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== Gun Control and Genocide ==
== Gun Control and Genocide ==
Gun control has led to [[genocide]] in at least three instances in the 20th century:
Gun control has led to [[genocide]] in at least four instances in the 20th century:
*In 1911, [[Turkey]] imposed gun control and then, from 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million defenseless Armenians were killed.
*In 1911, [[Turkey]] imposed gun control and then, from 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million defenseless Armenians were killed.
*In 1938, [[Germany]] imposed gun control and then over the next seven years 13 million defenseless Jews and other victims were exterminated.
*In 1938, [[Germany]] imposed gun control and then over the next seven years 13 million defenseless Jews and other victims were exterminated.
*In 1992, the [[United Nations]] imposed an arms embargo on Bosnia-Herzegovina after civil war broke out in the former Yugoslavia. The fact that the Bosnians were unable to purchase arms meant they were largely defenseless against a vastly better equipped Serbia. In July of 1995, Bosnian Serbs overran the town of Srebrenica and massacred over 7500 Muslim men and boys. Generals who carried out the [[Srebrenica massacre]] have since been convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal of the crime of genocide.
"The Nazis made only two important changes to the Weapons Law that was in place when they came to power. First, they forbade Jews from owning guns or any other weapon. Second, they exempted members of the Sturmabteilung (SA) and many Nazi party officials from the law's strictures."<ref name="Washington University Law Quarterly"/>
"The Nazis made only two important changes to the Weapons Law that was in place when they came to power. First, they forbade Jews from owning guns or any other weapon. Second, they exempted members of the Sturmabteilung (SA) and many Nazi party officials from the law's strictures."<ref name="Washington University Law Quarterly"/>