I haven't seen this being diaried - perhaps it has been. My searches are often fruitless -
The interesting thing about this article is that it appears in the free newspaper that appeals to younger Chicagoans, even though it is an arm of a Chicago daily paper - The Chicago Red Streak. I did not see this in the Tribune this am.
Seems to me the Republicans are more than happy \ after all guns are involved.
Here's a bit of a peek after the jump:
The weekend deaths included two American soldiers -- one killed Sunday in a suicide bombing on the outskirts of Baghdad and another who died in combat north of Baghdad.
A string of attacks in the Iraqi capital on Sunday showed that extremists can still unleash strikes in the city despite a lull in violence here in recent weeks amid U.S. offensives.
In the absence of enough security forces, Shiite lawmaker Abbas al-Bayati said authorities should help residents ''arm themselves'' for their own protection.
The call for civilians to take up arms in their own defense was echoed Sunday by the country's Sunni Arab vice president, Tariq al-Hashemi, who said all Iraqis must ''pay the price'' for terrorism
May I backspace: "iraqis must pay the price for terrorism. Who is this man? Am I going mad? Seriously am I?
If you go to Chicago Red Streak and hit "every man for himself" on the right hand size, you can read the whole article.