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Recently the far right in the US has been pulling some really classy moves. Mainly, I’m referring to showing up at healthcare debates with guns, openly declaring themselves to be a right wing terrorist to thunderous applause, and showing hostility and anger towards anyone left of center.

This has gotten me thinking recently. These people are all very clearly behaving like reactionaries and are rabidly anti-Communist, however, they also seem to hold a near monopoly on the gun culture. In the US, people who own guns and join militias are bigger fans of Red Dawn than of Das Kapital, tend to be overwhelmingly hard right-wing, and are very clearly mobilized against what they wrongly percieve to be Marxism - I can only imagine how they would respond to true Marxists.

I have to confess that I am a relative newcomer to Marxist political action, and I have virtually no fieldwork under my belt, so I was hoping my comrades here with much more experience might be able to answer some of my concerns. Just how prepared for self-defense are we on the American Left these days? Have we been too reticent in letting firearms and the gun culture of the US become the sole providence of reactionaries, Neo-Nazis and Republican sportsmen? One of the most inspiring aspects of the Black Panthers was, in my humble opinion, that they knew by heart their gun rights and gun laws, and boldly practiced them with responsibility, restraint, and respect for the killing power of firearms.

It’s very much my concern that as things get worse in the US, that when this corrupt economic system finally DOES collapse, we’ll find that most of the guns and the people willing to use them are on the opposite side of the political spectrum.