Is Revolution A Warm Gun ???

Pick an issue and the left is organizing around it - climate justice, labor, rape culture, immigrant rights. But why not gun control? Because, most leftists, myself included, agree with the principle Tony advocated, which is political violence - meaning collective self-defense - is a necessary though not sufficient means of securing freedom from a violent state.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/15663-revolution-is-a-warm-gun-rethinking-the-lefts-positions-on-violence-and-gun-control

I could not disagree more. Here is an excerpt from my novella No More Patriots which explains my position on the subject:

I watched for a while, and then slowly walked back toward my car. As I did, it occurred to me there were factors in play here other than just guns and militia per se. For some reason the whole event reminded me of the following observation made by Audre Lorde many years ago:

"The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change."

The legend of the Minutemen implied that guns were tools of liberation, and as a nation we had previously promoted the private ownership of firearms partly because, in the words of the Second Amendment, they were “necessary to the security of a free State”.

But in reality guns are tools of subjugation, oppression, regime change, and counterinsurgency. They can never “dismantle the master’s house” because as one of the master’s chief tools, they are essential to the very building and maintenance of that house.

The proof of this is writ large in America’s history. How did our ancestors clear North America of its original inhabitants? By giving them guns, liquor, and blankets contaminated with smallpox or the measles. And how do we continue to subjugate the peoples around the world whose natural resources and/or land we covet? By giving them guns, drugs, and HIV/AIDS. Would we have given them guns if firearms were tools of liberation? Of course not.

Every instance in which we gave guns to so-called “freedom fighters” was motivated by a desire for regime change and subjugation. And the result nearly every time was a new regime which oppressed its own people so that our extractive businesses could siphon off the wealth of that nation while its American-armed new rulers kept the local population under control. It was a well-honed strategy which worked everywhere, including right here in the good ol’ U S of A.

America was not going to disarm. If we did, where would we find the next great American sniper? How would we keep the inner cities under control? How could we protect the wealth of our billionaires from “illegal” encroachment by hordes of useless eaters?

The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.

http://www.amazon.com/No-More-Patriots-Howard-Uhal-ebook/dp/B00X2SU5Q6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1432485192&sr=8-1&keywords=no+more+patriots