The U.S. has more guns per capita than any nation in the world. We’re heavily armed. Spend a day in any American urban area and you’ll encounter as much gun violence as in any collapsing third-world failed-state. Even high school students go on Columbine-style shooting sprees with such regularity that we no longer feel surprised by the news footage. In fact, we’re more surprised when a day passes without a school shooting.

      Conservatives and liberals approach the question of gun violence differently. Liberals largely support some kind of government intervention to limit the proliferation of guns. Conservatives, on the other hand, claim that gun ownership is not the problem and gun control is not the solution; we simply need to do a better job instilling the proper values.

      Personally, I don’t know that gun violence is a problem. I think we’ve just been shooting the wrong people. When was the last time the Crips planned a drive-by on the homes of Bank of America execs? Or when was the last time the Bloods pistol-whipped school-board members for ripping-off generations of students and robbing them of an effective education?

      It’s the corporate bosses and swindling bankers and their purchased politicians leaving us sleeping in our cars and dumpster-diving for scraps and upping iron on each other in desperation. We need to stop shooting other poor people and start shooting the ones who have it coming. I’m talking about some real, low-down sociopaths, some global-scale criminals. And we don’t have to shoot them all. Just like with judges or law-makers or cops, if you just shoot a handful of them, the rest of them will likely start acting right. At least for a while.

      My thinking is, we need to arm the homeless. I don’t come to that conclusion because I want the down-and-out to do the dirty work so the rest of us can keep our hands clean. I think we need to arm the homeless because they’ve generally got clearer vision than the rest of us. By and large, the homeless are composed of people who were the flotsam and jetsam of our global disorder, tossed over the side when the seas got rough. But they’ve survived. They’ve thrived. They’ve endured rain and cold and deprivations, and it has turned them to steel. I don’t want to paint the entire homeless community with too broad of a brush, but I suspect a large majority of the homeless, if given the chance to rejoin the system that betrayed them and resume their place in the matrix, would probably tell global capital to go fuck itself.

     There are tribes of kids who live in the New York subway system. They are as loyal to each other as humans get. If you send in a platoon of the best-trained special forces group to eradicate those kids, I’d put my money on the kids. And that’s before you arm them.

      There are groups of homeless combat veterans with training and skills that got them through innumerable tours in combat theaters across the globe and got them home alive, only to be discarded on the pavement. We’re talking about some of the best and brightest of a generation, left adrift in a cold world that has rendered them invisible and destitute.

      It’s possible to change the world with a few gun racks and some boxes of ammunition. You cfan start off big by robbing a military armor; it wouldn’t be too hard because the government is lazy and over-confident and security measures are likely far more lax than you would expect. Get inside, observe the process, maybe take a supply clerk hostage and there you have it—millions of dollars in weapons and ammunition. This is what I call “The John Brown Method.”

      Or, you can start off small, taking the weapons from a couple of cops. They may give them up without much of a fight, or you may have to pry their weapons from their cold, dead fingers. Either way is cool. Then, use those guns to rob a few more cops, and then a few more.

      The advantage to using military and police weaponry is, you can always find the right ammunition just by shooting the bastards that the fascists send after you and taking from them what they’ve been firing at you.

      Once you’ve got the weapons, it’s only a matter of finding the homeless people and making the delivery. You could provide them the names and addresses of bankers, politicians, corporate financial officers, profiteers, and other enemies by taping photo-copied address lists to the butt-stocks. Once you get rolling you can expand into explosives and set up shop. On one side of the street, you’ll have FOOD, NOT BOMBS, and on the other side you’ll have BOMBS, JUST BOMBS. It’s the ultimate empowerment program. Those who have lost the most will have a chance to gain some much deserved catharsis, like a carnival dunk tank for global capital…only with bullets.

      Some will call this proposal irresponsible and say you can’t just hand out guns to complete strangers who may have serious psychological disorders. But I know an organization where that’s routine. It’s called “The United States military.” Also, consider that we already arm the angst-laden, Ritalin-fueled high-schoolers who have been picked-on by the beautiful people.

      All I’m saying is, we have all these bankers, all these victims, and all these bullets. Something is gonna happen. We might as well get it organized and get it over.

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