{"id":22190,"date":"2018-11-04T00:10:19","date_gmt":"2018-11-04T08:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/?p=22190"},"modified":"2018-11-04T01:06:31","modified_gmt":"2018-11-04T09:06:31","slug":"rouge-forum-dispatch-draft-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/rouge-forum-dispatch-draft-30\/","title":{"rendered":"Rouge Forum Dispatch: Vote For Community–Against Capital and Empire."},"content":{"rendered":"

We Say Fight Back!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Rise of the Armed Left<\/span><\/h1>\n

Threats from the right inspire a new left-wing gun culture.<\/p>\n

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By\u00a0Michelle Goldberg<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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…As a squishy liberal, I generally find the idea of adding more guns to our febrile politics frightening and dangerous. But sometimes a small desperate part of me thinks that if our country is going to be awash in firearms, maybe it behooves the left to learn how to use them. If nothing else, an armed left might once again create a bipartisan impetus for gun control.<\/p>\n

The members of the S.R.A. I met were more sober and responsible than I might have inferred from the group\u2019s\u00a0bullet-strewn Twitter feed<\/a>. Far from being cosplay revolutionaries, they\u2019ve adopted bylaws banning members from advocating violence, and they have strict rules about carrying weapons at protests. As their bylaws say, they don\u2019t want to be seen as a \u201cmilitia or anti-fascist action group.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n