Many assume there's no down-side to "gun control", and so argue it is irrational to oppose "gun control".
That is error. The down-side to "gun control" is genocide, in which hundreds of thousands - or millions - are murdered. The logic is simple: if a targeted group and their sympathizers are disarmed, that makes it easier for a genocidal politician to recruit the thousands of helpers needed to commit the murders. Making genocide a low-risk or "no-risk" matter cannot have good results.
In the 20th Century, the biggest murderers were officials of governments "gone bad", not criminals, common or organized.
An example: on 29-30 September 1941, the Nazis and local helpers murdered 33,000 Jews - including thousands of children - at Babi Yar, near Kyiv, Ukraine, then part of the ex-Soviet Union. In all of 2020, the U.S. recorded 21,570 murders (FBI, Crime in the United States - 2020, Table 1).
The Soviet régime imposed "gun control" almost from the outset (7 November 1917):
"1 April [1918]. ...The certificates authorizing the carrying and keeping of firearms issued by the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, are valid throughout the territory of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic." Dekreti Sovetskoy Vlasti (Decrees of Soviet Power), Vol. II (17 March - 10 April 1918). Moscow, 1959; Doc. 22, pp. 40-41. This Soviet document - and the translation - were published in Lethal Laws: "Gun control" is the key to Genocide, JPFO, 1994.
Ordinary Soviets likely could not get such a certificate. Unlike Jews in Germany, Ukraine's Jews were not a micro-minority. Jews were 5.4% of 30.9 million Ukrainians (1939 census). Statesman's Yearbook - 1949; 86th Ed.; London, p. 1399.
Soviet "gun control" promoted the murders of 1.5 million Soviet Jews, including hundreds of thousands of children. Most were buried alive, some after being shot into burial pits, others suffocated under the weight of corpses.
So, use what's above to against those, who argue for "gun control". Ask them, "Still think "gun control" has no down-side?"
Note that I cite to specific public/published sources. I do this, so that no one can accuse you of "imagining" things.
That is error. The down-side to "gun control" is genocide, in which hundreds of thousands - or millions - are murdered. The logic is simple: if a targeted group and their sympathizers are disarmed, that makes it easier for a genocidal politician to recruit the thousands of helpers needed to commit the murders. Making genocide a low-risk or "no-risk" matter cannot have good results.
In the 20th Century, the biggest murderers were officials of governments "gone bad", not criminals, common or organized.
An example: on 29-30 September 1941, the Nazis and local helpers murdered 33,000 Jews - including thousands of children - at Babi Yar, near Kyiv, Ukraine, then part of the ex-Soviet Union. In all of 2020, the U.S. recorded 21,570 murders (FBI, Crime in the United States - 2020, Table 1).
The Soviet régime imposed "gun control" almost from the outset (7 November 1917):
"1 April [1918]. ...The certificates authorizing the carrying and keeping of firearms issued by the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, are valid throughout the territory of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic." Dekreti Sovetskoy Vlasti (Decrees of Soviet Power), Vol. II (17 March - 10 April 1918). Moscow, 1959; Doc. 22, pp. 40-41. This Soviet document - and the translation - were published in Lethal Laws: "Gun control" is the key to Genocide, JPFO, 1994.
Ordinary Soviets likely could not get such a certificate. Unlike Jews in Germany, Ukraine's Jews were not a micro-minority. Jews were 5.4% of 30.9 million Ukrainians (1939 census). Statesman's Yearbook - 1949; 86th Ed.; London, p. 1399.
Soviet "gun control" promoted the murders of 1.5 million Soviet Jews, including hundreds of thousands of children. Most were buried alive, some after being shot into burial pits, others suffocated under the weight of corpses.
So, use what's above to against those, who argue for "gun control". Ask them, "Still think "gun control" has no down-side?"
Note that I cite to specific public/published sources. I do this, so that no one can accuse you of "imagining" things.
