The campaign to remove guns from proletariat ...

The campaign to remove guns from proletariat (but not bourgeois government) strata is based on emotion, and that is the weakest platform to agitate from. Because there are no real emotions in American society any more, and where they threaten to arise they are immediately dealt with swiftly and surely, emotion is an anachronistic and wholly ineffectual way of forming the consciousness of the television viewing public.