@peterschweizer Or give weapons to the Iranian People and let THEM initiate regime change. Would be chaos and bloody, but they wouldn’t be able to threaten anyone while it was happening
@glennbeck@VP Can’t empower them without giving them the means. Should have dropped thousands and thousands of weapons. Even pistols would have helped.
One key issue—if there actually was an uprising, considering IRGC and Basij include hundreds of thousands of vicious armed thugs, the result might be a lengthy civil war. In such a war, how would we secure the enriched uranium?
Also, IRGC etc. CANNOT surrender. They know they would be killed, and deservedly so. And who would agree to take them in exile?
Treated with respect, and especially obeying the Four Basic Rules of Gun Safety, there is no reason to feel unsafe around guns, that feeling is entirely due to lack of knowledge.
The Four Rules: Loaded, Laser, Straight and Sure.
Loaded: Always assume EVERY gun is loaded and ready to fire unless YOU have personally ensured it is empty.
Laser: Treat your gun like a laser. NEVER point it at anyone or anything you don’t want to destroy. (Unless you have to in lawful self-defense of course).
Straight: Keep your trigger finger straight and AWAY FROM THE TRIGGER until you are ready to shoot.
Sure: Be SURE of the identity of your target and what is in front of and behind it.
Big media in the US is extremely Left-leaning, and incredibly ignorant about guns, gun violence, and the Constitution. Its decades-long anti-gun rights propaganda has essentially created any controversy that exists.
The evidence is that privately owned guns are used FAR MORE OFTEN to PREVENT criminal attacks than they are used in crime. This has been known to professional criminologists since the 1990s when Gary Kleck and others first began performing surveys of gun use.
It’s also a fact, established by numerous surveys of prisoners, that criminals are FAR MORE AFRAID of being shot by a presumed victim than they are of anything the police might do to them.
This is why American burglars spend MUCH more time ensuring that houses are not inhabited before breaking in, than they do in Canada and the UK for instance. I have actually read that UK criminals, because of improved burglar alarms in that country, are now increasingly likely to break in WHILE THE VICTIMS ARE HOME—essentially a home invasion—because they think people will have their alarm off while they are home.
And while America does have a higher homicide rate than supposedly more civilized, “gun-free” European nations, it cannot be emphasized enough that this problem is HIGHLY concentrated among poor urban Blacks. HALF of all homicide victims each year are young Black males 15-40, almost always killed by other young Black males. So THREE PERCENT of the Population is responsible for Half of the homicides, and the dangerous areas where they occur are in highly concentrated poor neighborhoods of largely Democrat-run big cities.
Homicide rates for White and Asian Americans, and yes, Middle Class Black Americans, are comparable to or even lower than European rates.
The fact is the VAST majority of gun owners in the U.S. are responsible, law-abiding citizens. And we rightly believe that guns make us safer.