New Baghdad security policy: "ban on personal weapons"

[buzz_knox]

A gun ban in Iraq? Good luck with that!

I'm waiting for the following newstory:

"Iraq has declared a ban on civilian ownership of weapons. In a related development, the California Highway Patrol (CHP) is offering to deploy officers to Iraq to help with confiscation. Given their experience in New Orleans during the Katrina Crisis, the CHP is considered the optimum group for disarming civilians, at least if they consist of elderly women."

 

[Texas9]

Rrrr....

GUN BANS DON'T WORK. PERIOD.

 

[seeker_two]

Iraq's new prime minister promised Tuesday to show "no mercy" to terrorists and said before President Bush arrived for a surprise visit that a long-awaited security plan for Baghdad will include a curfew and a ban on personal weapons.

...and all this happens just in time for Bush's arrival and oversight...


If that doesn't speak volumes about this administration's RKBA position, I don't know what does...

 

[buzz_knox]

It happened before Bush got there, and is probably in response to Zarqawi's death as anything. It doesn't say anything about Bush.

If one of the points of the war was to set up a democratically elected gov't in Iraq, then we have to accept that what their representatives choose to do may not reflect what we would do. If you want them to think/act like us, then you want them as a puppet, and all the anti-American/anti-imperialist arguments are spot on.

 

[RealGun]

If one of the points of the war was to set up a democratically elected gov't in Iraq, then we have to accept that what their representatives choose to do may not reflect what we would do.

Maybe so, but I believe the Constitution boilerplate handed to them by the UN included gun restrictions. They simply never took it out or focused on it..