacy as a nation born from anti-imperialist and anti-colonial struggle.

The mainstream left knows this, and that’s why they’re so obsessed with gun control – it wasn’t until the Black Panthers exercised their rights, after all, that Democrats decided guns were a menace to society. That’s a fact; check the chronology and the history yourself. It’s sad that the only people who still support this most fundamental guarantee of all civil rights – the right to bear arms and with it the right to revolution – are “conservatives”. It’s a pretty sick state of affairs, and just one more indication of how pathetically spineless and ethically bankrupt the liberal left in this country is. Not that the conservatives are any better.

As for the Virginia Tech shooting, it has nothing to do with the debate on guns or gun control. If anything it should open a debate about what kind of a sick dehumanizing society we have created where suicide is one of the leading causes of death among teenagers and violence is commonplace in all arenas of our lives – from domestic abuse to the gladiator-pit we call Hollywood where murder and warfare are entertainment. Our young people murder each other because we have taught them that human dignity and human life are not worth respecting and that it is glorious and heroic to kill people.

For one glaring example, look at what we’ve done to Iraq and the way every mainstream politician insists on referring to the troops as “heroes” while they carry out a war for oil that is anything but heroic. The real heroes among the troops are the ones who do what the Nuremberg trials declared it is every enlisted persons duty and right to do – to refuse to carry out immoral orders, refuse to deploy, refuse to fight for a war that is immoral and illegal in every way. For any sane society armed conflict may sometimes be necessary, but it is never glorious, never heroic. It is the last-ditch defense when all else has failed. I am obviously not a pacifist, but the moral difference between fighting a revolution to overthrow a tyrannical and criminal government at home and fighting an imperialist war of conquest should be obvious to everyone. John Brown (the reporter not the revolutionary) wrote an article last week comparing Cho to George Bush, but that just scratches the surface. It’s bigger then the our coke-head in chief, Clinton was just as bad (just ask the Bosnians), so was Bush I before him, and Reagan before him. Violence is not just an unintended result of American foreign policy, it is the essence of the American Governments policies, at home and abroad.

And that, in the final analysis, is why the right to bear arms is so important and must be defended. The American government is a criminal enterprise that breaks its own laws and defies the constitution on which it is supposedly based as a matter of course. When the time comes and the majority has finally had enough and stands up, that government will not hesitate to seek to maintain itself by inflicting the same kind of wanton mass murder and brutality on us as it has inflicted on countless other nations – from Vietnam to Grenada to Panama to Nicaragua to Iraq and so on.

If we allow that government to disarm us before the conflict, the result will be a bloodbath and we will fail, and our children will have us to blame for their slavery.

Think about it.

Posted: April 22nd, 2007 under politrix.
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