The years-long clamor by Nigerian citizens for the right to bear arms has begun to sound like a roar. “If the Government cannot protect us, we will use any means to protect ourselves,” said the Reverend Polycarp Lubo in Yelwan Zangam on Aug. 28 at a mass funeral for victims of terrorist attacks by gunmen. “We are not telling our people to be lawless, but if anyone says your life is not of value, his too should not be accorded any value,” said Lubo. “Our people have to rise up and defend themselves instead of sleeping and waiting on the government for protection.” Outraged citizens protesting lax law enforcement and restraints on gun ownership carried the corpses of their friends and neighbors killed by gun-carrying terrorists to the doors of the Government House on Aug. 25. The latest attack by Fulani militants, Nigeria’s deadliest insurgent group, killed 36 people in …