The Unspoken Issues with Gun Control

American mass murders and suicides do not exist in a vacuum and cannot be meaningfully addressed via targeting their means

In contribution to leftist and liberal debates over working class revolts, I must say once again that I do not think American large scale conflict will come down to small arms exchanges. The concept of natural rights to arms, which is the typical conservative argument, sets forward that is is the duty of the citizens to bear arms for the purposes of revolting against an unjust government. This is, of course, an incomplete concept of what modern armed insurrection looks like. However, we must also realistically have at least a basic sense of the politics of police, the FBI and the CIA; if an insurrection as right-wing, they will not help you.

I feel the need to bring at least some of my personal perspective into this because I am someone who struggles and has struggled with suicide, and who has also lost someone to suicide by firearm. This is, of course, a sensitive topic.

It is necessary to examine the arguments around gun control that we don’t see represented in mainstream media. Some pro-gun advocates will say that people will always kill each other with or without them. While this doesn’t address the core issue, there is…