![]() ![]() Stalin’s heartless indifference for life combined with his extreme paranoia eventually led to the purging of the Communist Party at the same time a total gun ban was instituted. Tens of millions of Soviet dissidents and others perceived as threats to the government were rounded up and either murdered or placed in labor camps or prisons and forced to work, sometimes to their deaths during Stalin’s tenure. The repressive and brutal régime of Joseph Stalin emerged at the same time that firearm ownership was outlawed. Soviet citizens were allowed to have firearms until 1929 when private gun ownership was abolished. Armenians who were part of the Ottoman military and discharged “…were disarmed, placed into labor battalions, and then killed.” The University of Michigan report also discussed the formation of “Butcher Battalions” composed mostly of violent criminals released from prison to kill ethnic Armenians. This mass murder has become known as the Armenian Holocaust. Between 19 approximately 1.5 million Armenians (out of a total of 2.5 million) were murdered by their government. #THE TRUTH ABOUT GUNS FULL#The university’s report noted that in 1911 the empire achieved full gun confiscation. A short history of the slaughter was published by the University of Michigan. That government slaughtered millions of Armenians who were native to the empire. The Ottoman Empire existed in the region of current-day Turkey. Given the increase in calls for more gun control including confiscation and even talk about repealing the Second Amendment we believe it is appropriate to start with an examination of the history of gun control around the world and its impact on common folk. Some lawmakers, academics, pundits and ordinary Americans call for outright gun bans and confiscation in the wake of these shootings. Gun control is once again at the surface of discourse and policy-making in the United States. We all know that didn’t work! The King’s intent to disarm American colonists was one of the foundational reasons for our Founding Fathers adopting the Second Amendment to the Constitution. King George of England attempted to implement gun confiscation policies in the Colonies before the Revolutionary War. This is one explanation about why the most murderous governments and despots in the last 150 years limited gun ownership and, in some cases, confiscated firearms from their citizens. The availability of firearms for self-defense has made it more difficult for governments and tyrants to victimize their citizens. There are numerous historical accounts of brutal despots, kings and tyrannical governments victimizing their subjugated citizens who were too powerless to resist (see. ![]() To those who question the validity of the information below we have a simple two-part question: Were the citizens of these countries victims of mass murder by their governments? Did the citizens have access to firearms to defend themselves? A Brief History of Gun Control Worldwide It doesn’t make any difference when the mass extermination happened–before or after disarmament–what matters is when the governments started killing their citizens the people did not have access to firearms to defend themselves. Rather what we see in the examples below is a correlation between an unarmed citizenry and mass exterminations. Yet, Snopes and other anti-gunners want us to believe that because there is no cause-effect relationship between disarmament and mass murder that the examples are invalid. “It’s amazing how rarely total causation is proven in social research.” ( ). Some people who are anti-guns don’t believe there is a cause-effect relationship between a disarmed citizenry and mass murders of citizens by their governments for example, refutes the relationship saying “‘Gun control’ isn’t synonymous with gun confiscation in some cases where genocide occurred, gun restriction laws had already been in place for many years prior, and evidence does not demonstrate a causal link between gun control and mass exterminations.” ( ).Īnyone with a basic understanding of research knows that it is very difficult to establish causal (cause and effect) relationships in the social sciences. The emotions of gun control find people unwilling to consider the facts behind gun-related deaths. The politics of gun control finds politicians crafting messages that appeal to potential voters who are horrified by gun-related deaths. Gun control is a politically and emotionally charged topic. We conclude with a summary of facts about gun-related deaths in the United States. We continue with an examination of the racist, sexist, and anti-gay underpinnings of gun control using Maryland as an example. Next, we look at the history of gun control in the United States. We begin with a look back at the history of gun control throughout the world. ![]()
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