Race Relations

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Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

UT: one thing to consider -- as of when do Iraq's houses each have their AKs? During Saddam, or afterwards? I don't know, and I don't think you know either. During Saddam's time, revolts would, I think, have been more successful with an AK in every house, not so? This is why I haven't been much influenced by your example either time you've offered it.

It is customary for Iraqi familes to have a rifle. This hasn't changed.

Hundreds of thousands of rifles in private hands didn't cause revolt or prevent a hundred thousand dead in mass graves.

When England had guns all through its society, it also had a crime rate so low that English policemen went about armed about equally with a nightstick and slightly stuffy virtue -- and were effective.

Well, not so effective in Iraq. And not creating a society you'd want to live in. Doesn't that suggest to you that the guns aren't the fulcrum of freedom you think they are?