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Over the weekend, reported U.S. military strikes in Iran removed top leaders within the country’s ruling regime. Opening what some observers see as a rare window for political upheaval.
The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) says one thing stands in the way of real change: the Iranian people are disarmed.
In a statement released March 2, CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb argued that the unfolding situation in Iran highlights what happens when citizens lack the equivalent of America’s Second Amendment.
“Iran does not have an equivalent of our sacred Second Amendment,” Gottlieb said. “Right now, the Iranian people need it bad.”
According to Gottlieb, without access to arms, the millions of Iranians hoping to overthrow what he described as a “murderous, authoritarian dictatorship” face an uphill battle. He contends that an armed citizenry levels the playing field between civilians and tyrants. Something he says America’s Founders understood 250 years ago when drafting the Bill of Rights.
CCRKBA pointed to reports from earlier this year that several Iranians were arrested for manufacturing firearms, suggesting that segments of the population were preparing for armed resistance. Now, with potential instability at the top of the regime, Gottlieb argues the lack of widespread civilian arms leaves protesters vulnerable.
“The symbol of freedom in a nation of slaves is the gun,” Gottlieb stated, adding that without the means to resist forcefully, demonstrations often end in “little more than body counts.”
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So he's flat out telling us that we're in a war with Iran because Israel forced our hand. This is basically the worst possible thing he could have said. https://t.co/68cs255Zoj
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) March 2, 2026
Iran has faced repeated waves of protests over the past several years, many of them met with violent crackdowns. The regime has also been accused of exporting terrorism, suppressing dissent, and aggressively pursuing nuclear capabilities. All factors that, according to CCRKBA, underscore the dangers of centralized, unchecked power.
The organization framed the current unrest as a real-world example of why the Second Amendment remains foundational in the United States. While Americans often debate gun policy in the abstract, CCRKBA says events overseas serve as a reminder of what constitutional protections are designed to prevent.
Whether the power vacuum in Iran results in meaningful change remains uncertain. But CCRKBA’s position is clear: without an armed populace, the odds of toppling tyranny shrink dramatically.
For Second Amendment advocates, the message is familiar: rights aren’t theoretical. They matter most when government power turns oppressive.
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/////Your reading comprehension is rather low, I did address the issue so once again I will spell it out for you only this time in more detail. Here in the U,S. Terrorists can buy all the second hand guns and firepower they need on the used gun market because most States “do not” vet secondhand gun purchases. It’s that simple.///// Your reply
My comprehension is fine. You did not address the issue of terrorists getting weapons in foreign countries, unless you believe the US is a foreign country. Hard to think that would confuse you as we live in the US.
Then you did finally attempt to address it, rather weakly. You point out to when terrorists were caught, but there were still terrorists’ actions that occurred. And yes, no set of restrictions are perfect, because when someone wants something, they will find a way to get it. That is my point. No law, no amount of vetting will change that simple fact.
To the contrasts you present, there is no evidence those would have been successful, what did not happen cannot be presented as evidence.
When you use Countries of a different cultural upbringing, that has existed for centuries, you are not making a parallel argument of laws. Japan is much more submissive than Americans are culturally, one of the reasons groups like the TRIAD and Yukuza are successful. It is evident you personally would be hard pressed to limit your opinions in Japan where certain things are considered rude, but you were raised in America were even the rudest expressions are allowed.
You can attempt to vet everyone to purchase a firearm, but that does not, has not, and never will vet out the crazies. Just because you present as sane today, tomorrow may be different. And who decides who is and is not crazy?
The other issue is that Americans used to believe in innocent until proven guilty, yet to practice a Constitutional right requires proving innocence? Do we extend that same thinking to the rest of our rights? That doesn’t follow the spirit of a free society or a Constitutional Republic.
In this age of where many believe fascists are in control, that they would be sending people to cattle cars, the same people making those proclamations are the same ones demanding gun control, why is that? The gun control they would want only leaves the fascists armed against them. How do you fight armed fascists while unarmed?
“So he’s flat out telling us that we’re in a war with Iran because Israel forced our hand. This is basically the worst possible thing he could have said.”-Matt Walsh
A lie would be the “worst possible thing” that Rubio could have told the American public. Many Americans will not forsake the crew of the USS Liberty and how the US Navy was betrayed.
quote—————Whether the power vacuum in Iran results in meaningful change remains uncertain. But CCRKBA’s position is clear: without an armed populace, the odds of toppling tyranny shrink dramatically.———–quote
A rather erroneous and totally misleading statement.
An armed populace without the backing of a host nation stands no chance against the Nations Military period. The so called citizen soldier rising up against the government and winning is and has been a myth including during the American Revolution. Without the backing of France with its professional Army and Navy and up to date weapons who were supporting and funding the American Revolution with millions of French money the incompetent and poorly equipped George Washington would have been easily defeated. In fact George was so incompetent even with French financing and planning he almost got captured twice showing what an incompetent Moron he really was. Thomas Paine who Washington stabbed in the back and tried to have killed told of many of the laurels Georgie claimed belonged to him were total bold face lies.
The so called American Patriot ( which was only 1/3 of the population) and equipped with his rifle and few pounds of powder and shot was no match for a profession army that had all the firepower it could possible want or use or need. The American History books on the High School level are so full of shit that they are about as worthless as used toilet paper in regards to the real History of the American Revolution. Its only at the University Level that the shocking truth is revealed as to what really happened.
An uprising in Iran will only be successful if backed by the U.S. and funded by the U.S. and equipped with arms by the U.S. A few Iranian citizens armed with stolen AK 47’s would be wiped out in short order acting on their own. And so would U.S. Citizens rising up against their government today in modern times. They would not stand a chance. Try shooting down a Jet plane or helicopter gun ship with an M16 and only a few rounds of ammunition, it would be a pathetic joke.
i’m sure any fall out here will consist of terrorists hitting gun free zones!
In reality our lack of any really tough gun laws will let terrorists get all the arms and ammo they want. The solution is not all out war in the streets by untrained people and people who have to go to work every day but the solution is keeping military grade weapons out of the hands of lunatics and terrorists and that is only accomplished with tough gun laws like the 1934 NFA which currently does not vet semi-auto rifles, only full auto weapons.
As a matter of fact the Lunatics at the NRA are trying to get the NFA repealed altogether. Yeah right let’s start selling machine guns and silencers over the counter to anyone who wants one with no vetting as if our current situation with rivers of blood in our High Schools is already not bad enough.
maybe regulating immigrants and tranny’s would produce better results.
Spot on about illegal immigrants but as far as tyrannies are concerned, I will defer to dacian since that SN is an expert on the topic.
Congrats are local rabid Racist Stormtrooper Herr Paul never misses a chance to displace his jackbooted mentality. Hitler would have smiled and said you were his most loyal follower.
In fact you Moron Immigrants both legal and illegal commit far lower crime than the indigenous people do. You see genius boy most immigrants who are illegal know they have to keep a low profile and not commit crime, especially now that we have a maniac Herr Drumpf in power who is even trying to deport 5 year old kindergarten children wearing fuzzy rabbit hats (who was legal by the way). I bet his Stormtrooper Jackbooted ICE Goons (The Pigs) claimed a great battle won when they snatched the 5 year old and tried using him as bate against his own parents. Hitler would have been overjoyed at such tactics with Herr Paul cheering while peeping out of his storm sewer with the rest of his racist rats.
And Herr Paul, like a good little Nazi you hate all Gays and Trans people as well. So did Hitler and his Nazi’s. Show me the difference between modern day Nazi’s like you and Hitler’s Goons. In fact there is no difference.
you labeled us
you have deemed us unsuitable for your utopia
you are attempting to round us up for the betterment of the society
whats next?
An automatic weapon is no more dangerous than a semiautomatic weapon. Neither can act in its own. The danger is the person. Europe sells silencers without the same requirements we have and they don’t have those issues your kind claims will happen. here.
No matter how tough gun laws are in any Country, terrorists get the weapons they need. The terrorists angle is not the gotcha you believe it to be.
Do you have any idea what military grade means? Your use of the term is not correct.
quote———————-An automatic weapon is no more dangerous than a semiautomatic weapon. Neither can act in its own. The danger is the person. Europe sells silencers without the same requirements we have and they don’t have those issues your kind claims will happen. here———quote
Hey Sledge Hammer Head are you so dense you do not even realize that without a weapon a silencer is as useless as tits on a bull? Europeans have tough vetting gun laws and that is why they have way less homicides, child deaths, and mass murders. History has proven you wrong decades ago. Where have you been living all these decades, under a rock????
And by the way genius boy Europe is still awash in private firearms ownership, once again proving your rantings and Right Wing paranoia about registration is as accurate as a Quackenbush rifle with a bent barrel or a WWII Liberator pistol. Assuming you even know what those weapons were.
Try again you fell head first into the outhouse on that ludicrous diatribe.
And by the way Stephen Paddock could never have fired off all those rounds in that short of time killing and wounding 413 people with a semi-auto rifle as fast as he did with his converted rifles that had bump stocks on them, effectively turning them into full auto assault rifles.
quote——————–Do you have any idea what military grade means? Your use of the term is not correct.———–quote
“Military grade” (alternatively “military-grade” or “mil-spec”) is a buzzword commonly used in marketing and advertising for consumer goods. It is generally used to describe an item or product that satisfies a United States Military Standard,usually MIL-STD-810 for stress testing; however, it is often used as a marketing ploy to describe a product that satisfies any military standard regardless of what it is (if a standard is satisfied at all to begin with), or one that simply uses materials that are also used in military technology ranging from Kevlar to aluminum.
In marketing, “military grade” is meant to symbolize and evoke higher-than-usual levels of toughness, durability, efficiency, and quality, as well as the implication that the product was tested and “approved” by some (non-existent) overseeing body or is regularly used and trusted by militaries—even if none of those are true. Products often marketed as “military grade” include phone cases, flashlights, electronics, eyewear, and clothing.
Use of the term in marketing has been criticized by actual military personnel and veterans, who note that items that are indeed “military grade”—as in actually issued by militaries to their personnel—are often procured for “cost-effectiveness” and “may not” always be of the highest quality and reliability. However, a product’s use of the term should not be inferred as a sign it is unreliable, as some items using the term may in fact be using it genuinely (e.g. are in fact used by the military, or are identical to military equivalents)
I might say in closing that the Far Right’s erroneous beliefs that if its a true Military Spec it has to be the best there is which is a joke as I have seen some military weapons like the M1 carbine civilian version made of higher quality material and better workmanship and especially “better accuracy” than the original military weapons of which the parts even interchanged with the original military models. I could also mention the Late WWII “Last Ditch” Japanese Arisaka Rifles or some of the German “Volksgewehr rifles” made in the closing days of WWII or perhaps the cream of the crop the U.S. made Liberator Pistols, now those were real jems (sarcasm). And remember they were made to Military Spec LMAO.
As my Mathematics Professor once said “The word Accuracy often has as many definitions as there are people who use the word” and I might also add this includes the word “Mil Spec”.
Try again Hammerhead you fell right into that one because the subject was way over your head.
Nice copy and paste. I see you were uncertain and had to copy a source for the information. Your own words would have been suffice. But you did your best.
Nothing about how terrorists in your reply?
I see you prefer to use personal attacks instead of calmly debating your position. Educated people don’t debate in that manner. That is more the tactic of someone who has little self control and education. Do you expect to be taken as a serious person?
quote—————Nothing about how terrorists in your reply?———quote
Your reading comprehension is rather low, I did address the issue so once again I will spell it out for you only this time in more detail. Here in the U,S. Terrorists can buy all the second hand guns and firepower they need on the used gun market because most States “do not” vet secondhand gun purchases. It’s that simple.
To contrast. A year or so ago a German Nut case wanted to kill Jews but he could not get a permit to buy a firearm of any kind so he was forced to make a single shot zip gun that as expected malfunctioned. The Police arrived very quickly and arrested the Nut Case. In the U.S. the Nut Case would have bought all the firepower he wanted and killed everyone in the Synagogue.
Another dramatic case. Several years ago Terrorists in Britain (The London Bridge Incident) wanted to massacre people but they could not get permits to even buy shotguns so they resorted to knives and attacked a British Pub. The Pub Patrons beat the shit out of the Terrorist’s with broken beer bottles and chairs. In the U.S. the Terrorists would have killed everyone in the Pub.
Once again tough gun laws do indeed work. And I might add you can indeed buy firearms in both Germany and yes even in the UK but you cannot walk into the nearest Pub or go to the local flea market and then buy all the firepower you want,
Did you know that in Japan (that has registration) you can still buy an FN Browning BAR semi-auto sporting rifle as well as a semi-auto shotgun. Now why do they not have mass murders in Japan with firearms?????? Without typing up another page full of information it all boils down to “tough gun laws” that vet out nut cases, criminals, and terrorists.
No gun laws are perfect around the world but “our system is not working” that is quite evident.