pro-gun leftists

• quotes
  • "If you go far enough left, you get your guns back."
  • "We might fuck queer, but we shoot straight."
• Wikipedia articles:
  • currently-active organizations with a leftist bent
    • Socialist Rifle Association
    • Huey P. Newton Gun Club
    • Black Riders Liberation Party
    • Redneck Revolt
    • Black Women's Defense League
    • Not Fucking Around Coalition, may not be lefist, but they do bill themselves as "America's largest Black militia", which is something... I guess...?
  • more notable historical stuff
    • Mulford Act, the gun-control act that passed in California, signed by Reagan and supported by the NRA, in response to Black Panthers carrying guns inside the California State Capitol building on May 2, 1967 [photos] [2] [3] (as well as previous open-carry copwatch activities)
      • other gun-control efforts were racist as well
    • people/organizations active in the South:
      • Robert F. Williams, president of the Monroe, NC chapter of the NAACP in the 1950s and into 1961, and author of Negroes with Guns
      • Deacons for Defense and Justice, active in Bogalusa, LA
        • Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick, co-founder
        • Bob Hicks, co-founder
        • Deacons for Defense (film)
      • the Red Summer of 1919
        • the July 10, 1919 assault on Samuel L. Jones' home in Longview, TX. "A dozen or so armed whites arrived at Jones’ house and tried to enter by force, but the Black men opened fire on the white attackers. Several of the white men were injured. The mob fled and went to alert their friends and relatives. Grown now to nearly a thousand men, incensed by the specter of Black self-defense, the white mob returned to Jones’ house and burned it to the ground."
        • the Elaine massacre in Phillips County, AR on September 30, 1919 — 5 white men and possibly "more than a hundred" black men killed
      • Hartman Turnbow, May 8, 1963, Mississippi. " 'About 2 weeks or a little after that my house was firebombed and shot in all at the same time.' Turnbow shot back at the night riders with his .22 rifle, and it was rumored that he may have killed one of them. Turnbow believed that he had a right to defend himself and his family, explaining, 'I had a wife and I had a daughter and I loved my wife just like the white man loves his’n and a white man will die for his’n and I say I’ll die for mine.' "
    • people/organizations active outside of the South:
      • Ossian Sweet, charged with murder for defending himself against white attackers in Detroit in 1925
• news articles:
  • "A History Of African-American Gun Advocacy -- And Why It's Never Talked About", by John Merfeld, published by Wisconsin Public Radio on May 2016
  • "I’m a left-wing anarchist. Guns aren’t just for right-wingers.", by Kim Kelly, published by Vox.com July 2019
  • "The Leftist Argument Against Gun Control", by Eve Peyser, published by VICE on Oct 2017
  • "Huey P. Newton Gun Club in Dallas Are Responding to Police Brutality with Armed Community Patrols", by Aaron Lake Smith, published by VICE on Jan 2015
  • "The Long, Fascinating History of Leftist Self-Defense", by Elizabeth King, published by Pacific Standard on Jul 2017
  • "Why Some Members of the Far Left Advocate Against Gun Control", by Elizabeth King, published by Pacific Standard on Nov 2017
• books:
  • This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible, by Charles E. Cobb Jr., published 2014
    • articles about this book: [1] [more]
  • The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender, and the Black Panther Party in Oakland by Robyn C. Spencer, chapter 2 "In Defense of Self-Defense"
  • Negroes and the Gun: The Black Tradition of Arms, by professor Nicholas Johnson, published 2014
    • He has posted a video at PragerU, spoke at the Federalist Society twice, and wrote an article for reason.com. He is absolutely not a leftist, but he does seem to support the idea of community defense. (What's someone with a J.D. from Harvard doing at PragerU, anyway?!)
    • articles about this book: [1]