"Death by Gun Control" - A chart showing gun laws in countries where genocides took place

[East_TN_Patriot]

This chart was obtained from a group called Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership.  It briefly outlines the gun laws in countries that also had genocides during the 20th Century.  I would caution anyone to assume that restricting guns is a sufficient precursor to genocide, because clearly it is not.  However, I would suggest that nations where individual rights, including the right to own firearms, are not respected, that nation is much more likely to engage in violence against its people.  I think it is especially interesting to note the gun control laws in Rwanda, home of the most violent genocide since the Holocaust (and if you consider the rate of killing in such a short amount of time - 4 months - it is the most violent genocide of the 20th Century).  800,000 people were not killed with guns, not poison gas, not "weapons of war"; they were killed with the crudest of weapons: machetes.  The perpetrators roamed the cities and countryside in groups armed with nothing more than machetes.  I am confident that they would have used AK-47 rifles if they were available, but their scarcity certainly did not prevent the violence.  This is the legacy of the Second Amendment. 

EDIT:  The source formatting didn't transfer over like I thought, so I have adapted the chart data here.  For sake of simplicity, I omitted the victim groups, but suffice it to say, it is always less-powerful minority groups and/or people deemed as "enemies of the state" who pose a potential threat to the group in power. 

 

The Mother of All Stats
The Human Cost of "Gun Control" Ideas

The Genocide Chart © JPFO.org 2002

1) Ottoman Turkey 1915-1917 (1-1.5 million deaths):   Art. 166, Pen. Code, 1866 & 1911; Proclamation, 1915: Permits required; Government list of owners; Ban on possession
2) Soviet Union 1929-1945 (20 million deaths):  Resolutions, 1918; Decree, July 12, 1920; Art. 59 & 182, Pen. code, 1926:  Licensing of owners; Ban on possession; Severe penalties
3) Nazi Germany & Occupied Europe 1933-1945 (20 million deaths):  Law on Firearms & Ammun., 1928; Weapon Law, March 18, 1938; Regulations against Jews; 1938: Registration & Licensing; Stricter handgun laws; Ban on possession
4) China, Nationalist 1927-1949 (10 million deaths): Art. 205, Crim. Code, 1914; Art. 186-87, Crim. Code, 1935: Government permit system; Ban on private ownership
5) China, Red 1949-1952; 1957-1960; 1966-1976, (20-35 million deaths): Act of Feb. 20, 1951, Act of Oct. 22, 1957: Prison or death to "counter-revolutionary criminals" and anyone resisting any government program; Death penalty for supply guns to such "criminals"
6) Guatemala 1960-1981 (100,000-200,000 deaths): Decree 36, Nov 25; Act of 1932; Decree 386, 1947; Decree 283, 1964: Register guns & owners, Licensing with high fees; Prohibit carrying guns; Bans on guns and sharp tools; Confiscation powers
7) Uganda 1971-1979 (300,000 deaths): Firearms Ordinance, 1955; Firearms Act, 1970; Register all guns & owners; Licenses for transactions; Warrantless searches; Confiscation powers
8) Cambodia (Khmer Rouge) 1975-1979 (2 million deaths): Art. 322-328, Penal Code Royal Ordinance 55, 1938: Licenses for guns, owners, ammunition & transactions; Photo ID with fingerprints; License inspected quarterly
9) Rwanda 1994 (800,000 deaths in a 4 month period): Decree-Law No. 12, 1979: Register guns, owners, ammunition; Owners must justify need; Concealable guns illegal; Confiscating powers

 

http://jpfo.org/filegen-a-m/deathgc.htm#chart

Edited January 11, 2013 by East_TN_Patriot

[East_TN_Patriot]

I thought this thread would be a little more popular than it has been thus far...

[mcurrier]

I thought this thread would be a little more popular than it has been thus far...

 

There is so much stuff out there right now, it's simply astounding.  50 times more than there ever is normally.