What The Left Plans For The Rest Of Us

In a comment to my post "Do They Understand The Possible Consequences?" long time reader Steve S6 pointed me to this article at Metallicman, "What the Progressive Socialist Liberals have in store for Conservatives" (Part 1) (Part 2). And while conservatives think we have the upper hand for various reasons (but probably because of the much higher rates of gun ownership), the articles contains two warnings that we should heed. 

    First, when the balloon goes up, authorities will be going around to forcibly collect those firearms; and if you refuse, they may shoot you on the spot or simply destroy your house with you in it. Apparently this is what they did in the Balkans War. In that case, the only people that had firearms after SHTF were those that possessed them illegally--without them being registered with the government (or in the case of the U.S. in a retail/ATF database).  

    Second, we are probably underestimating their abilities. In Part 2 of the Metallicman article, he cautions that "they will be better armed, and trained than what you are expecting." He also notes that "their mass base skewers far younger, they have a legal system and  media providing overhead cover for their actions, and from our  observation, their level and speed of organization have far surpassed  what the Right was able to accomplish in twice the time." This is not surprising. We saw this type of organization in the 1960s as to the various radical groups, even terrorist groups like the Weather Underground. The left has been doing this--refining this--for decades. For instance, just yesterday, S2 Underground related in a post on X:

By my count, there are at least 55 different legal groups in Minnesota alone that are providing free legal services to the groups conducting these destabilization operations. Whenever federal agents make an arrest at a violent riot, the suspect is usually released a few hours later, and provided with a wealth of free resources. 

(See also Mutual Aid Disaster Relief as an example of organization among the left). The right has not even begun to put together these types of networks.

    Beyond the left having lawyers on speed dial is that they have been training up their direct action people, everything from the front line protestors to the groups that provide "security" such as the Puget Sound John Brown Gun Club (JBGC), the Rhode Island JBGC, Redneck Revolt, and other similar groups. Back in 2019, Tactical Hermit wrote about this in his article, "An Examination of the New Violent Left in America," which is cited in Part 2 of the Metallicman article. An excerpt:

    To get a sense of where the average leftist is at regarding violence, there is this overly biased article from the Guardian.  In which members of the the Puget Sound John Brown Gun Club stated that they were willing to be armed and get violent if need be to “Provide Security and Protect themselves from Right Wing Aggression.” This is classic deflection (blame) rhetoric. Since in most every video I can find of ANTIFA, it is THESE morons that start the fights, not the Trump Supporters or “Right Wing” groups.

    The PSJBGC go on to clearly state on their website that they believe in “ACTIVE RESISTANCE” and that they train in Defense which includes the right to own, carry, and train with tactically useful rifles, pistols, and body armor. Not sure what “tactically useful” means here, but it is clear, at least to me, that they are trying to be better organized and sound more martially active or “warlike” if you will than other groups you typically find in this ilk which look and sound downright effeminate and weak. 

 That was in 2019. The training has only continued. On November 24, 2025, Wired published an article entitled "The Hard-Left Shooters Leading a Gun Culture Revolution" by Manisha Krishnan. The author relates how in July, prior to Kirk's assassination, she was riding in a golf cart to a shooting range near Parma, Idaho, with "a 22-year-old YouTuber who goes by Gun Bunny, ... a Russian Jew who is poly-pansexual" and  "an Indigenous-Mexican Slovak Jew who is trans and chronically disabled." They were there to take part in the High Desert Brutality match hosted by Karl Kasarda, who runs the InRange TV YouTube channel, and who the article describes as "[a] 51-year-old cis white man whose love of subcultures spans hacking, industrial music, and a stint as a minister with the Satanic Temple[.]" "But," the article adds, "there is no question he is largely responsible for building this alternative gun community, which he and others describe as the 'punk rock outsiders of the shooting community.'" The article continues:

These tensions have gotten worse under Trump 2.0. After the president was reelected, left-leaning and queer-focused firearms organizations and classes like the Liberal Gun Club and the Pink Pistols told me they were seeing major spikes in interest and attendance. In early September, media outlets reported that Justice Department officials were considering a gun ban for trans people. In response, one trans gun content creator recommended trans Americans who’d been planning to purchase firearms “do so now.” 

Now I am not saying that every leftist (or even a majority of them) attending classes and events like that described above want an armed revolution; but there are some--probably too many--that do (see, e.g,, "Founder of Armed Queers group investigated in Charlie Kirk shooting is radical trans leftist who advocated violence"--New York Post; "Anti-Fascist. Armed to the Teeth"--Rolling Stone). The Rolling Stone article, for instance, relates:

    In 2019, the JBGC made headlines when 69-year-old Willem Van Spronsen, a senior member of the Puget Sound chapter, attacked an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Tacoma, Washington. Van Spronsen infiltrated the property with a semiautomatic rifle and several Molotov cocktails, before being shot and killed by police. Van Spronsen’s premeditated attack is a notable exception in the group’s history, in which they’ve rarely participated in violence. But his attack and his farewell letter to another member, in which he wrote, “I am antifa” — a reference to anti-fascist activism — gained attention, in particular, from the right.  

    Since Van Spronsen’s death, the number of active JBGC chapters around the country has increased dramatically, based on dozens of new JBGC Twitter accounts popping up. JBGCs have no central leadership or formal organization, instead operating as a loosely connected network of independent cells. Many members wear a patch with a stylized cartoon of their group’s namesake, bordered by the words “I don’t argue with people John Brown would have shot.” Chapters often range in size from around half a dozen members to more than 20, who are usually vetted through personal connections and in-person meetings before being welcomed in. ...

 The author also relates the camaraderie and mission orientation of such groups:

 The John Brown Gun Clubs operate independently but share a similar ethos: Direct action to counter the threat of the far right, and their members are dedicated to anti-fascism, anti-racism, and anti-bigotry. Most groups I spoke to emphasize that showing up armed is only part of their work, mentioning supply drives for unhoused people during Texas’ deep freezes and other mutual-aid events. “The gun stuff doesn’t exist without all this other stuff,” says one JBGC member who goes by the name Accountant. “If we’re going to be carrying guns, there has to be a community reason for it.”    

In other words, they aren't just meeting on weekends just to shoot a some targets, exchange some tall tales, and go home. If things go like they did in the 1960s and '70s, these people will soon be shadowing law enforcement and gathering intelligence, if they are not already doing so.