We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.—That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.—That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. The Declaration of Independence, IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
Let’s hope it doesn’t come to this. The present train of abuses and usurpations is indeed long, and despotism is approaching the threshold of popular tolerance. To be sure, it is preferable that we should work to set right our long established republic rather than overthrow it.
In deeper truth, this frame gets the matter backwards; it’s not those who would defend their country who desire to cast off its government (that would be a contradiction), but those who manufacture the illusion that they are not working to this end by dismantling the republic and installing themselves as rulers, to administer a world of high-tech estates managing the affairs of billions of serfs. The power elite understand who the enemy is: those who would resist such a development.
The corporate media is telling you that gun violence occurs mostly in red states. What they are not telling you is that gun violence in America occurs mostly in blue cities. And not everywhere in blue cities—in inner-city black-majority neighborhoods. These neighborhoods were build by progressive Democrats and the big corporate interests they represent. Progressive rule-makers manage the population in the inner cities of America. In what amounts to a custodial arrangements, the city government maintains an idle population and inferior public infrastructure, including schools. Those who run the custodial state continue the longstanding practice of racially-selective underprotection, maintaining the criminogenic conditions that endanger black likes and failing to devote attention to the quality of public safety required to protect them.
There is more government and media deception beyond the fact of obscuring the fact that most gun violence is perpetrated by black men. The propagandists also omit these facts: the weapon of choice is handguns, including in black neighborhoods, and the most violent cities in America already have the strictest gun laws in the nation. In 2020, the most recent year for which authorities have provided statistics, handguns were involved in 60 percent of gun murders and non-negligent manslaughters for which data is available. Rifles, on the other hand, were involved in only 3 percent of firearm murders.
Why are the government and media lying about this?
First, suggested earlier, they want to effectively disarm the population by targeting those weapons most effective in warfare—the AR15, AK47, etc. They know the civilian population can’t defend itself from state security forces armed with handguns and hunting rifles. Progressives snark at the possibility of armed resistance against the government in light of the latter’s awesome military power. Then why the push to disarm?
Those who have studied war know the threat a well-armed and organized army of irregulars represents to even the most powerful armies in the world. The government and the media know history very well (they have to in order to engineer the most effective propaganda). And they know that the people know that the nation is lurching towards totalitarianism in America, and that, in an instant, the demographic, economic, information, legal-judicial, and political war the government is waging against its people can turn kinetic.
Second, the government and media are lying about gun violence because they need to distract the public from its actual causes, because the actual causes undermine the narrative that white men are the true threat to democracy and public safety in America. False perception advances the gun control narrative. So we must at every turn debunk the narrative.
White people are three-quarters of the US population. They are responsible for a minority of murders in the United States. That’s in gross numbers. In terms of rates, whites are also underrepresented in gun violence. In fact, taking adult males below age 65, white men (around 34 percent of total US population) commit 12.8 times fewer homicides than black men (the latter comprising only around 4 percent of the population).
The government and media know this, so they divert the public attention away from the mass shootings occurring in inner-city black-majority neighborhoods towards the long-standing hegemonic narrative that white men are armed and dangerous—and racist. This narrative is design to to two things: (1) delegitimize the community and culture of white Americans—the majority of the population; (2) sow racial animosity in order to morally divide the proletariat and disorganize working class politics.
The democracy the elite talking about is not the democracy you’re thinking about; it’s the specter of totalitarianism to which the facts attest. See what you see. The administrative and national security states, the censorship-industrial complex, the propagandistic and technocratic apparatuses—are all indicators of the totalitarian future. So is gun grabbing.
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