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Originally posted by Superman
That's exactly right. And I'm wondering if anyone is going to take the bait. Is anyone going to take the position that gun control does not work here to reduce violence, but it will work in Fallujah?
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I am opposed to "gun control" in virually every form, everywhere.
It doesn't make anyone "safer" or reduce violence.
Guns are inanimate objects (even when given animate descriptors like "assault") and they require someone to use them. Removing the guns from Iraq will not make us safer, but removing the terrorist (or as you guys like to call them "insurgents") will. If we can't specifically identify the terrorist, but we find a cache of AK's we can temporarily disarm them which only makes them temporarily less dangerous.
As a proponent of "gun control" you fear the gun, you should fear the man holding it.
We did little or nothing to disarm the average Iraqi and that is as it should be. The best thing we can do is to arm (or allow them to arm themselves) the average Iraqi so that they can defend themselves and their families from those terrorists who quite obviously want to murder them as well as us.
Perhaps you should look at the roots of our current "gun control" policies and see who they were intended to disarm and by whom.
Pete