"Yes, in the U.S. everyone has one of these for home defense."
Posted on 06/24/2004 7:35:15 AM PDT by SJackson
RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia will allow foreigners who feel threatened by the wave of militant violence in the kingdom to carry guns for their protection, Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz says.
"In principle a Saudi has the right to carry a weapon, if he has a permit. Likewise a foreign resident, if he felt in danger he could get a permit to carry a weapon," Nayef was quoted as saying by the official Saudi Press Agency on Thursday.
"I mean a personal weapon which a person can have in his own country," the prince said.
Al Qaeda supporters have waged a year-long campaign of violence targeting Westerners, government sites and oil workers in the kingdom, prompting some foreigners to flee the country which is the world's biggest oil exporter.
In one of the bloodiest attacks, militants masquerading as security men killed 22 civilians in a May shooting and hostage-taking spree in the oil city of Khobar.
On Friday, security forces shot dead al Qaeda's leader in Saudi Arabia, Abdulaziz al-Muqrin, hours after the beheading of U.S. hostage Paul Johnson.
But militants promised to continue their jihad (holy struggle) to drive foreigners from the birthplace of Islam and topple its royal rulers.
Saudi Arabia announced a limited one-month amnesty on Wednesday for the militants. Saudi sources said it was aimed at mid-ranking and junior al Qaeda supporters, not leaders with blood on their hands.
Great, I hope they get a few.
Guns, yes. Bibles, no.
*bang_list
Restricted to only one weapon? Not good enough.
Unfortunately the vulcan is too much weapon for most people to carry on their person.
Imagine that - I can get a carry permit in Saudi Arabia,
but not in southern California, USA.
The Saudi's won't be changing their ways, the current problem is that Saudi terror is meant to be exported, not consumed at home.
Personally, if I were a junior al Qaeda supporter I'd get myself somewhere relatively safe, like Iraq, if the Saudi's get serious internally things could get bloody.
"To the American mind, fighting for your life was an act not only allowed by their faith, but it was an act almost required in response to one who would murder you. To allow a bad person to simply murder you was akin to suicide as far as sins go. Just as it was believed that you would not go to Heaven if you committed suicide, to allow yourself to be murdered was considered near as the same. That meant that for the salvation of your soul, you must fight back under such circumstance. In Thorpe's classic book The Bowie Knife there is a story which I think help illustrate this point succinctly. He tells us of a preacher who marries a young couple and gives the husband a bible and a Bowie knife. He tells him that the bible is for the salvation of the family's souls, and the Bowie knife for their physical salvation (the defense of his wife)!"
http://www.alliancemartialarts.com/bowieknife1.htm
I guess a steel covered bible would be of some help...otherwise, I think a weapon makes a lot more sense.
Good, at least they'll have a fighting chance.
BTTT
That's more freedom than is allowed here. Residents in most states who are US citizens have that privilege (residents in only two states, VT and AK, have the right), but typically non-citizens are denied the privilege.
So what about countries like canada or england where guns are banned. Does that mean those people can't be armed. Or if A guy has a class III liscense to have a fully automatic m-16 will the saudis let him have it?
Although difficult for modern man to fathom, it was once widely believed that life was a gift from God, that to not defend that life when offered violence was to hold God's gift in contempt, to be a coward and to breach one's duty to one's community. A sermon given in Philadelphia in 1747 unequivocally equated the failure to defend oneself with suicide:
He that suffers his life to be taken from him by one that hath no authority for that purpose, when he might preserve it by defense, incurs the Guilt of self murder since God hath enjoined him to seek the continuance of his life, and Nature itself teaches every creature to defend itself.
- Jeffrey Snyder, "Nation of Cowards"
"Yes, in the U.S. everyone has one of these for home defense."
Only God can confer 'A Right'
The state can only confer privilige
The state is in a continual flux as it is made of men
God never changes and therefore neither do the rights He confers
The Saudi state says..foreigners can (may) carry guns...all they need to do is 'apply' for a permit and then get Saudi approval.....
As long as Mecca and Medina crank out the spritual rocket fuel for human guided RPGs and an unlimited supply Saudi petrol dollars pay for the exportation and equiping of terror and terrorists...as long as corrupt politicans and business men lobby for kid glove selective approach to terror and terrorists....
They will be at war with us... & unscrupulous men will always profit from such relationships....
imo
??OK
Saudi's got all wrong. They need to pass gun control legislation. Less guns = less violence. Hasn't history taught us anything?
About time.
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