Gun Control Advocates: Are They Really Anti-Gun?steemCreated with Sketch.

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What does the anti-gun crowd really represent? The dislike for guns, or the centralization of gun ownership?

If history were to tell us anything about centralized power and a weakened, coalesced population, is that it usually doesn't end well. I have read a few well-written articles on the issue by @thecryptofiend, which was taking an unbiased look at the argument. Although I enjoy impartiality, I am not going to fog anyone and tell them that I am impartial on this issue. The death by democide is one of the most unnatural causes of death over the past century.

 

                                               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

Just taking a look at the individual's inability to stave off an out of control government, the statistics are frightening. As government always does, it historically focused on an undefended minority group, using propaganda to gain public support to alleviate those chosen people from being able to defend themselves. From Christians, political adversaries to Jews and others, many have felt the wrath of the overpowered and advantaged state against their defenseless numbers.

Before you think about gun control and how bad you want it, think about the millions that have died, if you can. You are not anti-gun, you just want a monopoly on who is able to have guns; those with a history of genocide known as governments.

" A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic. "   - Joseph Stalin


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gun control advocates are all about CONTROL

Truth

How well said very good upvoted and followed

Thanks, I probably could have went on a million tangents to drive the point home, but one at a time, I guess

Back in 1992, during the riots in Los Angeles... All those "anti-gun" people were calling anyone they knew with guns, asking if they could borrow one...

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Yeah, I'm a bit disappointed in the votes thus far

If a person is committed and predisposed to committing an act of violence on such a mass scale, the only thing that will stop them is someone prepared, trained, and capable of defending life. It’s time to tell the liberals that we are tired of being held to the mercy of the criminals and the mentally ill, while we wait for standard emergency response times.

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