[Cultural Jihad]

Yes, I would imagine the Kurds had rifles, supposedly. Thousands of them died in a matter of minutes. Certainly 100,000,000 hunting rifles would be a formidible stumbling block, but not an insurmountable one.

[philman_36]

So you think it's okay for a government to gas it's Citizens with sarin gas if they are thinking of revolting and overthrowing a despotic government?

[Jeff Head]

My understanding is that most of the kurds in those towns were women, children and older men ... and unarmed

Either way, it is not an apt comaprison to our nation where there are something like 80+ million armed and they are fairly evenly dissimanted all over the country. Like I said, such an effort today in this country, whether by terrorists or agencies of government, would only serve to really PO those with the arsms and then it would be abject open-season on those perpetrators ... there would literally be no place for them to hide.

This is not to say that we do not need government or a organized military ... we do, to make sure that other nations don't try and make all-out war on us.

It's just that said government and military must always be cognizant by whose leave they serve. If these governmental servants know that the citizenry is well armed, then they will be most apt to keep that in mind.