Dyspeptic Gunsmith: Arming Civilians Not Necessarily The Answer to the Loss of Liberty

By Robert Farago

TTAG commentator Dyspeptic Gunsmith write:

From talking to a couple dozen combat vets of Iraq and Afghanistan, I think it is a highly dubious proposition that armed civilians in the Islamic world will fight off terrorists and thugs. In central and south America, I don’t think that the people would maintain any sort of freedom if you could wave a magic wand and make the cartels disappear overnight. Look at what people vote for – just look at Venezuela for an example. Here’s an example of how mere guns don’t magically result in liberty . . .

In Afghanistan, most households have at least one AK in their possession. Oftentimes, they had more than on AK. Ammo was plentiful enough that every household had at least a hundred rounds ready to go.

The Taliban were thugs, I was told by our vets. Sure, they had their religion angle to them, but at their core, they’re straight-up thugs. A couple/three Talibunnies would come into villages of 200 to 500 people and terrorize them, sometimes raping the single women, stealing from farmers and merchants, and telling the people what to do, burning books, telling women what to wear, not to leave the house, etc.

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