Gun Violence, Resistance, and the Left
Any discussion of gun control must go hand in hand with an argument for de-militarization and an end to the carceral state, or it will only further disempower those most vulnerable to state violence.
The Future is Another Country
Any discussion of gun control must go hand in hand with an argument for de-militarization and an end to the carceral state, or it will only further disempower those most vulnerable to state violence.
Charles’ art and activism have been a fixture in the city for the last decade, so when I learned Charles would be running for mayor, I knew I wanted to interview him.
The shift away from guns as consumer products for hunting and sport towards guns as consumer products for self-protection ignores the argument initially used to validate private gun ownership: defense of private property, as opposed to self-defense of the people occupying personally-owned land.
The messy realities of the past rarely make for the pithiest of signs. And the reality of private gun ownership in the United States is not that it enjoys the support of an eighteenth-century amendment, but that it enjoys the support of twenty-first-century legislative and judicial interpretations of that amendment.
The Activist History Review invites proposals for our April issue, “Gun Violence in the United States.”