Togo youths: 'Send us guns'

[Columbia]

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/02/16/togo.bitter.youth.ap/index.html

Togo youths: 'Send us guns'

Wednesday, February 16, 2005 Posted: 4:14 PM EST (2114 GMT)



LOME, Togo (AP) -- Armed with sticks and stones and hard-bitten desperation, Togo's opposition movement waged a 38-year losing battle against the oppressive military regime of President Gnassingbe Eyadema.

After Eyadema's February 5 death was followed by the abrupt appointment by the army of his son Faure Gnassingbe, Togo's new generation of protesters is dismissing people-power, grass-roots solidarity and all that.

They want guns, and lots of them.

Restless, jobless and short on patience, the youth of Togo's beach-front capital say weaponry is the only way to bring down the Gnassingbe military dynasty, which has made fear and intimidation a bedrock of Togolese society.

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[Kerrytravelers]

1. Well, we have a huge deficit and a lot of guns here, so perhaps * would

like to make a deal. It is the Republican tradition set by Reagan himself.

Maybe we could bring them freedom and liberty... oh, wait, my bad, they don't have oil. Oh well, nevermind, back to plan A. I have a nice AK 47... interested?

[skippythwndrdog]

2. I would donate a couple of SKS rifles.

I wish there was a way to do it.

[MyMouth]

3. Don't they know that guns are bad?

What, do they want a higher crime rate? More suicides? Blood running in the streets?

It'll be best in the long term to keep guns out of the hands of untrained civilians and only allow the proper authorities to be armed.

After all, from the looks of that picture, <gasp> MINORITIES would be arming themselves. If gun control, which has its roots in keeping minorities unarmed, works here in the USA, I'm sure it will work just as well elsewhere.