Ruling For The People

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State,
the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed"

The Center for A New American Socialist Democracy commends the United States Supreme court for affirming the right “of the People” over the individual States' desire to strip inner-city populations of the same set of rights as those in rural areas.

In the history of socialism, many movements have used armed struggle to bring the varied conditions of affected populations to the public discourse. Though many times, as when dealing with arms, many innocents suffer and injury is deadly when movements resort to armed conflict. But a popular media slogan is stated, “when it bleeds it leads”; yet most of the violence involved in our struggles have to do with state oppression rather then violent socialist political action.

Groups in the past have picked up arms against their oppressors only after repeated paramilitary actions by Federal, State and Local law enforcement that have resulted in the deaths of thousands upon thousands of American Citizens of every persuasion. It has become clear in the most recent of times that social democracy movements around the world are progressing beyond a rush to arms in the pursuit of social justice and political reform. The gun should always be in the closet or the locker, as it basically guarantees that our peaceful & legal forms of protest are readily embraced, for the alternatives are the ideas of the past that has caused so many such pain…

An informed electorate, a sign of cardboard & peaceful civil disobedience make the best weapons in these days, and the internet may now make the Pen that much more mightier then the Sword. Modern struggle is defined by shooting out broadcast emails and putting up manifestos on websites. Fundraising, grassroots outreach and even the flash mob phenomenon make the idea & implementation of revolution all the easier. Guns are not now needed for a modern revolution, just an educated population with arms to hold those signs and make those phone calls.

But we are of the people that most gun laws were actually enacted against. With the intention to remove the right to bear arms to African, Latino and Native Americans, gun ownership was to be a right of the few rich and powerful. Political ideology aside, those populations most severely restricted or barred from owning a hand gun are communities of color. This is not a mistake or has it been legislated without forethought. Those localities wishing to remove guns from the hands of citizens have the highest crime rates when looking at crimes committed by law enforcement officers. In addition, when looking at permits issued in those municipalities, the racial and economic disparity is glaring. Keeping weapons out of the hands of the under-represented and the under-served is seemingly key in the push to again gentrify metropolitan areas in the United States by its Mayors and city managers.

We believe that the Framers of the constitution intended “the People” to be able to arm themselves in a way that such does assure protection from abuses of a state who has a disregard for the rights of its citizenry. As much as abortion & the death penalty, gun control we concur is a complex issue for many, but all of these issues are issues of individual rights over the rights of the state. With so many across the country witnessing the criminality of so many political leaders, it would be wholly unwise and against the idea of self-preservation to forgo protection that the Second Amendment afforded to “we the people” in pursuit of a more perfect union.

Committing a crime with any weapon is exactly that, and could now be treated as such. Should a gun kill or a company’s product liability, each should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Socialists are among the most vociferous & activated against inner-city gun violence. Strict gun ownership laws have done nothing to curb said issue and the topic is a false argument in the act of removing “the people” from rights within the Constitution.

It is now with great hope that so called “liberals” will now advance to seeking ways to improve the lives of “inner-city” populations without the issue of Gun Control to divert attention from a lack of social investment of affected municipalities by the very politicians who champion more laws to control & imprison their poorer and minority populations.