The term "civil liberties" may connote different associations, depending on where you fall on the political spectrum. While some connect the term with the struggle for racial justice or reproductive freedom, for others it may evoke a belief in their right to bear arms. This week's guest on Sea Change Radio is John Stoehr, the founder and publisher of The Editorial Board. In the wake of the latest horrific rounds of gun violence in this country, Stoehr reflects on how America's lack of gun regulations reveals deeper societal flaws. He explains how the violent fervor surrounding so-called 2nd Amendment rights stems from a power structure rooted in white male dominance. He also connects the dots to the impending repeal of reproductive protections and xenophobic approaches to immigration.

Narrator: This is Sea Change Radio covering the shift to sustainability. I'm Alex Wise.

John Stoehr: A gun is a symbol of white power. More guns in circulation means the expansion of a police state that's run by people invested in preserving white power.

Narrator: 00:27 The term “civil liberties” may connote different associations, depending on where you fall on the political spectrum. While some connect the term with the struggle for racial justice or reproductive freedom, for others it may evoke a belief in their right to bear arms. This week’s guest on Sea Change Radio is John Stoehr, the founder and publisher of The Editorial Board. In the wake of the latest horrific rounds of gun violence in this country, Stoehr reflects on how America’s lack of gun regulations reveals deeper societal flaws. He explains how the violent fervor surrounding so-called 2nd Amendment rights stems from a power structure rooted in white male dominance. He also connects the dots to the impending repeal of reproductive protections and xenophobic approaches to immigration.

Alex Wise: 1:26 I'm joined now on Sea Change Radio by John Stoehr. He's the founder and publisher of The Editorial Board. John, welcome back to Sea Change Radio.

John Stoehr: 1:41 Thanks for having me.

Alex Wise 1:42 I've been wanting to talk to you for several months now since we last spoke. It looks like the Supreme Court is overturning Roe V. Wade and then we've had another spate of these horrible mass murderous shootings. The most horrific one out of the many at Uvalde in Texas, so you've written several pieces on both issues. You talk about the hypocrisy of the Republican Party wanting to put government into people's health care and their private lives by regulating women bodies. But then they also kind of just shrug when it comes to the regulation of guns, like what's the point of having laws they're going to break them anyway. Why don't you dive a little deeper into it if you can?

John Stoehr: 2:29 So what is the connection between Roe and the Second Amendment? They seem to be two separate things that really don't have much to do with each other. But they really do. In fact, they also connect to immigration. You really have to think of it in terms of the replacement theory. The replacement theory is pretty simple. It is White Americans in this country who fear being replaced at the center of power, it's not literal like I fear being replaced in this chair. No, it's about being decentered like white. White culture was American culture and now American culture is actually multicultural. It's diverse, it's multitudinous. And that rubs a lot of White Americans the wrong way and has rubbed Americans the wrong way, especially since the election of Barack Obama. So how do we connect these three things together? Well, in terms of guns, you want to expand the circulation. The distribution of guns to such a degree that non-white people in this country people who are already here.