Gained a lot of followers in the past week, so to be clear: Arm the left, arm Black communities, arm trans+ communities. I own a gun - you don't have to, but you shouldn't dismiss the leftists that do as 'reactionary'. Unspeakable violence is done onto our communities daily and the people who want you dead all have guns.
Read "We Will Shoot Back" by Akinyele Omowale Umoja
Read "This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed" by Charles E. Cobb Jr.
Read "My People Shall Live" by Leila Khaled
Read "Negroes and the Gun" by Nicholas Johnson
Read "We Refuse" by Kellie Carter Jackson
Read "Good Guys with Guns" by James Pogue
Do literally ANY research on Black community organization in the 60s and the Black Panthers. (Do this regardless of how you feel about guns, if you live in the United States, you have a responsibility to educate yourself on the civil rights movement).
Research the Socialist Rifle Association
Research the Pink Pistols
Research the John Brown Gun Club and Redneck Revolt
Research the Huey P. Newton Gun Club
"...the point of the Second Amendment isn’t that an armed people can necessarily push over the government. It’s just that an armed people can only be pushed so far." (X)
And once more, regardless of how you feel about guns after reading through these recommendations, I highly encourage you to look into local self-defense and deescalation training as well as local community mutual aid groups or even just online peer support groups if you can't find anything local and don't have the ability to build something local. Things in the US will not be getting better for the working class, for Black and brown communities, or for queer people anytime soon under this government.
