Re: AUT: Negri and Charleton Heston?

[Thiago Oppermann <difference_3ngine@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 29/11/2004 4:08 AM, "mj" <mjlistservs@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>> Utterly. The problem is to think "should" as opposed
>> to "already is"... La
>> comunidad is armed to the teeth. What does Negri
>> want, three guns per adult
>> American, rather than two? Or a better distribution
>> of guns in favour of
>> educated people who will know which way to shoot?
>
> I'm sorry, that's ridiculous, stop watching TV. 70 to
> 75 million Americans own guns out of a population of
> 300 million. That's a quarter.

Right. No problem at all.

There are, as a matter of fact, several hundred million guns in the United
States - more than there are adults.

> And they're
> overwhelmingly White. In fact, the existing "gun
> control" laws in the country can be traced back
> directly to the post-civil-war Slave Codes which
> disarmed the freemen, and are still plainly selective
> in their enactment and enforcement.
>
> http://www.lizmichael.com/racistgc.htm
>
> But I'm assuming you mean the White working class when
> you talk about the American working class? Gun
> ownership cuts across categories of relationship to
> the means of production, but is sharply stratified
> racially and regionally.

As I said, Negri might see the problem as one of redistribution.






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