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A lot of talk in activist groups consists of “When do we act?” and “Who
will lead us?” Discussions of when we’ll know what to do and how we’ll
know who to trust or which groups are the best ones to give us advice
can go on for days, weeks, months or even years. Everyone has a right to
their opinion, but in the meantime nothing much is accomplished and
things can continue to grow worse. Much worse.
Waiting
forever for answers is the wrong option, I believe. We must act, even
if we’re uncertain of what direction we’re going exactly. Making no
decision is actually making a decision, one that’ll probably not yield
the desired result. At the current crossroads we as activists find
ourselves, following the example of leaders from the past may help us
find the direction that will lead us to a more peaceful present and
happier future.
Once
upon a time, a radical activist declared, “Blessed are the peacemakers,
for they will be called children of God” (Matthew 5:9) and meant it. He
kept emphasizing peace as an action that could produce positive results
and strengthen our determination. “Peace I leave with you; my peace I
give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your
hearts be troubled, and do not let them be afraid.” (John 14: 27)
His
idea of peace was both internal and external, as one can’t fully be
realized without the other. This was quite a daring concept in his era,
especially as it was vocalized by a poor man from a working class
migrant family living on the edge of the world’s largest empire. Sound
familiar? That’s were many of us find ourselves today—living on the edge
of empire, struggling to survive.
Empire,
both then and now, doesn’t care very much for peace. Peace doesn’t sell
fighter jets or killer drones. You can’t grow empire if you don’t have
ready access to natural resources, land, and (slave) labor enough to
build the profitable weapons of war, and you can’t gain these things
without endless wars and genocides to appropriate them from others.
We’ve seen this recently with the US perpetrating resource grabs in both
Venezuela and Gaza...
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"When the people shall have no more to eat, they will eat the rich." —Jean Jacques Rousseau, 1793
Eat
The Rich, Feed The Poor (And Other Revolutionary Recipes)
by Redd Phlagg
So
many depressing headlines hit my inbox this past week that they not only made my
head spin, they made my entire worldview spin. It became ever more apparent to
me that we can no longer afford to wait for the bought-off ruling establishment to
take action to save our planet and its peoples. It's time. We the Workers, the
little people, the 99% must get off our backsides and grab the reigns of our
runaway climate catastrophe and social collapse before it's too late.
Americans
need to feed our poor, tax our rich, and make certain that the narcissistic behavior
that got us in these desperate straits in the first place doesn't ever return.
We need to stop allowing ourselves to become distracted by the silly antics of
the duopolists in DC who do only as they're told by their corporate masters.
And we need to start yesterday.
COVID-19
has caused a million and counting deaths in the US. Since these deaths are spread
across the country, you might not have noticed so many missing persons
yourself but future generations most definitely will. American children will ask
what happened to their parents, grandparents, cousins, aunts, uncles, teachers, friends, babysitters, and even siblings as they grow up. What will we tell them?
Out of
the one million plus Americans who have died since 2020 because of the pandemic,
what percentage of them could have been saved? If the public's health and safety were
the main priority of the ruling establishment rather than making profits for
shareholders in the health insurance industry, Big Pharma, and the like how many could have lived? I feel
that almost every American who caught COVID could have been saved if they could
have received immediate treatment, free of charge, and weren't forced into situations that put their health at risk. There was no scientific
reason to stop the lockdowns and force workers back out into low-paying service
industry jobs (such as restaurant workers and hotel maids) so soon. In doing
so, the politician-puppets of the oligarchy also forced these struggling
workers' children back into daycares and public schools where the virus is extremely
transmissible and proven deadly for teachers and students alike.
Universal
Basic Income (UBI) could have been given to all American families to stay home
and stay safe with their children until the virus died out. In countries that
implemented such policies, the spread of COVID and its variants was much less,
and their death tolls practically non-existent. Putting people over profits means that people win at least another day to live.
But,
once again, the establishment duopoly sat on their backsides in Washington DC
and moaned about how keeping people safe at home was hurting "the
economy." They said this with a straight face while spending billions on
the most bloated military budget ever passed in the history of humankind. They
continued saying this while starting a proxy war to flush even more money down
the drain so they could get rid of a natural gas competitor in Europe (i.e.,
Russia). No matter what label they give themselves--Republican,
Democrat, "The Squad", Bernie Sanders even--these politician-puppets demonstrate by their actions that the profits of the military-industrial complex are infinitely more important than the lives of the vast majority of Americans.
Insult
upon insult is dumped upon the poor and working classes' shoulders. We're forced
to suffer the consequences of the duopolists' bad decisions to take on a fellow
nuclear power with oil reserves and resources the Western powers envy. We're
paying for it every day at the gasoline pump, grocery store, and pharmacy. But to "red
and blue" alike it's okay if the working classes grow poorer trying to
survive because… well, "democracy" is at stake. Democracy in an already corrupt
corner of the world ruled by fascists who took over in a coup in 2014 with the
help of our CIA? What larks!
Why do
We The People, the working classes continue putting up with this disgusting behavior?
Why are these millionaire-idiots still in office wearing smug smiles on their
faces? Could it be they've militarized our local police departments to such an
extent that they know they can keep us poor folks in our place if we rise up?
I realize
now that not every American realizes who is putting them through each and every
fresh hell because our freedom of the press has been seriously curtailed. Revealing the dirty secrets of American war crimes put one Australian journalist, Julian Assange, into jail with a threatened 170 year sentence for treason. Yes, it's treasonous to publish news stories that reveal American politicians and officials for the war criminals they are. And if the war criminals in DC can slap an insane
charge of treason on a journalist doing his job, you can imagine the charges
they've cooked up to slap on us if we dare take our pitchforks to the streets
in protest.
When
the French rose up at the end of the 18th century to protest numerous injustices
inflicted upon them, they didn't let the fear of the militarized police stop
them from punishing the aristocracy who had created the hell they were living
in. Marie Antoinette said, "Let them eat cake!" while the French
people couldn't even afford to buy a loaf of bread. (Sound familiar?) The commoners responded with the right
idea--they built the guillotine and deployed it. Yes, it's bloody and violent,
but the detached head of a obscenely wealthy sociopath made their point quite well,
don't you think?
Should
struggling Americans do likewise? The guillotine dispatched quite a few members
of the French establishment along with Marie Antoinette, but it saved many more
who saw it as a symbol of how the workers wouldn't take any more shit from those
who thought themselves "superior" to the working classes. These smart
aristocrats buckled down and cooperated with the common folks, and France was
changed. So the guillotine doesn't have to be used indiscriminately and widely
to make its point. Just the thought that the abused people have no problems
getting rid of their abusers can bring about change.
It's
time for Americans to let the money-grubbing, duopolistic puppet-politicians know
that our patience is wearing thin. It's time to stop wasting time arguing over
"the lesser evil" and being distracted by their idle rich antics
that have nothing to do with us and our lives. Whatever symbol We The People
choose--the guillotine, the pitchfork, tar and feathers (our founders' favorite
means of singling out sociopaths)--we need to post it everywhere. We need to
post it along with the message that we are not inferior to those
who hoard wealth and play God with our health and safety--and the health and
safety of the planet and everyone else on it.
We The
People, the workers, the commoners, the 99% are, in fact, their bosses. They
need to do what we say or else. And we
let them know in no uncertain terms they're going to be a head shorter if
they don't.
Trump didn't save shit. Biden isn't going to save shit. Wake up already.
— Brutal Regime Apocalyptic Dreams (@brutal_regime) June 18, 2022
Capitalism's instability hits us. Over centuries, crashes and inflations follow each other. No reforms, monetary or fiscal policies ever ended them. System change: now we need it more than ever.
Some of the most dangerous and corrupt organizations in the world, like the DOD, the CDC, the IMF, the World Bank, the CIA and the FBI are hailed as pillars of safety and justice.
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
— ๐ น๐ พ️๐ ด๐ีกrecฮบ ☭ (@joeywreck) June 16, 2022
Poverty wages are violence.
— Communist Special Agent Dana Scully (@CommunistScully) June 19, 2022
***
In a near-future dystopian world, hope blossoms where mutual aid and democracy begins...
Zonta’s
world is turned upside down when Jake arrives at the commune to
investigate the disappearance of agents of the Authority. Can she
persuade him to switch sides before the Protectors (antifascist
fighters) take action?
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Russian propaganda poses a much smaller threat to the western world than
the various government agendas that are being rolled out under the
justification of fighting Russian propaganda. --Caitlin Johnstone, The US Empire Will Be Defeated By the US Empire
Atrocity Propaganda and Narrative Control
by C.A. Matthews
There's nothing nasty that's new under the sun. Really, there isn't.
Just when you thought you heard it all, another bit of "disinformation" from the US/NATO proxy war in Ukraine pops up and within a month it's revealed as the grotesque lie that it is. (More on DHS's Disinformation Governance Board here.)
Human rights ombudsman Lyudmyla Denisova was Ukraine's top human rights official until it was revealed that she has been making up obscene stories of Russian soldiers raping defenseless women and children en masse. The Ukrainian parliament found her lurid storytelling to the Western mainstream media to be such an embarrassment and a liability to their cause that they kicked her out of office.
As has been the pattern in prior wars, whether in Syria or Libya,
the media claims got more and more sensational and over-the-top as the
conflict intensified, and as Western powers became more deeply involved,
yet with no concrete or definitive proof.
But one consistent detail in the majority of the stories is that the aforementioned Ukraine human rights ombudsman, Lyudmyla Denisova, is often the central figure feeding Western correspondents the shocking rape stories. (...)
"Ukrainian lawmakers dismissed the country’s ombudsman for human
rights, Lyudmyla Denisova, in a no-confidence vote on Tuesday,
concluding that she had failed to fulfill obligations including the
facilitation of humanitarian corridors and countering the deportation of
Ukrainians from occupied territory," The Wall Street Journal reported late in the day.
"Lawmaker Pavlo Frolov said Ms. Denisova was also accused of making insensitive and unverifiable statements about alleged Russian sex crimes and spending too much time in Western Europe during the invasion," the report added.
"The
unclear focus of the Ombudsman's media work on the numerous details of
‘sexual crimes committed in an unnatural way’ and ‘rape of children’ in the occupied territories that could not be confirmed by evidence, only harmed Ukraine."
It's pretty amazing they shut Lyin' Lyudmyla down since she wasn't afraid of dumping "atrocity propaganda." Atrocity propaganda is a very effective weapon in the arsenal of professional propagandists. It has been used to push for increasing amounts of money and weapons to be given to Ukraine with no debate and little expectation of compensation.
Nothing makes Westerners more horrified and ready to open their wallets than a supposed "reliable source" (often an "anonymous" or insider source like Ms. Denisova or the CIA) spinning a narrative about newborn babies being kicked out of their incubators (Iraq War I) or soldiers being given massive doses of Viagra in order to rape the helpless populace to death (Libya) or huge stockpiles of "Weapons of Mass Destruction" (Iraq War II).
Going back even further to World War I, it was posited that the German Kaiser's troops actually ate babies for dinner as they advanced into Belgium. Rape, child endangerment, and cannibalism definitely make for great attention-grabbing, pro-war headlines.
Why do our corporate-owned politician-puppets and their media lackeys put out such outrageous falsehoods? Why do they constantly whip up hatred of others such as the Russians, a people that most Americans don't see as being very different from ourselves? I think it's simply because the vast majority of Americans don't mind being lied to. Some might even enjoy having a scapegoat to blame for all the world's ills.
Comfortable Americans will allow their emotions and intellect to be manipulated by the current government because somewhere, somehow they feel it will benefit them not to go against the status quo. Or perhaps it's simply because many Americans can't be bothered to double-check dubious tales the mainstream media feeds them since they have more important things to do--like watching professional sports or the latest Marvel movie release.
And so the US government and its cronies will keep lying to the public in order to keep pumping billions of dollars of weaponry into a faltering proxy war. The capitalists rest assured that their lies will never be called out because We the Workers are all too stressed and busy trying to survive to make a fuss. We're too confused to see that we're being played in order to make billionaires even richer.
Other examples of recent atrocity propaganda include newspaper headlines declaring, "Too high wages are causing inflation" which implies that wage cuts and a possible dropping of the federal minimum wage are in the works. Atrocity propaganda can include news stories about how it's good to lock up homeless persons for up to six years for camping because they cannot afford skyrocketing rents, thus creating more "slave labor" for the for-profit prison system.
Lyudmyla Denisova may have gone the more salacious route with made-up tales of rape and child abuse, but mainstream media pundits casting doubt about who is at fault for our current hard times is every bit as atrocious. Blaming real-life homeless and dispossessed Americans for their current situation is as cruel and evil as labeling them "cannibals." Hatred is stirred up against the most vulnerable. They are turned into scapegoats, blamed and punished, rather than the actual criminals who put all of us into this untenable proxy war/economic meltdown situation. The wealthy one-percent, who profit immensely from the military-industrial complex, are never held responsible for their actions.
The current government narrative spin says it's working class Americans' fault that gasoline is averaging over $5+ a gallon. We're told we're experiencing food shortages because we won't work during a pandemic. Why are they dumping this atrocity propaganda onto our breaking backs? It's simple--the oligarchs want to keep us lowly workers subdued and confused. If we fall for their lies we'll accept ever-worsening conditions. If today things seem bleak and overwhelming, then we will never have the strength to take on these corrupt bastards and change things to make a better tomorrow.
Only by massive amounts of propaganda would people consent to
unprecedented acts of economic warfare which directly hurt them and
benefit them in no way, shape or form. --Caitlin Johnstone
The abusive relationship we have with those in power must end. Reject the oligarchs' atrocity propaganda and the status quo's narrative control. Turn off the mainstream media outlets and turn on to the podcasters and independent journalists you can find via Rad Indie Media and the links below to gain a wider perspective.
Once you know what's really happening in the world, then you can fight more effectively to make it a better place. We owe it to ourselves to take control of the narrative and tell these professional liars where to shove their atrocious propaganda.
No surprise there. Americans literally have no idea what fascism is, what communism is, what capitalism is, what class consciousness is, what colonialism is, what empire is, what propaganda is, what police are all about. Basically, Americans are the most befuddled confused people
— ๐ธ๐ด⭑ ☭ ⭑ Justice for the Damned ⭑ ☭ ⭑๐ธ๐ด (@tekstone) June 3, 2022
— Back on Double Secret Probation (@thecraigrpowers) June 1, 2022
When we drop bombs, use guns, throw grenades, hurt, destroy, seize, steal, loot, rape, harm and kill in other countries and normalize that as a form of collateral.. it becomes engrained in the Western subconscious as being a standard way of operating not just over there but here.
The US empire's ruling elite have lost control of the narrative and therefore need to push the idea that many independent journalists are "misinformation" or "fake news." They also try to censor anything outside allowable corporate talking points.
In a near-future dystopian world, hope blossoms where mutual aid and democracy begins...
Zonta’s
world is turned upside down when Jake arrives at the commune to
investigate the disappearance of agents of the Authority. Can she
persuade him to switch sides before the Protectors (antifascist
fighters) take action?
Please buy direct from the small publisher and not via Amazon. Why? Amazon takes a huge percentage of the book's price and leaves very little for the publisher and author to share. Thanks.
Bourgeoisie: (inMarxistthought)therulingclass of thetwobasicclasses of capitalistsociety,consisting of capitalists,manufacturers,bankers,andotheremployers.Thebourgeoisieownsthemostimportant of themeans of production,throughwhich it exploitstheworkingclass --The Free Dictionary
It's a
funny word, but it's been receiving a lot more airtime lately. Is it because
Americans are becoming more sensitive to income inequality, or is it
because they themselves are suffering deprivations due to the pandemic? Either
way, more people are openly discussing what they find unfair or unjust in our
society and aren't afraid to use either bourgeoisie or the "C word."
No,
not that "C word"--although often a discussion of communism comes
after the mention of this particular C word. (And not that C word, either, for those
who have their minds in the gutter.) The word I'm referring to is simply
"class." And before you go off on a rant about how America is a
"class-less society," let me ask you one question:
Where
did you go to high school?
I
learned the awesome power of this particular question when I lived in St. Louis,
Missouri. Here's the scenario: You're introduced to someone in a conversation
and then about nine times out of ten in the St. Louis area you are then asked,
"So, where did you attend high school?" I found it an odd question as
an adult long since graduated from high school, but I'm friendly so I shared the
name of the high school I attended in Ohio. This threw the conversation for a
loop usually, and I often got cross looks or simply ignored for the rest of the
evening. But all too soon I learned why they asked me, a total
stranger, this question, and why the answer was vitally important for the questioner to ask.
Americans
tend to dress and speak alike no matter where or how they grew up. I'm not
talking about regional dialects or accents. I'm talking about how difficult it is to
tell what side of town a fellow American comes from
if they dress similarly and use similar terminology to yours. So, we have to
figure out another way to discover what "C word" another American
belongs to without seeming too obvious. In St. Louis, it's as easy as asking
which high school you went to since this gives the questioner the neighborhood
you grew up in (true of both public and parochial schools there) and the
approximate value of the home you grew up in, and, therefore, how much money
your parents made to support your family.
Of
course, if you admitted to attending a working class area high school, you could be shunned by those who attended schools in wealthier neighborhoods. That
is the true power of the question. It helps separate Americans by class in a
relatively quick and painless way. You didn't attend the "right" high
school? Then the questioner knows that you're probably not going to fit in well
with their bridge club or even know what golf is, let alone how to play it. For
recent immigrants and people of color this question is a double insult, as the
wealthier high schools are almost certainly populated with a majority of white,
native-born students.
Please don't get hot under the collar when I tell you that America displays just
as many classes as a Downtown Abbey episode. We all know it's true. Americans
don't like to think of themselves as snobs, but we're as human as the
rest of the world, and we like to put our inferiors in their place. We've
just agreed among ourselves to pretend that we're not capable of such
vulgarities as class consciousness.
American
might be unique in the fact that there is such a thing as poor snobs as
well as rich snobs here. I know because I am one. My favorite tale of how I first
realized how much of a poor snob I am comes from my high school days. (Funny
how secondary education keeps popping up, isn't it? Possibly this is where most
of us first learn how we're "different" from the others who go on from
there to attend Ivy League schools and drive luxury cars.)
There
was only one high school in our city, one large public high school.
This lead to some interesting interactions among students. I remember talking
to a classmate at the end of an English class about where we were both planning
on working in the summer. Most kids from our side of town worked part-time in
the school year and full-time in the summer months. It's how we were able to
afford new shoes, winter coats, and save up for college or trade school.
Anyway, a third classmate entered our conversation and said something along the
lines of, "Oh, I don't know what I'm doing this summer, too. Should I go
to horse riding school or tennis camp?" The first classmate and I
exchanged knowing glances of the variety of, "Yeah, wouldn't it be nice if
the summer months were actually a time to have fun and go on vacations,
right?" We then returned to
discussing the benefits of working at the local ice cream shack versus looking
for more underpaid big chain fast food work located closer to the highway.
It was
then that I realized how much I hated rich people--not necessarily my
well-to-do classmate since she was a nice enough person, but how this idea of
class kept us separated and how it kept working people from ever enjoying a life that our rich classmate
took for granted that everyone else in our high school enjoyed.
Had
she ever been to our side of town? Possibly not. Why would she leave her side? She had
everything she needed on her wealthier side of town and could go out of town to
the big city whenever she or her parents wanted to go. Working class kids just had
to make do with what we had and stay put. That was our lot in life. End of
story.
I take
some hope in the fact that more and more Americans seem free to talk about class and
income inequality and the lack of universal health care in 2021, but we
still have a ways to go. We still need to discuss what concrete steps we're
willing to take to destroy this system that condemns those without what our
society calls "wealth" to a life of poverty, hunger, possible
homelessness, and an early preventable death. If the founders were willing to
risk it all for the "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" why
aren't we?
"No
war but class war" says the bumper sticker slogan. I think that's what it's
going to take--an
all out assault against the institutions that propagate the evil
capitalistic class system in this country and the world. Voting out the corrupt billionaire supporters has proved impossible. The Citizens United ruling has taken away our voices since money is speech according to it. We will never be able to outspend the billionaires and their lackeys. We'll have to outsmart and out-fight them in the streets.
In other words, it's time for the pitchforks, folks.
We can't keep pulling our punches. Speak out, speak loudly, and never give in to those who say it's not a fight worth winning. It is. Our planet is dying because of capitalism. We don't need to maintain the classes to survive. The system is killing us all. We need each other without these artificial divides.
All is not lost for the rich according to this short video--they can be taught to empathize! https://youtu.be/Pg5QFOuMoN8
***
Over 300,000 immigrants were deported in Biden’s first 100 days — a
rate of deportations higher than any period under the openly
anti-immigrant Donald Trump or under the “Deporter-in-Chief,” Barack
Obama.
The deportation machine of Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) continues unabated. ICE
and CBP defied Biden’s 100-day moratorium on deportations.
Predictably, these agencies targeted Black and Latino immigrants for deportation.
Biden partially rescinded Trump’s “Return to Mexico" policy for
asylum seekers, but only for Latin Americans. Reflecting the
longstanding anti-Black racism of US immigration policies, Haitians
and Africans were excluded.
Black people have been flown by ICE without due process of their
asylum requests to countries like Haiti, Cameroon, and the Democratic
Republic of the Congo where the political violence means they may face
death.
More Haitians were deported to Haiti in Biden’s first 100 days than in the last year of the Trump administration.
Biden has the legal authority to bring ICE and CBP into compliance
with the law and his administration’s policies. These rogue agencies’
unions and members campaigned in uniform for Trump in open defiance the
Hatch Act. ICE and CBP must be dismantled and replaced with a new agency
that will uphold the law.
But Biden shows no appetite for that fight.
Instead, Biden submitted a moderate immigration bill to Congress
on his first day in office, the U.S. Citizenship Act, which would leave
ICE and CBP in place. It would provide immigrants in the U.S. before
2021 with a path to legal status and, after eight years, to
citizenship. But it reinforces the racial biases in the criminal justice
and national security systems toward Black, Latino, Muslim, Arab,
Middle Eastern,
and South Asian people, who remain targeted for criminal and national
security surveillance, discrimination, and arrest that would render
them ineligible for legal status and citizenship.
In any case, if the Democrats in the U.S. Senate don’t eliminate
the filibuster, no immigration reform will happen. 800,000 Dreamers and
more than 20 million undocumented immigrants will continue to live
their lives in constant fear of deportation.
Meanwhile, Biden has continued Trump's "Title 42" public health
authority to immediately expel people seeking asylum without due
process.
The only exception is allowing the entry of unaccompanied minors,
tens of thousands of whom are now stuck in some 200 facilities across
two dozen states. Most of these detentions centers are unlicensed and
riddled with neglect, abuse, covid, lice, and failure to help connect
children with their families or vetted care providers.
While Biden has said he will not build more border wall, his
administration is in the courts pursuing eminent domain proceedings that
were initiated by the Trump administration against landowners at
the border where more wall could be built.
Nor has Biden stopped the policy of co-opting local police into
federal immigration enforcement, which has made racial profiling worse
and undermined the trust and cooperation of immigrant communities
with local police in solving crimes.
The rule-or-ruin intransigence of the Republicans make them
irrelevant to immigration reform—or any other reform. The Democrats in
control of both houses of Congress and presidency are negotiating
with themselves. They may try to blame the Republicans, but it is the
Democrats who could but will not eliminate the filibuster by a simple
majority vote in the Senate.
That is why we need the Green Party now more than ever.
We are working to help Greens build that alternative and advance
the agenda we advocated during the presidential campaign, from
immigration reform and student debt relief to Medicare for All and
the Ecosocialist Green New Deal.
A federal judge just compared a military-style assault weapon to a Swiss Army knife – and then struck down California’s decades-long assault weapons ban.
This
shouldn’t even have to be said, but an AR-15 is not the same as a Swiss
Army Knife. These deadly weapons of war do not belong in the hands of
civilians.
In Parkland, an assault weapon was used to shoot and kill 17 people, not a knife.
In Las Vegas, an assault weapon was used to shoot and kill 61 people, not a knife.
In Newtown, an assault weapon was used to shoot and kill 28 people – including children, not a knife.
We are
talking about weapons of war that are designed to kill as many people as
possible, as quickly as possible. Banning assault weapons keeps
Americans safe and saves lives – and this gun lobby-backed ruling means
we have to work harder than ever to do it. Brady is fighting tooth and
nail to support efforts to overturn this ruling and reinstate the
federal ban on assault weapons and we need you with us:
An
military-style assault weapon is far deadlier than a Swiss Army knife.
Full stop. Thank you for taking action to ban these weapons of war.
Kris Brown
Brady President
