[bt_dooftlook]

My advice is to insist on a civilian militia (a la Switzerland) with a minimal standing army (self-defense force). Guns in the hands of civilians are the greatest threat to would-be dictators and criminal thugs...IMHO

[Bitter Bierce]

I don't know if this is breaking news or not, but Fox has just reported that indications are that the irregular Iraqi troops in Basrah are dressing up in U.S. uniforms, accepting the surrender of civilians, and then slaughtering them. That is apparently the "final solution" to the problem of a pupular uprising in that city, which revolted during the Gulf War in 1991.

[AZLiberty]

My advice is to insist on a civilian militia (a la Switzerland) with a minimal standing army (self-defense force). Guns in the hands of civilians are the greatest threat to would-be dictators and criminal thugs...IMHO

That's what I would have thought, too, and yet some of the news video out of Iraq seems to show that the Iraqi man-in-the-street already has his own AK-47.