OMG, this article is written in half-a$$ed fashion by a guy who had no idea what he was talking about.

SU special force Alpha attacked presidential palace to rescue Taraki but they were too late. the Soviet 40th army moved across Oxus river into the afgan land, for the 4th time in the XX century. it happened on Dec 27, 1979, at request of Taraki, duly elected president of the presidential palace (i remember that date, as it is my birthday date... )

the afgan had gun not to "protect" themselves - they grew (and still grow) hash and wanted to protect it... simple as that - where you have narcotics, you have guns...

my cousin was in afganistan in 1986, the soviets lost air not because of the stingers, they lost the presense due to internal changes in the politcal situation in moscow...

and somehow Polish Solidarnost got involved into this line of crap - I did a paper in the college, in 1985 on the Solidarnost movement, it started as a political demand and grew into criminal, free-for-all pogroms in Warsaw...

Mike, you are getting fed Propaganda by the Government that you will NOT ever rise against to - so, why cite DC vs. Heller where the "right" to bear arms is reduced to defense against criminals, and a moment later claim the 2nd amendment right to "correct" rogue government?

The 2nd amendment has been substituted long time ago - you can either stick to the original, and present your arms for service in well regulated militia, or, stick to todays reality, and admit to yourself, that you will never ever go against the US government, and need the guns to carry out your view of street justice.

And besides, have you read Karl Marx? do you know that his work, capital, is more capitalistic, than socialistic? the Wall Street operates on the principles outlined in that book...

and I hear that the US is not democracy but a republic... what another nonsense is that??? Republic is derived from Latin Res Publica, something belonging to the public, as opposed to belonging to a monarch. which is the wording behind at least two commonwealths that I know about, the Pennsylvania and the Virginia... Common... The root of the word Common is public, something belonging to community... don't you think that defending Republic, you are defending the main, original principle of the communism? granted, what we KNOW about the communism comes from execution of it in the USSR, or in the French Republic that turned into Empire...either were not the visions of Robespiere who got beheaded for treason, as he raised dessent, nor Lenin, who was left to die in relative isolation, while the power was overtaken by some rogue dictators...

thank God, it should not happen in the US, our democracy is strong enough after 200 years of existence...

JCL, this argument sounds more and more like someone trying to take away a favorite toy from a kid - as the matter is viewed from two different planes of view, it will be hard to convince the kid, the he has overgrown his toys...