Without Historical Exception: Genocide Follows Mass Gun Confiscation

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Gun Grabs Precede Genocides Throughout history, authoritarian regimes have disarmed populations before persecuting or exterminating them. Time and again, once people were stripped of weapons, they lost the means to defend their lives – and genocides or massacres followed. As one commentary bluntly observed, “Every genocide in modern history has started with a gun registration, … Read more

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