We’ve all read the extraordinary stories of urban guerillas. Robbing banks and giving the money to the poor, assassinating Nazi war criminals who evaded justice at Nuremburg, and carrying out great feats of vigilante justice for the people.
And yet, their efforts always seem to end the same way, with the public despising them, gruesome police sieges, prison torture, and god knows what else. One day they capture the vogue of newspaper headlines and underground punk ballads, and the next it’s as if they no longer exist.
Don’t get me wrong: I very much advocate for an armed citizenry, all republicans do. Without this, there is no presupposition for democracy. Cowards and fascists might cry about public safety, but for whom? Gun control doesn’t seem to end the dangers in working class and poor neighborhoods, rather it only makes the seats of tyranny safer.
It permits the upper class to gentrify, divest, outsource and destroy communities with zero concern for recourse. No, this argument is a falsehood. Sociology, that snake oil of newspapers and universities, trots out statistics without class characteristics.
Without the context of who dies and why. Rather, it arbitrarily frames cause and effect in any direction which may permit them to deliver credibility to their doctrines of supposed safety.
If you want some sobering statistics, then look up how many people die each year from segregated housing, or homelessness, or pollution. Look at how many people that die from ruinous labour conditions, evictions, mental health issues, and any number of the burdens that come out of poverty.
The violence of wealth, the violence of liberalism, it does not require them to shoot people. Rather, they wall people into open-air class apartheid, and threaten to shoot them through police violence. They make it illegal to eat with an empty wallet, to live indoors, to procure medicine, they put people into social programmes designed to break them psychologically through complex and demeaning legal procedure.
They do not need to resort to violence because they spent the last century assembling a ruthless system of control that permits them to mandate the law on the basis of raw coercion.
As such, I find it more vital than ever to arm the proletariat, to make sure that we have the perfectly reasonable recourse of making our problems theirs.
This is, after all, the keystone of democracy. To take the burdens the upper classes put on your shoulders, and throw it right back at them. A republic therefore commands that every household is furnished with a gun cabinet, statistics be damned.
Progressives will sometimes try to manipulate people by pointing to suicide statistics, ignoring the situation most suicidal people find themselves in. Suicide is brought on by unemployment, substance abuse, unsecure housing and economic hardship. These sadistic people will gladly inflict upon you the circumstances of suicidality, and then, in some dreadful irony, pretend to care about your life when we arrive at the topic of regarding their accountability.
As far as mental health goes, liberal parliamentarianism is a slaughterhouse, and they gladly use the mentally troubled as human shields in their war against popular democracy.
These are the people whose false concerns should drive you into silence, that should compel you into sheepish obedience. I should think not. It is the trickery of police state advocates.
My point is, on one side we have adventurism, and vigilantes. On the other side we have police states. Where is the sensible position? How, exactly, does one kill the emperor?
Truth is that the real answer as to why guns are so vital to democracy is a little bit more complicated. A single person with a gun, void of organisation, regimentation and popular mandate is useless. A useless endangerment to themselves. Republics thrive on militias, and labour unions. Workers must become part of a larger formation, and must be capable of confronting the state in a manner which delivers a reckoning.
Liberalism indoctrinates people into the cult of me, a tragic circumstance for human beings who crave community. Everything, absolutely everything, is presumed to be carried out on an individual basis. Everything is a consumer choice, everything is a singular habit, everything is part of the cult of me.
The notion that a neighborhood or a district can have formations, and vanguards, and unions, that they can be part of something bigger is as alien to the liberal as the very working class they are so eager to admonish.
Even their arguments against the arming of the workers is one of this basis, where they try to pull the wool over your eyes by presenting a rhetorical shadowpuppet, namely, the street criminal.
Is it the street criminal who robs the national coffers of billions each year? Is it the street criminal who makes illegal loans and housing foreclosures? Is it the street criminal who drains pension funds, wages, savings accounts and low indexing funds of billions on a daily basis, as their victims are deprived of vital services, both public and private?
The true criminals, one may find, are friends of the police. They own news networks and editorial staff, they run banks, and invest in markets. They collude as lobbyists and financiers, tearing your vote apart with the forked tongue that whispers into the politician’s ear.
And last I checked, these people are not going to be held accountable by the state. When a conservative finds out their party is corrupt, they deny all allegations. When a progressive finds out their party is corrupt, they change the laws to make it legal. Neither side is going to do anything besides resolving the matter for themselves. The only politician either side would prosecute is one who refuses to take bribes and attend backdoor meetings.
The people require their own power, their own force, and their own structure. The state cannot be arranged as to permit the slaughter of the poor to be as mundane as the very Co2-laden air we breathe, whilst the mere whisper of holding them accountable is met with the sort of panicked and fanatical reaction one might anticipate from a time travelling Oppenheimer arriving at the first phases of the Manhattan project.
No, truth is that the parliamentarian state is decaying, and each day the lower classes swell with the recently unemployed, evicted and dispossessed. As a large scale urban prison of slums, boondocks and ghettos.
People must break out, and reclaim their government again. To stall this process is to endanger the lives of millions, we must all organise, and we must all arm ourselves. We must be part of disciplined formations, and capable of defending our homes as the rich and the powerful grow more and more violent with each passing year.
