Quote of the Day
Iranian civilians certainly have a legitimate need to arm themselves. It is difficult to understand the horrors they face under the current Islamic regime. They can be arrested, jailed and tortured on mere suspicion. Their security forces can shoot them dead on the street for no reason without any fear of a legal response.
While a $440 Turkish-made Colt .45 doesn’t provide the firepower required to save its owner from dozens of Iranian security forces armed with AKs, at least it offers the owner the ability to take a few with them.
Lee Williams
March 5, 2026
Gun control in Iran was failing even before our first strike – Second Amendment Foundation
Imagine a world in which the Iranian people had all the firearms they wanted before the 1979 revolution. Even if the Shah had not seen the light and implemented needed reforms before the citizens took up arms to persuade him, having arms after the revolution would have enabled “second thoughts” on the nature of the revolution.
And, of course, having them now would make the removal of the current leadership much easier.
Sure, as pointed out by Williams, the black market is supplying a few arms to the oppressed citizens. But having plentiful ammo and especially open training and practice opportunities is vital to having the skills to confidently put those tools to work.
It is not a failure. It accomplished its purpose. The purpose is to make citizen vulnerable to predators.
What I doubt is the desire of the people to rise up and take control of their own destiny. If I could magically put an AKM in every home in Tehran would things be different? I doubt it.
It’s not the weapon, it the will to use it.
Spot on. Thanks.
That’s exactly why marxism went after the business and culture of guns, as much as banning them. As Joe spoke of.
And to prove your statement is easy. Waco for one. And how many people get gunned down in America by the police for no reason? Or for their politics?
All this in the most heavily armed, freedom driven society on earth.
If we aren’t willing to use them, they mean nothing.
“Imagine a world in which the Iranian people had all the firearms they wanted before the 1979 revolution. Even if the Shah had not seen the light and implemented needed reforms before the citizens took up arms to persuade him, having arms after the revolution would have enabled “second thoughts” on the nature of the revolution.”
Not sure, as the Shah was dealing with is-lame. His heavy-handed tactics against his own population gave the jahdi’s the wedge they needed.
Think of it like the king of England coming back and starting a war on Christianity here in the US. Even if our country was only a third Christian, but armed.
That would made it impossible to control.
Iran has been messing with us since ’79. Terrorist wise. Our CIA has been messing with them directly for much longer. And a lot harder. The proxy war of us suppling Saddam to go after Iran for 8 years didn’t help any. Iranians lost a lot of family members in that war. I doubt seriously they have forgot it. (Getting mustard gassed has a way of being truly memorable.)
And all this started with science telling everyone that crude oil was a finite resource. Therefor it must be controlled.
And evil men setting about to do just that.
This will not end well.
Has it ever?
LOL! America is the most heavily armed country on the planet with more privately held firearms than people….yet WE AREN’T FREE. Guns don’t equal freedom. They can be a factor but without cojones freedom isn’t even an idea.
They’re just a tool.
If you don’t know how to use them properly and with skill they’re not much good to you.
If you lack the willingness to use them when needed they’re useless.
If you lack the judgement to know when and when not to use them they’re as much a danger to you as to anyone else.
“yet WE AREN’T FREE.”
Compared to……?
Don’t get me wrong – I recognize much that is wrong in this country. But “do not let perfection be the enemy of the good” as the old saying goes.
The least bad approximation of something is still the least bad. Perfect freedom is impossible.
Striving to be BETTER, and knowing that you have room to do so, that you have not yet achieved perfection, is a good thing, but giving no credit for the good is still problematic for many reasons. We have VERY MUCH freedom… even we should have more.
Exactly right.
I’m an immigrant from Holland, a “liberal democracy”. I like my liberty here a whole lot better than what passes for liberty in Holland. Is it perfect? No, just as you said. But is it better than the alternative in pretty much every other country of the world? Absolutely.
And last but not least, we here are in a better position to keep it that way and improve on it, compared to people in other countries — not just dictatorships like Iran, but “democracies” like Holland and Germany.