Canada

You can’t fight the wildfire that will claim your hunting grounds with a fucking gun, genius.

correct. but we can dissuade the people who hold the match from lighting it.

fascism doesnt bow to democracy, authoritarians dont fear pies to the face, oligarchs dont care about your hunger strike. and monopolies dont give a fuck about a grass roots start up trying to save the environement, making them look bad in comparison. if anything they are a slight, but managable annoyance.

but every single one of those systems, individuals, all of them are scared of people with the ability to stop them from getting what they want. whether through spoken word, or physical resistance.

we live in a world where guns exist, we also live in a world where government representatives like the military, and police have guns. and so, we are at their mercy. they decide the laws, and unless we want to be shot or arrested and imprisoned, we must follow those laws. even if they ultimately lead to a postponed death through something like climate change.

i wish you could snap your fingers and make guns, and other weapons of violence and war no longer exist.

but they do, and those without them will forever be at the mercy of those who wield them.

excuse me while i butcher this quote.

"if i have a gun, and you have a gun, then we can have a conversation, if you have a gun, and i do not, then thats not a conversation, thats coercion"

guns are not integral to my beliefs, in fact i hate guns, when used as a tool for violence against human beings, but i will not be so naive as to think that uprooting an entire political system will not come without some degree of violent resistance. sooner, or later.

dreams are free, manifesting them requires sacrifice.

and id prefer they be on the altar, in our place.