Do the Iraqis have more guns per capita than the US ?

[kentuck]

If so, why were they so helpless that they needed us to come in and save them from the dictator? On top of that, this was a dictator that walked out in the public, unlike some we know. Why didn't some nut like Lee Harvey Oswald take him out with a scope from a nearby window? If he was so hated, wouldn't someone have thought of that?

Also, if Saddam could get away with everything he did and with all the guns in the hands of gunowners, and they still were unable to do anything about it, how difficult would it be for the same thing to happen here in America? Just how potent would the NRA gun owners be if we had a police force similar to Saddam's? Are they living in an unreal world?

[MrBenchley]

1. In a word...

Yeah, pretty much every household in Iraq had a gun....

"Also, if Saddam could get away with everything he did and with all the guns in the hands of gunowners, and they still were unable to do anything about it, how difficult would it be for the same thing to happen here in America?"
Hell, the NRA and their like helped put this unelected drunk in the office he didn't win....and they can hardly wait for their fuehrer to tell them it's all right to shoot liberals....

You will notice for all the screaming by gun fetishists about how much they love freedom, it's all lip service...

South Carolina is lousy with right wing gun loving screwlooses always bellowing about how much they supposedly love freedom, but when the students at Stratford High School there were terrorized in a drug raid they didn't make even a faint peep. The students are suing, and again, there's no support fron the blowhards waving their guns and boasting about their love of freedom....
Who IS supporting this lawsuit? Why, anti-gun Jesse Jackson. Go figure.

Texas, too is thick with gun totin' blockheads who love them that freedom. Which state was arguing in the Supreme Court last week that it had the right to let prosecutors and witnesses lie in court during capital murder trials, and that it was the responsibility of the defense to uncover the lie? If you said Texas, you'd be right. And what did the Texas freedom-loving gun nuts say about that? Not a thing...they were too busy fretting somebody might keep them from buying assault weapons.

[alcuno]

2. Someone said recently that

Iraq used to be a government with a gigantic arms depot. Now it's a gigantic arms depot with no government to speak of.

[EDT]

3. He had food tasters, and body doubles-

I think he was pretty paranoid about getting knocked off. Even if he had a "chosen" crowd around him for press footage- as you say, someone could have shot him from a building 200 yards away.

My only thought is that I feel alot better about living in a country where my government still trusts me enough to let me own a gun, than one that assumes that their people are too much of a danger to them if armed.

[Ksec]

4. I agree Kentuck

All these guns and they couldnt take him out? Bullshlt.

The Iraqis resent us for doing what they know they should have done. They feel emasculated. This war has caused a whole bunch of bad feelings.