Iran: A Case Study in Where Disarmament Leads

Every few years, things flare up in Iran, and I get my hopes up. 

I’m old enough to remember the Iran hostage crisis. I was very young when that happened, and I didn’t remember all of the nuances from then, but it was something happening in the world, and I knew about it. A guy who owned a local record store had a family member who was a hostage, so it came up in conversation when the family would drop by his store.

So, when these uprisings flare up, I keep hoping the Islamic regime will end up being toppled, because Iran really is the biggest problem in the entire Middle East. If they go down, we have worldwide stability we haven’t seen since before World War I, most likely.

But unfortunately, this uprising may well go down like all of the others, and for one simple reason. They never had a Second Amendment.

With widespread civil unrest and protestors marching in the streets of many large cities in Iran, that country’s oppressive government is doing what oppressive governments do best—trying to make sure their “subjects” remain disarmed.

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 civil unrest in Iran, according to Reuters, has resulted in the arrest of “an unspecified number of people,” of whom were allegedly building homemade pistols.

And according to the gun-rights organizations Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA), the desire of Iranian citizens to have firearms to protect themselves is an important part of freedom.

“The strife now reported in Iran has probably been inevitable 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,” CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb said in a news release detailing the situation. “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.”

The difference problem Iranian freedom seekers have, however, is a near dictatorial governor, combined with no codified right to keep and bear arms.

Because they don’t have guns, an uprising of the populace doesn’t have nearly as much chance of accomplishing anything unless the military decides to side with them.

That’s not exactly something that happens all that often, so without the means to do more than protest in the streets, exactly nothing good will happen. As it stands, Iranian officials are planning on rounding up agitators and throwing them in prison, if they don’t just kill them outright. Kahemenei and his people will get away with it because no one can do anything about it other than foreign governments, most of which aren’t looking to get into a war.

Even if it would bring stability to the region.

When people don’t have the right to keep and bear arms, they have to put their trust in their own government that it won’t become tyrannical. That’s a silly hope, in my book, because the powerful always want more power, and while they might be satisfied with just a smidge more here and now, it’s only a matter of time until someone else comes in that wants far, far more of it.

In Iran, about 2,500 people have died, based on the last numbers I saw.

In the UK, people are imprisoned for saying things about immigrants that might be true, but are mean. 

In Germany, 60 Minutes was in on a raid of someone who posted a meme the government didn’t like.

In Australia, they’re responding to an Islamic terrorist attack by trying to sentence people to years in prison for “Islamophobia.”

Tyranny is always around the corner, and the only check you can have on it is the means to take down that tyrannical government. It’s the only threat you can have against them.

Iran is the endgame. It’s where any nation has the potential of ending up, even without the theocracy. Power doesn’t so much corrupt as be attractive to the corruptible. Those who can best wield power responsibly are those who have no interest in doing so, which means that without a bulwark against tyranny, what we’re seeing in Tehran is possible everywhere.

Editor’s Note: The radical left will stop at nothing to enact their radical gun control agenda and strip us of our Second Amendment rights.

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