BELLEVUE, WA – Civil unrest in Iran has resulted in the arrest of “an unspecified number of people,” according to Reuters, some of whom were allegedly building homemade pistols, underscoring what the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms calls a classic example of oppressed people using their skills to fight back against a tyrannical regime.
Several people have reportedly been killed in the unrest, according to various news agencies, and Ayatollah Khamenei allegedly already has a plan to “flee the country” and seek refuge in Moscow if his security forces are unable to suppress the protests.
“The strife now reported in Iran has probably been inevitable,” CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb observed, “as that nation’s economy is in trouble, Iran’s nuclear development was smashed last year, and the Khamenei regime has essentially turned the country into a dictatorship. People who want to be free will always find ways to fight back, even if it means manufacturing their own guns to get the job done. We have seen this throughout history.
“Tyrannical governments invariably act to disarm their populations,” he said, “which enables them to maintain a chokehold on power. Thankfully, here in the U.S., we have the Second Amendment to prevent that.
“The alarming reports of people being killed,” Gottlieb continued, “by forces made up of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, police, the army and at least one militia group, underscore the dire situation. Under such circumstances, it is no wonder that pro-democracy Iranians fighting back against the Ayatollah’s goons would arm themselves any way possible, even with homemade guns.”
There have been reports of at least ten demonstrators being killed, and one human rights group said demonstrations have occurred in more than a hundred places in 22 of Iran’s 31 provinces. One report said some 30 people had been shot in a single incident. Under such circumstances, eventually people will fight back.
“Remember,” Gottlieb observed, “how our forefathers, many armed with rifles and pistols built by village gunsmiths, fought back against tyranny, against taxation without representation, and against the most powerful army and navy in the world 250 years ago. There is no Second Amendment in the Middle East, but there obviously is a will to be free. It’s the difference between individualism and what some people call ‘collectivism,’ which is another way of describing a dictatorship.”