Iran and the Right to Keep and Bear Arms

The United States is unique in that it not only recognizes the right to keep and bear arms and vows to preserve it, via our Second Amendment, but that it also does a much better job of protecting that right than literally anywhere else.

Mexico, for example, has something about protecting the right to keep and bear arms in its constitution, but it has never actually protected it in the least.

Most other countries don’t even acknowledge it.

I can’t help but think about that fact when we look at Iran right now.

Yes, we’re bombing the snot out of them. We’ve hit them so hard that one Ayatollah only had the job for a couple of hours before he was killed. We’re hammering them hard.

This comes after tens of thousands of peaceful protestors were murdered by the government. The official numbers fluctuate, but I’ve heard reports of between 40,000 and 60,000, depending on who you ask.

Even the low end of that is unacceptable.

But the Iranian regime never really cared if it was acceptable or not. After all, who was going to do anything about it?

We’re not bombing Iran because of it, after all.

However, I can’t help but wonder what it would look like right now if all of those who crave freedom and democratic reforms were armed to the teeth. First, there wouldn’t have been that great of a death toll in the first place. We’ve got leftists here who are ready to start a war with the federal government over two shootings by ICE agents, both of which are being investigated, and one of which was clearly self-defense to anyone whose brain isn’t rotted. The second is a bit more ambiguous, and I hope we’ll find out what was going on in those agents’ heads.

Regardless, that’s just two people who were actually trying to interfere with law enforcement operations that weren’t even about American citizens.

How would protestors in Iran have reacted to the slaughter of their buddies by Iranian authorities if they’d had guns of their own?

I mean, I’m sure most of those we’ve targeted would be just as dead, but we wouldn’t have had to muddy our hands in the process.

Moreover, it’s entirely likely this regime would have been toppled decades ago, because the moment that your effort that claims to be about human rights and a better life for Iranians than under the Shah, starts to brutally repress the people, it would be time to water the Tree of Persian Liberty, you know?

Everywhere you go, gun control facilitates all other forms of totalitarianism. Controlling who can have what and what kind of guns are permissible, usually to a point that anything which could be useful for fighting back against oppression is banned, is essential to preventing those people from overthrowing anyone.

Protestors can be gunned down, as Iran well knows, with little risk.

But armed fighters are a bit more of a challenge, as pro-Iranian protestors in Pakistan found out after they tried to create Benghazi 2: Electric Boogaloo and got popped by the United States Marines for their trouble.

The right to keep and bear arms isn’t an American right. It’s a human right, and if we are going to pretend that freedom matters, it’s well past time that we insist on other nations respecting that right.

If Iranians had guns, we wouldn’t be blowing stuff up.

They’d have already had everything taken care of weeks ago, the nuclear threat from Iran would be over, and terrorists throughout the world would be shopping for a new sugar daddy.

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