Politicians Are Allergic To Your Guns. Violence flares in Somali capital, six killed: NAIROBI, Oct 3 (Reuters) - Six people were killed and 12 others wounded in fighting over taxes between rival militia in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, residents said on Monday.
The gunfight broke out on Sunday when local faction leader Abdulkadir Bebe tried to seize the Bondhere district of central Mogadishu to collect a new levy which is unpopular with locals, they said.
"They failed to take the area because everybody here has a gun," resident Hussein Ali told Reuters in Nairobi by telephone. The real kicker (aside from imposing taxes) is that it is the "14th attempt to restore central government since 1991, Somalia's new President Abdullahi Yusuf returned earlier this year from Kenya but has failed to impose authority and has set up base outside Mogadishu due to insecurity there."
Now that is persistence (so is trying to tax someone -- which is equally Statist in nature). More: 1 2 3 [Mises Economics Blog]
Congratulations to the people of Bondhere. This is indeed an excellent example of why politicians support gun control, and why the Second Amendment exists.
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