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THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS - The Relationship Between Gun Control and Genocides

THE WAR ON GUN OWNERSHIP STILL GOES ON

as appearing in March 1994's Guns & Ammo magazine.

LETHAL LAWS

Military rifles are society's "life preservers." Without them gun control can ultimately lead to mass murder.

-- By Jay Simkin

The Down-Side of Gun Control

Advocates cannot see any harm in gun control, but it has a nasty downside. Its victims number in the tens of millions. Its downside is genocide: the mass-murder of civilians on account of religion, language, or political views. Since 1900, at least seven major genocides have occurred worldwide involving 50-60 million victims (see table).

MAJOR 20th CENTURY GENOCIDES -- THE COST OF GUN-CONTROL
                                                Date of
Perpetrator                       # Murdered    Gun-Ctrl  Source
Gov.        Date     Target       (Estimated)   Law     Document
~~~~~~~~    ~~~~~~~  ~~~~~~~~~    ~~~~~~~~~~~~  ~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~
Ottoman     1915-17  Armenians    1-1.5 Mil.    1866    Art. 166,
Turky                                                   Penal Code
Soviet      1929-53  Anti-Comm.   20 Million    1929    Art. 128,
Union                Anti-Stal.                         Penal Code
Nazi        1933-45  Jews,        13 Million    1928    Law on Fire-
Germany              Anti-Nazis,                        arms & Ammun.
& occupied           Gypsies                            April 12,
Europe                                                  Weapons Law,
                                                        March 18
China       1948-52  Anti-        20 Million    1935    Arts. 186 & 7
                     Communists                         Penal Code.
                                                1966-   Pro-Reform
                                                1976    Group
Guatemala   1960-81  Mayan        100,000       1871    Decree #36
                     Indians                    1964    Decree #283
Uganda      1971-79  Christians,  300,000       1955    Firearms Ord.
                     Pol. Rivals                1970    Firearms Act
Cambodia    1975-79  Educated     1 Million     1956    Arts. 322-328,
                     Persons                            Penal Code
TOTAL VICTIMS: 55.9 MILLION

English translations of the original gun control laws responsible for all this genocide are in the book, Lethal Laws, available from: JPFO, Inc., 2872 South Wentworth Ave., Milwaukee, WI 53207

The rest of this article deals with the relationship between gun control and genocide in some detail. It's very enlightening. The author cites many sources, and also shows:

Government officials are the world's largest mass murderers.
How we can prevent genocide -- and how it almost happened in the USA to 125,000 Americans in 1941-42.
The government is NOT all-powerful: All law enforcement (including military) in the USA, for example, is only 1.1% of the population. [The USA has a much larger military in proportion to civilians than Canada does.]
Several cases where armed citizens have prevented genocide (Afghanistan is one example).
The Chicago Police Department report: from 1965 to 1992, there were 21,204 gun murders -- Nine (9) were from bullets that might have come from a military-type weapon!

Read the rest of this article in the March 1994 issue of Guns & Ammo. The author has been researching this and writing about it for many years.

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