Virginia Tech, gun control and white supremacy

If you liked my post on the Virigina Tech massacre, don’t miss Phoenix Insurgent’s post looking at the relationship between gun control and white supremacy — Disarming Robert Williams. Re-arming Jim Crowe. (Where’s John Brown?).

“With the revelation that the most recent school massacre was likely perpetrated by a so-called “resident alien,” we can expect the racist program of the gun control movement to harmonize increasingly with the arguments of the racist anti-immigrant movement. Although the shooter seems to have been Asian, disarming the immigrant and resident alien population will surely bring resident and citizen Latinos and other people of color under increased police scrutiny, leading to more oppression and less ability to resist vigilante and police attacks. Gun control will put one more tool in the hands of vigilantes and police, who surely will not find it nearly as hard to stay armed.”

Let me also take note of, and recommend overall, Lila Rajiva’s post on Virginia Tech — although I think she makes a mistake in portraying the arguments of self-defense advocates as reducing down to simply firearms as a panacea. Prioritizing on obstacles to self-defense need not imply tunnel vision with regard to deeper and/or subtler social issues.

Also, Justin Raimondo has some interesting things to say about the neo-con response to the massacre. And, of course, some people will continue to ask: “Cui bono?“

Hat tip: Infoshop.org