Most Iraqis Have Never Heard of Guns
By cc: every american pfc who cleared houses and caches in iraq for eight years http://t.co/j8PzBoO5fC pic.twitter.com/oE8EcYv8xF
— Adam Weinstein (@AdamWeinstein) April 30, 2015
Carson said that people in cities need guns to defend against Big Government gun confiscations and potential attacks, even going so far as to suggest that ISIS wouldn’t have made such advances in Iraq if there were more firearms in the country.
He also claimed that Thomas Hobbes, the philosopher and “Leviathan” author, knew that tyranny “would never occur in America because American citizens have guns and they won’t let it happen.” Hobbes, of course died in 1679, a century before the U.S. was established.
Sometimes I get nostalgic for the days in which America could send Heritage Foundation interns to create the financial system of a new country, and then I remember that I only need to wait until the next GOP administration…