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| | Gun control "contributes to the probability of its government engaging" in [[genocide]] It has been responsible for: including: :<ref>"[A] society's weapons policy might be one of the institutional arrangements that contributes to the probability of its government engaging in some of the more extreme varieties of outrage. ... [I]t is [] 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." [http://ls.wustl.edu/WULQ/75-3/753-4.html Washington University Law Quarterly]</ref> | | Gun control "contributes to the probability of its government engaging" in [[genocide]] It has been responsible for: including: :<ref>"[A] society's weapons policy might be one of the institutional arrangements that contributes to the probability of its government engaging in some of the more extreme varieties of outrage. ... [I]t is [] 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." [http://ls.wustl.edu/WULQ/75-3/753-4.html Washington University Law Quarterly]</ref> |
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| − | *(1915-18) The[[Ottoman Empire]] imposed gun control in 1911, and then, from 1915 to 1918, killed 2.75 million out of 5.5 million Ottoman Christians, including 1.5 million out of 2 million Armenians, 750,000 out of 1 million Assyrian Christians, and 500,000 out of 2.5 million Pontic Greeks. | + | *(1915-18) The [[Ottoman Empire]] imposed gun control in 1911, and then, from 1915 to 1918, killed 2.75 million out of 5.5 million Ottoman Christians, including 1.5 million out of 2 million Armenians, 750,000 out of 1 million Assyrian Christians, and 500,000 out of 2.5 million Pontic Greeks. |
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| − | *(1917-1953) The Soviet Union under Lenin and Stalin killed 61 million of its own citizens, with 10 million going to Vladimir Lenin, who conducted his murders from 1917 to 1924, and 51 million going to Iosif Stalin, including 8 million out of 24 million Ukrainians that perished in the 1932-33 [[Holodomor]]. | + | *(1917-1953) The [[Soviet Union]] under [[Lenin]] and [[Stalin]] killed 61 million of its own citizens, with 10 million going to Vladimir Lenin, who conducted his murders from 1917 to 1924, and 51 million going to Iosif Stalin, including 8 million out of 24 million Ukrainians that perished in the 1932-33 [[Holodomor]]. |
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| | *(1942-45) Europe under the control of [[Nazi Germany]] led by [[Adolf Hitler]], which imposed gun control in 1938, killed 21 million people, including 8 million Soviet citizens, and killing in the concentration camps 6 million out of 9 million European Jews, 2 million out of 34 million Poles, 3 million Soviet POW’s plus 1 million other groups including Gypsies. <ref>[http://www.thegunzone.com/rkba/rkba-12.html The True Face of Gun Control], Dean Speir, The Gun Zone RKBA, Accessed December 26, 2007</ref> | | *(1942-45) Europe under the control of [[Nazi Germany]] led by [[Adolf Hitler]], which imposed gun control in 1938, killed 21 million people, including 8 million Soviet citizens, and killing in the concentration camps 6 million out of 9 million European Jews, 2 million out of 34 million Poles, 3 million Soviet POW’s plus 1 million other groups including Gypsies. <ref>[http://www.thegunzone.com/rkba/rkba-12.html The True Face of Gun Control], Dean Speir, The Gun Zone RKBA, Accessed December 26, 2007</ref> |