[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Guns & the Bill of Rights

[Jennifer Boggess Ramon]

At 6:07 PM +0000 8/4/03, Steve wrote:
>
>  ...Afghanistan. No, they had
>none of these rights.

Er, actually, Afghanistan had (at least in the early '90s) a guns per 
capita ratio second only to the US itself.  Their right to keep and 
bear arms - at least for males - may not have been constitutionally 
protected, but neither was it infringed.  That's one of the reasons 
it was considered a good place to train jihad fighters.

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