Re: Guns vs. Tyranny

From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue May 27 2003 - 20:52:53 MDT

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    Until a few months before the war, gun ownership was restricted to
    Baath Party members, according to some sources.

    --- 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-)
    >
    >

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