I got off-topic in another thread. Reposting it here:
(Outside the quote box due to slight re-editing.)
The gun rights movement is just another aspect of the anti-modernity movement that Wm. F. Buckley and his kind knit together, right alongside banning birth control, opposing socialized medicine, putting “inferior Negroes” to death on spurious grounds, gutting environmental law, and opposing social democracy generally. The gun nuts are the same people as the anti-contraception maniacs, the white supremacists, the “free-marketers,” and the anti-environmentalist backlash.
The previous generation assumed that progress would proceed peaceably. But the best long-term way to defeat the rabid right in the USA’s federal democratic system is to defeat them militarily. This is what the abolitionists had to do. It is what we or our children will have to do. And time is short. The madmen still have their hands on the tiller and will not permit us to stop the destruction of our agricultural base–of our economy which they claim to defend!–by climate change.
They have already set their terms, long ago. Cold dead hands. I do not ask those terms to change. I ask only an acceptance of those terms from those of us who made the mistake of thinking this reform–any reform–could stand without being enforced by bloodiness worthy of U.S. Grant and Wm. Tecumseh Sherman.
Also in that thread there was this comment:
How about people like me?
I don’t need to scream at you. I just need the proper authorities to know where you all are.
Stand up, make your voices heard, by all means. And soon enough your names will go on a list, and one fine day the BATFE, or whatever name they’ll be using, will knock on your door to confiscate your guns.
By all means, resist, if you want to die for that.
It was before this latest mass shooting I was already thinking the cops were right to take down Randy Weaver’s family.
I’m not pro-gun-control because of school shootings. I’m pro-gun-control because of dumb guys who pick fights with teenagers and kill them. I’m pro-gun-control because of what we get without it: the damn arms race between civilians and cops, blacks and whites, one gang and another.
I was willing to let what rules we had work. Then this year there were too many high-profile cases for me to accept it anymore.
Time to shut it all down. Close the firearms factories; confiscate any civilian gun in any shooting anywhere and destroy it; shut it all down.