The War at Home

Speaking of black and white film, I bought a movie called "The War at Home," which chronicled the Vietnam protests at my alma mater, The University of Wisconsin in Madison. The protests start out peacefully and are attended by a committed few in the mid-1960s, but by the summer of 1970 (after the Kent State protests had killed four students) culminated in the bombing of the Army Math Research Center, in which one man was killed, although it was four am on a Saturday in the summer.
It was the largest home-made bomb to explode in the US until the Oklahoma City bomb in the 90s.
The footage in the movie was, again, a mixture of b and w and color. It of course started to be in color after the real violence kicked in after Dow Chemical, the makers of napalm, came to one of the buildings to interview interested students in fall 1967, and were being blockaded in one of the campus buildings.
Ralph Hansen, chief of campus security and improbably one of the mellowest cops ever (he was still there when I was) called Madison police (now a bunch of lesbians and whatever). They cleared the building brutally, with billy clubs to the head. Classes were then letting out and thousands of students were outraged when they saw what was going on and were shouting at and pushing the cops. Finally, the first tear-gassing of a college campus cleared people away, and Madison become famously (or infamously) violent and out of control for the next few years.
Just like then, I want to confront the warmakers at home. By this I mean the NRA, who are Unpatriotic and Unamerican in that they defend the murder of its citizens. Thousand of Americans each year are killed by handguns. I don't know for sure, but I will bet that the number of Americans killed by firearms each year is more than the toll of Vietnam deaths (55,000 plus).
My young friend Christian, though, has said (and I agree) that you cannot rely on the old tactics. The way to get publicity on your side is not to sit in at a university or capitol building. No one cares. Disrupt their transportation and communication.
What does this mean? Either preventing people from getting to work at the NRA building in jackass Northern Virginia (where they moved after finding DC none too welcoming and too close to the people they were killing) or not letting them out of the parking lots.
Then there would be blockading I-66, from which the NRA building, with its letters atop it (steal this sign and burn it!), are clearly visible. Drive heavy trucks in tandem down the interstate, then have them slow down and finally stop where the NRA building is. Get people to occupy the road, and when outraged drivers started to threaten them, have them point to the building.
Next would be to take out their communications. Get some computer nerd to completly cut off their computers and telephones.
This would definitely attract the attention of the press. It would also lead to the arrest of many of those involved, including (for conspiracy) myself. These are the stakes. With four-year olds being killed by gun crossfire, and a chickenshit Supreme Court only encouraging gun nuts, its time to take on the real killers, and not like OJ said. It is the war at home, and it's civilization versus barbarism, where every man fights for himself. It's also the only way to end racism, by disarming ghetto kids. And then they wouldn't be able to find a replacement so easily.
I always find it amusing that gun advocates (what, the guns can't speak for themselves?) talk about removing "illegal guns" from our streets.
Where do they think the weapons are made and sold? Are people stealing guns right from some assembly line somewhere. Somewhere, sometime, those guns are purchased legally.