The Atlantic: The Secret History of Guns

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2. I'm oppressed by gun violence

The people in Charleston were oppressed by racism and gun violence. The 10 people killed last night were oppressed by gun violence.

That argument has a lot in common with the notion that the rights of corporations to free speech should be protected.
The rights of the corporate gun lobby, of killers and their apologists, have come to trump the rights of the rest of us.
Gun proliferation is immoral, racist, and murderous. It is in fact terrorism. I am sick to death of hearing justifications for why my life means less than the so-called right to accumulate, carry, and use an arsenal of weapons fit for a small army. Fuck the gun apology. Fuck the gun lobby. Fuck the corporate gun lobby's subversion of democracy and free speech. Promoting war at home is wrong, NO BETTER than promoting empire abroad. In fact the two go hand in hand.

I am sick of being told my life is worth less than the right to deadly property. I am especially sick of people who claim to be liberals holding up the rights of corporate gun manufacturers over the citizenry. The position is wrong. Justifying policies that cost 32,000 lives every year is unconscionable.