A Good Read from Down Under

The Second Amendment of the US Constitution isn’t there for duck hunting or guarding against home invasions, it’s there first and foremost to protect the citizenry from a tyrannical government. .Telling Americans they should relinquish or restrict their access to firearms while they’re being exploited and oppressed by an Orwellian corporatist oligarchy is like telling a battered woman she shouldn’t get a restraining order on her abusive ex. It’s none of your business whether a restraining order is an effective deterrent of further abuse or whether she should have done more sooner; the fact is that she’s the victim here, and she’s doing what she feels she needs to do to protect herself from a brute. How about instead of criticizing the perfectly understandable fear and paranoia of an abused citizenry, you criticize their fucking abusers instead?



medium.com/@caityjohnstone/why-youll-never-hear-this-australian-tell-americans-to-give-up-their-guns-fe3f521a6a8