Shock and Awe or Guns a Plenty?

  With the 10th anniversary of Shock and Awe, I find myself thinking of why guns a plenty is not the way to arm a nation against tyranny.

   I do not say a number of people shouldn't buy guns as insurance against the chance government might take a turn for the worse and go dictatorship on us, though I worry less about that happening than others might.

   I simply say, putting guns in the hands of everyone can do more harm than good. Let's suppose this had been the way we had went about warring in Iraq. Let's suppose, instead of Shock and Awe, we had commenced the war by buying guns and weapons (tanks and missiles, too) and then given them to all the Iraqi people.

   Thus, they would all be armed against tyranny.

   Trouble is, Saddam Hussein's people, or Al-Qaeda would have been there to quickly snap up the offering. For them, it would have been like picking fruit off the vine.

   So it is with us. We run out and get guns, in the name of the Second Amendment, and then we have 600,000 guns stolen each year. Wonder why. And, a good portion of our violent crimes are committed with stolen weapons. Can we not see we create a danger?