So why can't Iraqis fire guns at weddings?

[spooked]

All that gunpowder and gunshots and cannons marking Reagan's death...geez

[leyton]

1. Because Iraq is a war zone...

and Washington, DC is not...

[unblock]

2. um, the pentagon was attacked on 9/11

if that was the start of a war, then i think that qualifies as a war zone.

which perhaps shows how silly calling an large-scale police action a "war" really is, but that's another story.

[leyton]

4. Nah, not a war zone.

Puh-leeze. 9/11 was, what, two and a half years ago? Since then, nobody has attacked Washington (okay, anthrax, but that's it) and you can hardly make the argument that people having guns in Iraq is the same thing as a formal military salute in Washington, DC. I mean, seriously, we liberals have bigger fish to fry than this, don't we?

[TexasMexican]

3. No Armed Apache Gunships or F-18s are Patrolling over the Funeral.

[TankLV]

5. Besides the fact that it's pretty stupid? The bullets DO come down

SOMEWHERE!

Read a lot about how in many US cities, many people each year die from bullet wounds from shots fired in the air miles away.

Can't stop the law of physics!

The stuff shot at ceremonies are blanks - only gunpowder - no ammo.

[spooked]

6. What I am saying is that the guns are SYMBOLIC in our death culture

why can't they be a celebratory practice in theirs?

[qanda]

9. I understand what you're saying, but you have to understand

They're the terrorists! /sarcasm

[alvis]

7. Because we liberated them.

So now they can't do that.

[stellanoir]

8. Meanwhile. . ."back in the jungle. . ."

rumor has it that their running low on bullets over in Iraq. Oh well. . . nevermind (n/t).

[leesa]

10. Because we might bomb them. Is this a trick question?

[izzie]

11. And why do we think it odd that a man calls for prayers

Is a bell better?