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  • TrinityScrimshaw
    The next time someone talks favorably about gun control, please remind them of this history lesson.

    In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

    In 1929, The Soviet Union established gun control. From 1929 to 1953, about 20 million dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

    In 1935, China established gun control. From 1948 to 1952, 20 million political dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated

    In 1938, Germany established gun control. From 1939 to 1945, a total of 13 million Jews and others who were unable to defend themselves were rounded up and exterminated.

    In 1956, Cambodia established gun control. From 1975 to 1977, one million educated people, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

    In 1964, Guatemala established gun control. From 1964 to 1981, 100,000 Mayan Indians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

    In 1970, Uganda established gun control. From1971 to 1979, 300,000 Christians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

    Defenseless people rounded up and exterminated in the 20th century because of gun control: 56 million.

    During WWII the Japanese decided not to invade the America home land because they knew most Americans were ARMED

    With guns, we are "citizens'. Without them, we are "subjects'.

    Trinity +++
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  • MBK
    Buy and read Ross's UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES. Great story and full of facts.
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  • Deadred707
    Gun control, the Law on Firearms and Ammunition, was introduced to Germany in 1928 under the Weimar regime (there was no Right to Arms in the Constitution of 1919) in large part to disarm the nascent private armies, e.g. the Nazi SA (aka "the brownshirts"). The Weimar government was attempting to bring some stability to German society and politics (a classic "law and order" position). Violent extremist movements (of both the Left and Right) were actively attacking the young, and very fragile, democratic state. A government that cannot maintain some degree of public order cannot sustain its legitimacy. Nor was the German citizenry well grounded in Constitutional, republican government (as was evidenced in their choices at the ballot box). Gun control was not initiated at the behest or on behalf of the Nazis - it was in fact designed to keep them, or others of the same ilk, from executing a revolution against the lawful government. In the strictest sense, the law succeeded - the Nazis did not stage an armed coup.
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  • Rocklobster
    Also, the Treaty of Versailles had already prohibited the manufacture of firearms in Germany to begin with.
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  • Little-Acorn
    quote:Originally posted by melkor
    Numbers are wrong, but the point is valid.
    Which ones? Please correct them - I could use a list like this.
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