Does Gun Control Lead to Genocide?

[Smokepole]

Does Gun Control Lead to Genocide?

By Eileen Toplansky
American Thinker
June 1st. 2018

Rational conversations about gun control are difficult to come by. Hyperbole as well as deliberate misstatements only lead to emotional tirades. With this in mind, I will tread carefully toward illuminating the question posed by this article.


In their 1997 paper titled "Of Holocausts and Gun Control," Daniel D. Polsby and Don B. Kates, Jr. note:

The question of genocide is one of manifest importance in the closing years of a century that has been extraordinary for the quality and quantity of its bloodshed. As Elie Wiesel has rightly pointed out, 'This century is the most violent in recorded history. Never have so many people participated in the killing of so many people.'

Yet:

Contemporary scholars have little explored the preconditions of genocide. Still less have they asked whether a society's weapons policy [contributes] to the probability of its government engaging in some of the more extreme varieties of outrage. Though it is a long step between being disarmed and being murdered – one does not usually lead to the other – ... it is nevertheless an arresting reality that not one of the principal genocides of the twentieth century, and there have been dozens, has been inflicted on a population that was armed.

• In 1929, the Soviet Union established gun control. From 1929 to 1953, 20 million dissidents were rounded up and murdered.
  
  
• In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Christian Armenians were rounded up and exterminated.
  
  
• In 1938, Germany established gun control. From 1939 to 1945, 13 million Jews and others were rounded up and exterminated.
  
  
• In 1935, China established gun control. From 1948 to 1952, 20 million political dissidents were rounded up and exterminated.
  
  
• In 1956, Cambodia established gun control. From 1975 to 1977, 1 million educated people were rounded up and exterminated.
  
  
• In 1964, Guatemala established gun control. From 1981 to 1984, 100,000 Mayan Indians were rounded up and exterminated.
  
  
• In 1970, Uganda established gun control. From 1971 to 1979, 300,000 Christians were rounded up and exterminated.

[fatskater]

The mentality of those in power leads to genocide. Though they don't see it, the left has that mentality, just look at how they treat, talk about and think of those who don't believe as they do.

[red442joe]

As bad as they treat us now with all the guns we have,
it is too great a risk.
So, yes, effectively.

Joe

[Ballistic223]

This is powerful info and JPFO published a book years ago on the subject as well. This is the reason that the founders wrote the 2A!

[jmonarch]

This is powerful info and JPFO published a book years ago on the subject as well. This is the reason that the founders wrote the 2A!

http://shop.jpfo.org/cart.php?m=product_detail&p=8
http://shop.jpfo.org/cart.php?m=product_detail&p=24

[Ballistic223]

That's the one!

I have the book and it is very worth the price. I honestly think it would end gun control in this country if more gun owners knew that info and used it against the gun banners.