Do the Iraqis Have the Right to Bear Arms?

From http://www.nationalexpositor.com/News/2433.html

Campaign for Liberty - Notice that the U.S. atrocity captured on video was carried out against people in Iraq on the basis that they had guns. Some apparently didn’t even have the weapons they were alleged to have, but consider the primary issue: People walking around in Iraq with weapons are fair game for killing by remote control.
Of course, the U.S. establishment claimed that it has “liberated” the Iraqi people. What kind of liberation is it if the Iraqis cannot even keep and bear arms—and they need it even more than Americans do, considering the chaotic violence unleashed by the war.
But here’s the truth: Although Saddam Hussein was a violent and repressive monster, one freedom he allowed many of his people was the right to bear arms. In Baghdad, personal gun ownership was common before the war. The media even reported gun sales increasing in anticipation of the U.S. invasion.
That all changed after the U.S. liberated the Iraqi people. The American military assisted the new U.S.-friendly regime in going door to door rounding up personal weapons in Baghdad. Along with the institution of an income tax over Iraq, the rise of Sharia Law, the ratification of a Soviet-style Constitution, the persecution of women, Christians and Jews that increased rapidly with the fall of Saddam, gun control is one of the many exports of “freedom” to Iraq, courtesy of the U.S. taxpayer.

Some might say that this disarmament of civilians was necessary for the functioning of the war—if so, this is another reason to question the war—but it has been seven years and those residing in Iraq are still living in fear of being blown away if they happen to be carrying a personal weapon. Gun rights are universal, and no military occupation can be “liberation” if it involves massive weapons confiscation aimed against the people supposedly being liberated. Also frightening is the fact that when martial law was imposed upon New Orleans in the wake of Katrina, U.S. military personnel back from Iraq were brought in to assist the local and state authorities, who themselves went door to door confiscating the weapons of peaceful Americans when they most needed them. The war on Iraq was always an act of gun control—an act to enforce UN resolutions regarding “weapons of mass destruction”—and we see to this day that it really is impossible to be free and safe when the government lording over you, whether foreign or domestic, cannot trust you with the human right to keep and bear arms.