Guns & Iran
“Anyone in Iran who voices a tune that aligns with the enemy has joined Tel Aviv and Netanyahu, and a shoot-to-kill order has been issued for them.” This was the instruction of Salar Abnoush, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (Iran’s IRGC), several days ago. It was the most public of their many announcements to protesters, nationally.
The IRGC is a vastly staffed militia, founded officially by the unspeakable Ayatollah Khomeini, within the Iranian Revolution of 1979, though informally during the Muslim riots he inspired and directed during the previous year. The IRGC and its many affiliates do things like raping then shooting young women who are found not to be dressed in the proper Islamic manner (in a dark sack), and men and women alike for a variety of other “fashion crimes.”
Iran is gun-free, except for those uniformed (minus some underdressed terrorists) and in the employment of the theocratic state. It would thus serve as a model for liberal and progressive policy in the West, for the great majority of innocent civilians are entirely disarmed. Should they decide to take action, the authorities may of course do with and to these defenceless whatever they wish. This is why the mediaeval right to bear arms was included in the United States Constitution, for civilized men do not leave a people without means to defend themselves.
My chief worry is that Trump and Netanyahu will not go far enough in their intervention on behalf of the Iranian people, and will announce a victory prematurely, before the Islamo-fascists have been entirely exterminated. There are, or were, many more than a million armed servants of the Revolutionary regime, and short of death, the unconditional surrender of every one of them is necessary.
If they haven’t the brash masculinity to do that, Americans and Israelis must make provision for the arming of the general Iranian population. Perhaps the mass parachuting of small arms into all neighbourhoods throughout Persia would be an alternative solution; rather than walking away, as the American government has done too many times in the past. For we mustn’t ban guns until we have obviated human evil, and only God can do that.