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but i dont think having a gun makes you free.
guns are commodities like any other.
at one level, it would be like arguing that having a nice hat makes you free.
on the other hand, guns can kill people. so in a kind of flintstone way, they make it more possible to separate yourself from your environment.
but if you are not thinking about what this freedom thing might be, what kind of order would enable it, and whether this is or is not that order, then you are not free because you have a gun.
you are just like everyone else who you might see as a willing servant of the existing order, except that you are an armed willing servant of the existing order.
and i do not see how you are thinking if you simply turn round and round within the circles set for you by the dominant ideology, even if you do some subversive shopping and isolate certain features that you like--nation, "the real america"--if you cannot step outside those terms and consider why they operate for you..
otherwise, your politics are a form of consumerism.
and buying shit does not make you free.
freedom, if such a thing is possible under the present economic and social regimes, is a politics.
a gun is a thing, an object.
there is nothing magical about it.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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