Good lord, *choke*, not another G*N THREAD, was Re: Guns vs. Tyranny

From: Michael M. Butler (mmb@spies.com)
Date: Tue May 27 2003 - 18:55:45 MDT

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    On Tue, 27 May 2003 16:39:35 -0700, Damien Sullivan
    <phoenix@ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:

    > So, a common theme in gun debates is the idea of an armed populace using
    > guns
    > to overthrow an oppressive government, and claims of the Nazis disarming
    > populations before they put the boot in, and so on. But there have been
    > many
    > claims recently of Iraq's population being heavily armed, and having a
    > strong
    > gun culture. Yet they didn't overthrow Saddam...
    >
    > http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0528/p11s02-coop.html
    >
    > -xx-Damien X-)

    Yet the Iranians overthrew Reza Pahlavi, did they not? What is your point
    here? That guns don't make a civil war a slam-dunk?

    Well, duh.

    BTW, "resist" != "overthrow". And the expression "strong gun culture" is a
    very peculiar one. Whee did you get it, pray? From any of the people who
    resisted in Iraq in 1991 and were slaughtered by the "strong gun culture"
    of the Baathists?

    Check out the "strong machete cultures" in Equatorial Africa some time.

    MMB 

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