C'mon Pongo. You've always been one of the more intelligent and well grounded posters in the O-Club. What the heck happened.
There's no discussing the link you posted because it isn't true.
Shall we discuss the abberant sex habits of Canadians if I can find an article somewhere that says every single male Canadian keeps a Vietnamese pot-bellied pig in a dog crate in his bedroom for use as a nightly sex slave?
BS is BS and your "source" was pure BS. There's no discussing that rationally.
The facts are that Iraq has just been militarily vanquished, there is an occupying army in place that has to provide security for it's own troops as well as the local populace. After WW2, the allied powers didn't allow the common citizens of the occupied countries to roam around openly with smg's and panzerfausts.
Further, the citizenry HAS been allowed to keep fully automatic weapons like AK-47's in their possession. They've just been told to keep them at home. Think on this.. occupying army, citizenry walking around in bands with AK's after Saddam Fedayeen dressed in civilian clothes have recently been in combat with Coalition troops.
Surely you can see the reason to keep the guns at home.
And, overall, the point is THEY STILL HAVE THEIR AK'S!
Even in the US, you can't have fully auto weapons without special background checks and investigations.
So what is there to discuss here? They have more rights than we do under the 2nd.
