Whether this extended sit-in on the lawn of the Colorado State Capitol gets the governor to sign a ban on guns and whether such a ban could survive constitutional challenge is beside the point. What matters is the idea of massive direct action demanding a ban. This is the only way to ever shifting toward a serious reduction in guns and therefore gun violence in the U.S. 2/

We need electeds and candidates to appreciate that they must envision and bring about a drastic diminishment of guns in this country. Using the techniques of the African-American civil rights movement to bring this about makes absolute sense. 3/

Never underestimate how out there the demands to end Jim Crow and to actualize voting rights seemed in the 1940s, 1950s, and much of the 1960s. People thought the legal, political, and constitutional obstacles were insuperable. But they were not. 4/

We need a reinterpretation of the 2nd Amendment, one that makes clear that a right to bear arms is not necessarily a right to own guns or to own many of the types of guns most aggressively marketed in this country. It certainly isn’t a right to own guns without serious limitations. #GunControl #LawFedi #Here4Kids #GoodTrouble 5/

It is inconsistent with the U.S. Constitution to interpret the 2nd Amendment in a way that converts the entire document into a suicide pact. The founders understood, as anybody else who takes the Constitution seriously does, that the Constitution is a plan for the preservation of life, liberty, and wellbeing. Gun violence menaces all three. 6/

The only way to shift the spurious narrative that has elevated gun ownership and use over all other purposes of joining together as a polity is to destabilize that narrative at its foundation. This is what massive direct action demanding a gun ban can do. #Here4Kids #GunBan #GunViolence #GoodTrouble 7/