American Gun Culture Report

28/01/2025

Here's my neighborhood...

My block looks much like America. A mix of mid-century development with homeowners, rental properties, flag lots… even one small elder care retirement home. The community is still mostly white, but…

23/01/2025

also available on Bluesky…

18/11/2024

With Trump’s recent reelection and the prospect of right wing violence rising once more , it’s that time again when myself (and every other armed leftist) receives more requests for guidance and tr…

16/02/2024

https://profellsworth.transistor.fm

22 years ago today Babette: The Many Lives, Two Deaths and Double Kidnapping of Dr. Ellsworth passed away spectacularly in front of forty students on her Mt. St. Hellens tour. Commemorating her unique and complicated life, I’m releasing the story of our adventures together for free in podcast form. If you enjoy the book, feel free to contribute a few bucks via PayPal or Venmo but I also appreciate shares on the socials or brief reviews. Thanks so much to everyone who helped make this all happen, it really means a lot!

A college student moves in with his elderly history professor and soon discovers her connections with a mysterious abduction, WWII N**i collaborators, the assassin of Rasputin and an unorthodox Benedictine convent. The true story of trans pioneer who fiercely defied stereotypes and forged her own pa...

13/02/2024

I’m excited to announce that my book, originally published in 2014 by Heliocentric Press (thanks Cricket) and out of print since 2015 is finally available as an audiobook. If you read the original, which won 1st place for Trans Non-Fiction from the Rainbow Awards, this edition contains many new elements, from sensational information collected on research trips through Southern France (thanks Eric Smiley) and Ireland, plus additional editing by Kate Savage, original intro music composed by David Coniglio, original outro music composed by am denizen and a new cover design by Teija Lammi. I narrated the improved manuscript myself over the last 1.5 years during fleeting moments after the children went to bed and edited the sound files to an extremely high quality. The link is for Google play but you can also currently find it on Kobo, Libro.fm, hoopla and through other services hopefully soon.

Note of caution: This book is highly explicit and disturbing at times, containing many graphic themes plus significant adult language. It is rated “E” or 18+ on hosting services and listener discretion is advised.
https://play.google.com/store/audiobooks/details/Babette_The_Many_Lives_Two_Deaths_and_Double_Kidna?id=AQAAAECSai0qrM&hl=en_CA&gl=CA

18/04/2023

Specific details didn't make this article but earlier reporting verified the gun used to stop the mass shooter was a braced AR pistol.

In 2020, Portland’s racial justice protests brought five women together over the shared interest of keeping their community safe. Two years later, their lives were torn apart when an enraged stranger opened fire on them at a park in Northeast Portland. The women’s stories provide a new perspecti...

14/03/2023

Tense times on the Portland eastside...

“Hey little n*****s, get outta the park!”  It’s March 6th 2023 in Portland, Oregon. A white man driving a shiny red pickup screams at my kids who are playing in our neighborhood park just befo…

15/12/2022

Sometimes I can get a decent quote through to NPR...

Oregon's Measure 114 gives county sheriffs and police chiefs discretion to determine who qualifies to purchase a firearm. Opponents say the criteria to make those decisions is ambiguous.

30/11/2022

After the Club Q massacre, there’s no comparing far-right violence and community self-defense.

28/11/2022

New article up reviewing the challenges with 114 passing...https://occupy2a.blog/2022/11/27/surviving-measure-114/

21/10/2022

Thanks to everyone who helped fighting this!

Measure 114 feels good on the surface but will disproportionately harm Black, Indigenous, communities of color, q***r, and marginalized communities.

06/09/2022

Extra huge thanks to everyone who contributed to this effort...we're over halfway there!

1. I was asked by an indigenous activist in rural Oregon to help provide community defense training and organize security details for events. She lives under constant threat from local fascists who…

04/09/2022

I managed an argument in the Oregon voter pamphlet...but it was expensive. Any help offsetting that is much appreciated! Thanks...

As many of you know, I’m Ross Eliot, former publisher of American Gun Cultur… Ross Eliot needs your support for Help Stop Oregon's Anti-Community Defense Law

25/06/2022

04/06/2022

here's a short treatment...

A follow up to 10 Tips: How To Talk to Liberals About Guns Ukrainian civilians training for community defense Don’t Be Pushy. Debating gun politics is never smart while another mass shooting domina…

05/04/2022

not particularly gun related, but still anti-fascist content

Shoemaker, 1956 Raymond Duncan Shoemaker, (1894-1977) hardly fit common stereotypes of a political radical. Yet in 1959, this respected judge accused local police of attempting to run Portland, Ore…

10/03/2022

Q: Why should I care about the Russian invasion when countries do this all the time? Maybe it sucks for Ukraine but that’s their problem. A: This is the largest scale war between major European nat…

28/02/2022

https://occupy2a.blog/2022/02/28/the-portland-park-mass-shooting/

Since 2004 I’ve written about gun politics and conducted defensive small arms training among threatened communities. This background provided much perspective on the escalation following Donald Tru…