No, not in America, but in Iraq:

Ordinary Iraqis rarely strike back at the insurgents who terrorize their country. But just before noon today, a carpenter named Dhia saw a troop of masked gunmen with grenades coming towards his shop and decided he had had enough.

As the gunmen emerged from their cars, Dhia and his young relatives shouldered their own AK-47’s and opened fire, police and witnesses said. In the fierce gun battle that followed, three of the insurgents were killed, and the rest fled just after the police arrived. Two of Dhia’s young nephews and a bystander were injured, the police said.

And they used real assault weapons, not the ones that look like assault weapons that people are trying to get banned here in the states. This may mark one of the few times the MSM correctly used the term AK-47, as well.

Kudos to them for running the story.

The article rightly states that this indicates that the Iraqis are willing to stand up to attacks from terrorists. First democracy then standing up to tyranny? That combination, of course, is aided by arms in the hands of the people.

Posted in uncategorized on March 23rd, 2005 by SayUncle | RSS 2.0 |