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"This wide-ranging anthology uncovers the hidden histories of community armed self-defense, exploring how it has …

Review of 'Setting Sights' on Goodreads

4 stars

Powerful collection on armed defense in horizontalist/anarchist responses to oppression. Humbling and reconsidering: acceptance of state monopoly on violence, privilege of non-violence from outside, association of firearms with patriarchal power rather than bottom-up embedding. First third is theory and argument, last two are chronological histories of 20/21c, best of these are the many personal accounts including the editor's.