Our Brand Is Brown Bikini Trans-Women With Machine Guns
By: Vh Turner
Tags: Culture, Guns, Social Change, Change, Gun Rights

Photo by simon frederick on Unsplash

The current block to gun freedom is that we live in a culture of gun ownership misconceptions that are fueled by prejudice, violence, ignorance, and ableism.

Prejudice

First, you need to ask yourself, “When I demand gun freedom, do I mean ready gun access to me and just people I identify with or do I mean gun access to all?”

If we want it for all, then we first need to adjust, muzzle, shift, discipline, re-educate, or separate ourselves from folks who see gun ownership as an elite privilege and not a right.

When we clear those folks out, we invite the groups who need the most tools of self and community (like women, LGBTQIA+, racial minorities, poor folks, etc.) defense to groups long associated with gun rights and safety or we create, fund, support, find space for new groups that connect diversity and gun rights.

We also create a penal system that treats gun usage or ownership of all groups with the same consequences. We do this by providing support to create legislation that protects gun self and community defense for all, effective legal representation, court support, bail funds, defendants’ dependents support, economic stability, and peer support to all of our fellow gun community members.

Violence

People think gun violence is the problem. This is a cover up. Violence is the problem, gun or otherwise.

Communities burn when communities are faced with constant unmet needs and violated rights. Therefore, community violence goes down when community needs are met or exceeded.

Plugging money into official charities and nonprofits to serve this purpose will not work. They are so leashed to the neoliberalism threatening our right to bear arms that they would never help promote our agendas.

So, if we want our guns we need to publicly and financially align ourselves with grass root groups with the least amount of ties to the government and politically correct, progressive who also are really connected to their communities so they can accurately access their communities unmet or hidden needs and untapped strength.

Because we would be funneling our support with effective workers already engrained in the community, we would become more influential than the parachute activists and white saviors and SJWs who have no connection to the communities they are trying to “uplift.”

Ignorance

As children learn the skill sets to prepare them for life like reading, computer usage, balancing a checkbook, they should also learn proper gun usage and safety.

When the mystery is replaced with responsibility and knowledge, the negative, false associations with guns decrease.

So, we financially support economically depressed and neglected school systems such as inner city and rural ones in exchange for them allowing us to include a safe and proper gun curriculum.

We also financially support after school and childcare programs that allow us to include gun clubs in their programing and/or we start our own stand alone, youth gun clubs that also meet youth needs like food security, personal empowerment and self-esteem through access to successful role models and mentors, vocational training, and civic and spiritual connections.

Ableism

The strongest adversary to gun freedom is that it is associated with mass violence perpetrated by the mentally ill.

People who live with mental complexities are more likely to be the victims of violence and not its perpetrators.

The connection to mental illness and violence stems more from the ableism promoted in mass media more than it is connected to real life.

However, we must address this untruth.

As gun advocates we must also be associated with effective mental health advocacy and addiction treatment. This means we as gun groups publicly participate in mental health fundraising, suicide prevention, support military vet PTSD and addiction care projects, research, anti-stigma work, acknowledge holidays and awareness months, ready access to healthcare, peer support projects, advocacy, education, etc.

Conclusion

And, most importantly we promote that all of our dutiful commitment to cultural uplift, care, and concern stem from the same belief structures that guide us to fight for all of our rights.

Fighting for our gun freedom is just a part of our overall fight for respect, dignity, and justice for all.

Yours In Power,

Lany Chi, Consent Engineer

#invisibleink

BR&U

Excerpt from “Our Brand Is” by Lany Chi.

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