Morning Joe: Hard to Subdue Ukraine—People Have a Million Guns!

NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Wait! Was that an NRA spokesman on Morning Joe today, making the case for the Second Amendment?

Nope, turns out it was actually David Ignatius. But the hyper-establishment Washington Post columnist/editor and Morning Joe foreign-policy maven unwittingly made a strong case for the right to keep and bear arms!

"He's going to face a guerrilla warfare, extended partisan warfare in Ukraine. There -- I counted 400,000 people who've received some kind of militia training. There are a million guns floating around Ukraine. I mean, it's a place where it’d be hard to subdue the population."

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[Mr. Jeeves]

...but Taiwan would rather fall to China, than let their population be armed.

Corrupt corporate-owned politicians always make that calculation. Easier to buy off the incoming dictator than risk losing everything in a hot war.