This NY Times story (believe at your own risk) reports that allied authorities in Iraq are about to implement a ban on fully automatic rifles, along with other more destructive weapons. “Only Iraqis authorized to use military-type weapons because of their police or military duties will be exempt.” So Iraq will have a similar situation as exists in the United States, with the police having more firepower than the citizens they protect.
This makes perfect sense in postwar Iraq, on a temporary basis, but the real question is why do we have a virtually identical policy on automatic rifles in America, where civil disorder on the scale of that in Iraq hasn’t been seen since the civil war?
Automatic Rifles? Gee, that sounds scary -- what about the children?
Posted by: jk at May 21, 2003 11:39 AMChildren probably shouldn't have automatic rifles until they're 18.
Posted by: johngalt at May 21, 2003 10:48 PM