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Disarming Iraq, or Disarming Iraqis?
Ashbrook Center ^ | April 2003 | Andrew E. Busch

Posted on 04/15/2003 4:14:31 PM PDT by just me

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1 posted on 04/15/2003 4:14:32 PM PDT by just me
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To: just me
Good post, BTTT
2 posted on 04/15/2003 4:18:50 PM PDT by Notforprophet (All rights reversed)
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3 posted on 04/15/2003 4:20:03 PM PDT by Support Free Republic (Your support keeps Free Republic going strong!)
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To: just me
While our forces are there, the answer to the lead question of this article is, YES.
4 posted on 04/15/2003 4:20:24 PM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: just me
The weapons they are taking, for the most part, are fully automatic Kalishnikovs. There are probably large amounts of military hardware in private hands now, due to the chaos and breakdown of formal military units in Iraq. I think that after we pull a few million grenades and assault rifles out of circulation, we can have this conversation again, and reflect upon what kind of 2nd Amendment laws the Iraqis should set for themselves. As for right now, that place needs to be declawed considerably.

5 posted on 04/15/2003 4:23:17 PM PDT by Steel Wolf (Like water in a bucket.... calm but deadly...)
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To: just me
The way to guard against tyranny is to build groups, and groups within groups

At the time of the American Revolution, the building block of society was the town. The town elected it's own leaders, and elected its own sheriff to enforce the laws. The various townships made up a county, counties made up a state, and the states banded together to make up the United States.

Within a township, and individual may feel secure. He knows his neighbors and feels a sense of community with them, An outside oppressor cannot get to him if his township is opposed.

6 posted on 04/15/2003 4:27:21 PM PDT by SauronOfMordor (Heavily armed, easily bored, and off my medication)
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To: anniegetyourgun
Yes I, too, am concerned for our troops being there with the Iraqis weilding those AK-47's about like they are toys. None of them have ever held a gun before and here they are brandishing them about and shooting into the air willy nilly. I've seen this many times on tv this past week.
7 posted on 04/15/2003 4:31:05 PM PDT by the Deejay
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In Baghdad, however, events have taken a very different turn. Faced with both looting and continued activity by pro-Saddam thugs and foreign Arabs, Baghdad’s armed citizens formed self-defense forces to enforce checkpoints and defend neighborhoods, businesses, and hospitals. Almost invariably referred to by the media as "vigilantes," these groups were actually often something far nobler, perhaps even the first sign of the capacity of Iraqis for self-government in the post-Saddam era. They represented a spontaneous effort to take responsibility for their own society, and to defend a civilization worth having. They also made it possible to restore order much earlier than might have been the case if U.S. military forces had to carry the entire burden. It is exactly this sort of initiative that the liberators of Iraq should welcome and encourage.

We freed the people, so let them have their guns....
Let them have freedom....
8 posted on 04/15/2003 4:44:34 PM PDT by just me
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I like your idea....
9 posted on 04/15/2003 4:47:18 PM PDT by Arpege92
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To: just me
How 'bout we do that once our boys are out of harms way.....
13 posted on 04/15/2003 4:54:02 PM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: seamole
In the scale of countries where everyone has an assault rifle, I have the feeling that Iraq would fall closer to the 'Somalia' end of the scale than the 'Switzerland' side. For the time being, I think we should keep their game in low gear, until their country is back on it's feet, and they're ready to decide how heavily armed a society they want to be.
14 posted on 04/15/2003 4:59:36 PM PDT by Steel Wolf (Like water in a bucket.... calm but deadly...)
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To: anniegetyourgun
Take the guns of anyone running amuck yes.
Do not do house to house searches...

Eveyone knows when you loose a right you never get it back.
15 posted on 04/15/2003 5:00:46 PM PDT by just me
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To: just me
I can get with that plan. I don't, however, ever worry about Iraqis being stripped of their 'rights' - since they had none to speak of. It can only get better and WE aren't going to be establishing their set of 'rights' anyway.

Besides, everyone knows that there isn't a Muslim nation around that will go unarmed for long. They all need something readily available for the next call to kill all the infidels and Jews.

18 posted on 04/15/2003 5:15:01 PM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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""They all need something readily available for the next call to kill all the infidels and Jews.""

I do not believe the people of Iraq want to kill us.
(Not counting Saddam and his thugs that opressed the people)

Not all Muslims are evil.
Like the Christains they have different believes in their God.
I guess Iraq will never truly be free...
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We won't be there forever, no doubt some of Saddam's thugs
will be around to kill the traders.
I do believe they have the right to armed



19 posted on 04/15/2003 5:30:37 PM PDT by just me
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To: seamole
agreed, and upped: I think a vital part of the occupation and pacification should be to organize communities into militias and train them in weapons use and small unit tactics.
20 posted on 04/15/2003 9:33:37 PM PDT by demosthenes the elder (If *I* can afford $5/month to support FR: SO CAN YOU)
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