To: John H K
"...there are thousands of gun shops with handguns, rifles, and shotguns throughout Iraq."
Interesting...so the rhetoric about an armed populace being a free populace, or the dictum that dictators ban guns after they take over a people doesn't quite match!
Ed
1,220 posted on
04/05/2003 1:28:27 AM PST by
GOPyouth
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To: Sir_Ed
Depends on who's allowed to buy those weapons, and which ones.
1,221 posted on
04/05/2003 1:28:37 AM PST by
algol
To: Sir_Ed
From what I've read/heard, only Baath part members, or Saddam Loyalists are allowed to own weapons and ammo...
To: Sir_Ed
Interesting...so the rhetoric about an armed populace being a free populace, or the dictum that dictators ban guns after they take over a people doesn't quite match! Not everyone can own a gun there, much less ever go practice with one - you have to be a Baathist party member and so on. And anything you buy is duly noted by a government with a passion for documentation. So to say that the average Iraqi can own a gun is really jost media BS.
1,256 posted on
04/05/2003 1:33:01 AM PST by
piasa
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