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AWB (Assault Weapons Ban)
Various city-wide handgun/firearm bans
They are quite common in the US - to ban all firearms in particular areas.
You can argue as you like about the importance of one civil liberty over another, but the fact is, if guns are taken away, then it proves that other things can be taken, and vice versa. The removal of one liberty doesn't mean any less if it's taken away - guns or privacy.
And my point about Iraq is that since they have a strong saturation of guns, it does make it easier for insurgents to fight. The same would go for any other country.
Let me ask you this: If Bush would have continued to erode rights, how would you plan on fighting him and the government? Write them? Start a hunger strike? It's not like dictators really get dissuaded from such things. Look at Iran. You think that, for all their rioting, it has done any good? The military and police have been able to jail and rape whomever they wish because they know the populace won't fight them.
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
