Liberals with guns


Defending the right to keep and bear arms - from a leftist perspective.

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(inclusion here does not indicate 100% agreement with the linked material)
  • The World Wide Web Gun Defense Clock - good statistics on the defensive use of firearms
  • talk.politics.guns Official Pro-Gun FAQ - addresses popular myths about guns and gun control
  • While today Republicians are more likely than Democrats to support the RKBA, it wasn't always so. The law that took away the right of the citizens of California to bear arms was introduced in 1967 by Republican assemblyman Donald Mulford - and approved by Governor Ronald Reagan - to oppose the Black Panther Party of Self-Defense, whose "What we Believe" reads: "The Second Amendment of the Constitution of the United States gives us a right to bear arms. We therefore believe that all black people should arm themselves for self defense." I think that's still good advice today, given rising concerns about police brutality.
  • "Guns, bombs, and workers' control", from the U.K.'s Weekly Worker: "Communists do not join the call for gun control. We actively oppose it....Without workers' militias - the people armed - the workers can never become the ruling class."