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GOP Senate Candidate: What Iran Needs Is More Guns

Posted by Jason Linkins, Huffington Post at 1:30 PM on June 22, 2009.


Marco Rubio: "I have a feeling the situation in Iran would be a little different if they had a 2nd amendment like ours."
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If you are not a regular user of Twitter, you might have some sort of "life," filled with "friends" and "activities," which offers you a sense of "meaning" and "solace" in these uncertain times. But at the same time, you would have almost certainly missed out on the wit and wisdom of Florida senatorial candidate Marco Rubio, who opined, thusly:

I have a feeling the situation in Iran would be a little different if they had a 2nd amendment like ours. #sayfie #tcot #nra

I'm nobody's idea of an anti-gun crusader. But when I consider the sorts of things the Iranians could stand to borrow from America, a poorly worded amendment dealing with gun ownership rights and militias is way down the list. I think that maybe Iran could stand to have some separation of powers, a line between church and state, a free press, freedom to worship, the right to assemble, the right to speak freely, a freedom from unlawful searches, due process of law, womens' suffrage, and a government that doesn't terrorize its citizens with armed thugs or threaten its neighbors through terrorist proxies. In short, there's all kinds of stuff I'd commend to Iran from our own body of work. But, yeah, after all that, some guns maybe.
I will, however, commend Rubio's good judgment in that he did not include "#iranelection" or "#neda" on this tweet. This idea probably would not have gone over well with the people following either hashtag.
Anyway, it's symbolic of how much has changed that a conservative now thinks Iran could use more readily available weaponry.

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Jason Linkins is an associate editor at the Huffington Post, based in Washington, DC.


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Women do have the vote.
Posted by: Jennie on Jun 22, 2009 2:36 PM   
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Iranian women can vote - even if they have to cover their heads to do so.

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Iraqis had guns
Posted by: astockton on Jun 23, 2009 8:04 AM   
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Saddam Hussein had no problem with his subjects owning guns; before the U.S. invasion, most households had one. An armed populace didn't stop Saddam from becoming a bloodthirsty tyrant.

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» RE: Iraqis had guns Posted by: uncleeddie
Yeah, Mr. Rubio...
Posted by: Quannah on Jun 23, 2009 9:23 AM   
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Iran needs to have more guns. There just wasn't quite enough bloodshed and death in those nonviolent protests for you, huh?

Disgusting. I hope the people of Florida have the good sense NOT to send Mr. Rubio to the United States Senate next year. We already have quite enough of his ilk there.

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God help us
Posted by: hilaryuk on Jun 23, 2009 10:50 AM   
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This is definitly one to be highlighted on my list of things about America that I have trouble believing. As a matter of interest, does this moron with political power believe that the citizens of dictatorships like "moderate" Saudi Arabia and Egypt should have a few more guns?

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» RE: God help us Posted by: uncleeddie
IT'S ODDLY REASSURING ...
Posted by: on Jun 23, 2009 11:58 AM   
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... that whenever these Morons open their large mouths, to share their brilliant "ideas," out flows absurdities. That's, of course, if their mouths are not blocked by a gun barrel. Still, I find them incredibly dense & scary. Both. Plus, Florida has enough problems without this yo-yo "in office."

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Suggestion for Marco,,
Posted by: Aquinas on Jun 23, 2009 12:34 PM   
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Why don't you take your juvenile, inexperienced ass over to Iran and carry those guns you want them to own? Be sure to wear your "I am a hated American" sign so they can put you out of your misery before you can infect the world with any more of your insanity. Shouldn't you still be in school? Does your mommy know what you're doing?

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Is Marco Rubio really a home-grown
Posted by: Aquinas on Jun 23, 2009 12:43 PM   
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-conservative or just another of Cuba's dregs who cowardly ran from his homeland to infect Florida's population with loudmouth reactionaries who have more gas than the Hidenburg? This clown doesn't look old enough drive. He's probably the offspring of the Cuban cowards who "migrated" to the USA so they could keep their ill gotten money and have a safe place from which to "verbally" assault Castro.

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Hey Jason,
Posted by: Aquinas on Jun 23, 2009 12:46 PM   
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WTF is a #neda or a hastag? If you're going to use a brand new set of terms, at least be mindful that not everyone can follow your meaning.

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» RE: Hey Jason, Posted by: Aquinas
Horses for courses
Posted by: Julian on Jun 23, 2009 7:37 PM   
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Without guns, the Americans would not have been able to get rid of the British overlords. That experience was the impetus for the Second Amendment. However there have been at least two fake elections in the USA in recent years and a dramatic lurch into a police state, and all the guns in the nation made not a jot of difference. They haven't blocked one act of bullying by the securocrats that the new laws, underpinned by the 9/11 operation, have spawned. It's horses for courses, and what was useful in foreign-ruled America in 1776 would not transfer to religion-ruled Iran. To have a hope of getting rid of the antidemocratic power structure there (and to some extent in America), resistance needs to confront the core ideology that underpins it. Guns won't do that.

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» RE: Horses for courses Posted by: uncleeddie