[Pitchfork]

Considering that Shiia cleric in southern Iraq have just issued a fatwa against US forces, Saddam may want to consider making weapons available to them.

[jwalsh07]

Considering that Shiia cleric in southern Iraq have just issued a fatwa against US forces

Oh no, another fatwa issued by another cleric in another nest of jihadists.

What is one to do?

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

Nevertheless the premise on which your argument resides is flawed. If the United States government allowed only Democrat Hispanic Catholics to own arms then we'd have an comparable situation to Iraq.

[EternalVigilance]

Well, I waited 45 minutes for a reply. One last attempt to get a response:


Well, Pitchfork, how about it?

How much of a good thing was it when the Soviets disarmed the populace? Could they have filled the Gulags without first disarming the people?

Was it a societal good when Hitler's brownshirted minions disarmed the Germans?

What do you think might have happened on the little island of Cuba in the last 40-odd years if the Cuban people were well-armed? Do you think Castro could have maintained his little tyranny?

How about China? Could the fascist Chinese government have slaughtered the young people of Bejing with impunity if every Chinese family owned a military rifle or two?

You're real good at raising issues--but damn poor at answering serious questions.


232 posted on 03/14/2003 11:15 PM CST by EternalVigilance

[Teacher317]

Also, to add to your summer reading list: Balint Vazsonyi's "America's Thirty Years War" (ISBN: 0895263548). He's far gentler than us FReepers at explaining the differences between those advocating social justice and those advocating individual inalienable rights, and the path that each leads to.

(He was a world-class concert pianist from Hungary who recently passed away.)