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Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla
....Actually, every post I've ever written about guns is a defense of that assertion, on this point and that. It informs all my thinking on guns and society. I've read the arguments the JPFO has made on gun rights and how not to have genocide, and their argument persuades me. It is also an argument of which you remain resolutely ignorant, and to be resolutely ignorant of anything is a poor use of a mind. I think were you to stop being resolutely ignorant, their argument would persuade you also. I commend to your attention Simkin, Zelman and Rice, Lethal Laws: "Gun Control" Is The Key To Genocide, which cites the gun control laws (printing them in the original, w/facing pages translating) and the genocides paired with them. My edition was printed before Rwanda.
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UG....if it is the study I am thinking of, the past examples cited to draw the conclusion that gun control leads to genocide have no valid comparison to the US, or even Iraq.
Stalin's Russia, Hitler's Germany, Pol Pot's Cambodia and even Rwanda, did not have a comparable democratic form of government with a legislative body and a federal judiciary independent of the executive branch (or the ruling power).
In short, the comparisons are bullshit.
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Turning to Iraq.....Kurds aren't being gassed by Sunni-fired artillery....
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....in part, from helicopters that Reagan/Bush secretly sold to Saddam (along with funding for other war materials) ...and who they continued to support even after the gassing.