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armed non violent armed non violent can the two methods for resisting tyranny be usefully combined home my articles saturday october 10 2015 reason article here s another article supporting my thesis cobb does not discount the importance of nonviolent protest but he demonstrates with considerable evidence that desegregation and voting rights could not have been achieved without the complementary and still underappreciated practice of armed self defense how crazy negroes with guns helped kill jim crow posted by paul bonneau at 10 33 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday june 21 2012 i m retiring i have seen no interest in this subject so have decided to spend no more time with it i did try to contact a couple of academics interested in non violent resistance but they appear to be either pacifists or hoplophobes so that was pretty fruitless however if i can figure out this blog software i will post the links to the articles i have published on the internet for those who are interested see the page above called my articles posted by paul bonneau at 7 13 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday may 18 2011 non violence is collective defense is individual here s one way of looking at the two concepts non violence is clearly most impressive when you can put a million people on the streets the best examples according to gene sharp are those that are planned and run by a committed knowledgeable cadre of leaders in effect we see a struggle between two groups the resistance leadership and the regime backed by it s hoped nonviolent protesters on the one side and police and army on the other defense on the other hand is individualistic criminologist gary kleck for example has noted that americans use firearms for defense on the order of 2 5 million times per year and annually kill twice as many criminals as police do these are virtually all individual actions given the different venues for the two it may be that one does not necessarily preclude the other it s clear that with large actions such as the recent overthrow of mubarak in egypt you want to keep the protesters nonviolent and guard against regime provocateurs turning it violent but when you have come home from the demonstration and someone pounds on your door at 3 am in the morning to arrest you what end does maintaining a nonviolent posture serve keep in mind the egyptian action included informal block defense committees arising spontaneously as police activities vanished and many of these included armed defense in what way did this harm the overall non violent protest could it not actually have helped it instead by showing people that protection can be had without police didn t it thus further reduce the legitimacy of the police a usual aim of nonviolent protest posted by paul bonneau at 7 27 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday may 14 2011 isn t that blog name an oxymoron how can one be armed and non violent being armed implies at least the possibility of violence right i think this is a deeper question than it first appears first there is a semantic element most people would agree that aggressive violence is bad and most would admit that defensive violence is at least justifiable or even good are these two just subsets of the overall concept of violence or are they completely different things i examined this question in a short article here good violence part of the problem with the discussion of non violent strategy and tactics is that proponents just seem to lump it all together as if there is no distinction between aggressive violence and defensive violence i think there is a huge distinction and that recognizing that distinction will give rise to the question whether non violent strategy must necessarily preclude defensive violence non violence is naturally opposed to aggressive violence that is clear gene sharp part 3 starting page 594 makes an excellent case that non violent resistance must not be tainted by violent activities by this i assume he mostly means aggressive violence e g riots as did gandhi before him but is defensive violence also precluded sharp is silent on this at least as far as i have been able to determine so far if anyone knows otherwise i d appreciate a reference so i can look at it posted by paul bonneau at 5 56 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday april 27 2011 initial post what s this about i ve been thinking about the dichotomy between two methods of opposing tyranny armed resistance and non violent resistance and wondering if they are really mutually exclusive as most writers and researchers seem to assume might they both be useful each in their own way and under different circumstances i intend to examine the question on this my first blog posted by paul bonneau at 4 42 pm 1 comment email this blogthis 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