Once upon a time, Ray Daugherty implied (and I!)that violence in Somalia would eventually be snuffed out as the security market atomized. I find it interesting in this Year 14 AB (after Barre) that when a warlord's militia tried take over a Mogadushu neighborhood to collect a levy "which is unpopular with locals," his forces were attacked by what Reuters claims/assumes is another militia. But reading on, we're presented with this quote:

"They failed to take the area because everybody here has a gun," resident Hussein Ali told Reuters in Nairobi by telephone.

No mention of a rival militia, only of many armed, pissed off regular people. Hmm.