Sectarian Strife Fuels Gun Sales in Baghdad

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With chipped, painted fingernails, Nahrawan al-Janabi picked up a cartridge and slid it into the chamber. "Like this," she said, loading her new Glock pistol with a loud, satisfying click. "You see, like this."

Akram Abdulzahra now keeps his revolver handy at his job in an Internet cafe. Haidar Hussein, a Baghdad bookseller, just bought a fully automatic assault rifle and has been teaching his wife how to shoot.

More Iraqis than ever have been buying, carrying and stockpiling weapons, adding an unnerving level of firepower to Baghdad's streets.

The American military has added to the arsenal also, by shipping in hundreds of thousands of firearms and millions of rounds of ammunition.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/03/world/middleeast/03guns.html?hp&ex=1144036800&en=91d59523b4e9fd73&ei=5094&partner=homepage

[Canuckistanian]

1. Okay, this does it.

"We collected most of the heavy weapons out there, but we should have collected all the light weapons," said Haider al-Abadi, an aide to the prime minister. "This is not good."

And where are all these guns coming from? That's right, the US military.

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2. Iraq is a right wingers dream come true

Everyone has a gun at all times.

Iraq proves the NRA creed that if everyone has a gun then no one would shoot each other and there would be peace and harmony.

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3. Oh boy, more good news from Iraq

The satisfying "click" as the cartridge slides into the chamber. The delightful "thwup" as the bullet pierces someone's thorax. Yep, that's some good news.