After winning their freedom, Libyan rebels urged to turn in their weapons.

[Atypical Liberal]

Via reddit:

http://www.reddit.com/r/guns/comments/k189x/libyans_arm_themselves_and_win_freedom_from/

I love the top comment:

"I heard that segment this morning, sighed, and facepalmed.

"Oh, yeah, you can totally trust us, dude; we're never going to become a corrupt tyrannical regime like the last one. Yup. Totally. Uh, would you mind handing your weapons that you had to pry from the cold, dead hands of the regime back in, there's a good peasant.

"And we might let you have handguns as long as you have a signed permission slip from us. Maybe."

If the Libyans have any sense, there will be a lot of boating accidents in the coming weeks."

[rrneck]

1. If I'd just been through all that shit

I'd offer a comprise.

I'd offer them the bullets and tell them to get to work on a constitution.

[spin]

2. You can bet their new Constitution will not have a second amendment ...

similar to ours.

[We_Have_A_Problem]

3. It probably will....

...but written in modern language.

Ours was quite clear in the late 18th century. It took 150 years or so for someone to come along and figure out a way to obfuscate it.

[DissedByBush]

5. It didn't take 150 years

Courts were accepting limitations on the individual right to keep and bear arms in the 1800s.

The reasoning was that blacks weren't really people, so they didn't really have that right.

[We_Have_A_Problem]

6. Point taken...

I was more referring to the collectivist interpretation applied later, as well as the bastardization of the prefatory clause and the sheer manufacturing of the concept that it somehow restricted the people, not the government.

[Atypical Liberal]

4. The people who set them up in power to secure access to oil...

The people who aided the rebels to set them up in power will not tolerate a populace able to resist the plunder of their oil.

[spin]

7. The rich and the big corporations love disarmed serfs. (n/t)

[rrneck]

8. +About a zillion. nt

[SteveM]

13. I keep asking my fellow lefties this:

If the Far Right is so oppressive, so authoritarian, so bent on taking your rights away, why in hell are you still for gun-control?

[RSillsbee]

9. They're idiots if they do NT

[era veteran]

10. I would get a shovel and some cosmoline.

[Remmah2]

11. It's a nice dry climate.

Low probability of rust.

[Euromutt]

12. Don't rely too much on that

Just because it's generally dry doesn't mean there's no rainy season; that's how wadis come about. Still, the Algerians fighting the French in the late 1950s were using (among other things) MG34s left behind by the German Afrika Korps in 1943.