On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 12:40:52PM +0000, Ken Brown wrote: > Harmon Seaver wrote: > > > What sort of dictatorship is this where the people own automatic weapons > > freely? Shades of Switzerland! > > Soviet Armenia? > > When they fell out with the Azeris they got their scratch army together > in /days/ > > According to the Russian news they used "hunting rifles". > > I'd been reading enough of the gun-wanking propaganda from the US on > lists like this to think that people in places like Armenia didn't have > guns. Turns out that in some rural parts of USSR quite a lot of people > had them and of course it all made no difference to anything political > whatever as long as the Soviets were willing to control the place. As > soon as it became obvious that no Russians intended to die to keep > Armenia in the Union, things changed.
Well, yes, of course people most places have hunting weapons, even in oppressive states like Nazi Germany and the USSR -- even in England, I believe -- but everything I've read so far about Iraq is talking about AK-47s. Supposedly hundreds of thousands of civilians at the very least own them, and, according to varied news items, they are either issued by the gov't or people just buy them on the open market. The open weapons markets of Pakistan and Afgahnistan have been world reknowned for ages, but I was very surprised to learn this about Iraq. Lebanon had no control over weapons, of course, but I wonder if the whole Middle East isn't just flowing with Kalashnikovs with little real restrictions. Perhaps most of the world is -- only the fascist police states of the 1st World being anti-gun. BTW, here's a neat little accessory for your Kalashnikov: http://www.audiobooksforfree.com/kalashnikov/Ak-mp3.asp -- Harmon Seaver CyberShamanix http://www.cybershamanix.com We are now in America's Darkest Hour. http://www.oshkoshbygosh.org hoka hey!
