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A LITTLE GUN HISTORY

In 1929, the Soviet Union established gun control.. From 1929 to 1953, about
20 million dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and
exterminated.
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In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million
Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
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Germany established gun control in 1938 and from 1939 to 1945, a total of 13
million Jews and others who were unable to defend themselves were rounded up
and exterminated.
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China established gun control in 1935. From 1948 to 1952, 20 million
political dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and
exterminated
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Guatemala established gun control in 1964. From 1964 to 1981, 100,000 Mayan
Indians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
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Uganda established gun control in 1970. From 1971 to 1979, 300,000
Christians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
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Cambodia established gun control in 1956. From 1975 to 1977, one million
educated people, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and
exterminated.
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Defenseless people rounded up and exterminated in the 20th Century because
of gun control: 56 million.
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It has now been 12 months since gun owners in Australia were forced by new
law to surrender 640,381 personal firearms to be destroyed by their own
Government, a program costing Australia taxpayers more than $500 million
dollars. The first year results are now in:
List of 7 items:

Australia-wide, homicides are up 3.2 percent.

Australia-wide, assaults are up 8.6 percent.

Australia-wide, armed robberies are up 44 percent (yes, 44 percent)!

In the state of Victoria alone, homicides with firearms are now up 300
percent. Note that while the law-abiding citizens turned them in, the
criminals did not, and criminals still possess their guns!

While figures over the previous 25 years showed a steady decrease in armed
robbery with firearms, this has changed drastically upward in the past 12
months, since criminals now are guaranteed that their prey is unarmed.

There has also been a dramatic increase in break-ins and assaults of the
ELDERLY. Australian politicians are at a loss to explain how public safety
has decreased, after such monumental effort, and expense was expended in
successfully ridding Australian society of guns. The Australian experience
and the other historical facts above prove it.

You won't see this data on the US evening news, or hear politicians
disseminating this information.

Guns in the hands of honest citizens save lives and property and, yes,
gun-control laws adversely affect only the law-abiding citizens

Take note my fellow Americans, before it's too late!

The next time someone talks in favor of gun control, please remind them of
this history lesson. With guns, we are 'citizens.' Without them, we are
'subjects'.

During WWII the Japanese decided not to invade America because they knew
most Americans were ARMED!

If you value your freedom, please spread this anti-gun control message to
all of your friends.

The purpose of fighting is to win. There is no possible victory in defense.
The sword is more important than the shield, and skill is more important
than either. The final weapon is the brain. All else is supplemental.

SWITZERLAND ISSUES EVERY HOUSEHOLD A GUN!

SWITZERLAND'S GOVERNMENT TRAINS EVERY ADULT THEY ISSUE A RIFLE.

SWITZERLAND HAS THE LOWEST GUN RELATED CRIME RATE OF ANY
CIVILIZED COUNTRY IN THE WORLD!!!

IT'S A NO BRAINER!

DON'T LET OUR GOVERNMENT WASTE MILLIONS OF OUR TAX DOLLARS
IN AN EFFORT TO MAKE ALL LAW ABIDING CITIZENS AN EASY TARGET.

I'm a firm believer of the 2nd Amendment!

If you are too,
please forward.

Just think how powerful our government is getting!

They think these other countries just didn't do it right.

Learn from history!

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1791/did-hitler-ban-gun-ownership

As regards laws passed by the Nazis forbidding gun ownership by Germans:

OK, so the quote and cite are screwed up. What about the supposed law itself? Well, as described in the FAQ, 1935 "has no correlation with any legislative effort by the Nazis for gun registration." (Nor, for that matter, does 1936, the year you mention in your question.) Indeed, there was no need for the Nazis to pass a law like that, because the earlier Weimar government had already passed gun registration laws. When I asked Cramer about his reasearch, he said, "The laws adopted by the Weimar Republic intended to disarm Nazis and Communists were sufficiently discretionary that the Nazis managed to use them against their enemies once they were in power." In other words, they didn't need to pass additional laws. The Nazis did pass a weapons law in 1938, but that only added restrictions to the previous law, especially for Jews and other "non-citizens."

Hitler did "effect total gun control," but only for the Jews, and only after his regime had been in power for several years. For the rest of the population he relied on laws already in place.

It should be noted that by 1938 the Nuremberg laws removing Jewish citizenship had been in effect since 1935.

Wilpharm,
Get Real. If the Colorodo shooter was armed with a knife, a bat or a battle axe would he have been able to inure or kill seventy people before he was stopped? If you don't think it's about guns then you are simply in denial.
Let me say this as a responsible gun owner and sportsman. I don't need a 33 or 100 round magazine to hunt deer or shoot clay. I don't need a flash supressor to defend my home. I don't need a colapsable stock to take a rifle to the range. Why can't we introduce some reason into this debate? No one wants to take your guns away if your or sane and not a criminal but why do we need military weapons, other than the my guns bigger than your gun childishness that I see throughout this debate.

If we look around us we see that other countries have some control of their guns. In 2004, handguns murdered:

5 people in New Zealand

37 people in Sweden

56 people in Australia

184 people in Canada

19 people in Japan

73 people in the UK

11,344 people in the United States

Even adjusting for population, these numbers are horrifying. Japan has almost half as many people as the United States. So how can these numbers be so dreadfully lopsided? Last I heard, Japan was considered civilized, modern and “open” compared to, say, Cuba. So why are those numbers so wildly out of proportion? Gun control. Pretty simple.

Among 26 of the industrialized nations, 86% of gun deaths among children under age 15 occurred in the United States. As of 2008 the city of Philadelphia alone had in storage 65,000 (yes, thousand) confiscated semi-automatic or fully automatic weapons. Every year one-half million violent crimes are committed with firearms in the USA. On average, each hour of every day, one person is murdered with a gun. There are an estimated 250 million guns in the USA. One in four Americans owns a gun. In 2004, semi-automatic assault weapons were again legal after a 10-year ban. Over 20 states have “Castle Laws” wherein you can shoot to kill any armed or unarmed person who poses a threat to your property, not just your life.

While I'm pro guns, I can't understand why do the people advocating for less gun control conveniently omit the word "conscription" when talking about guns and Switzerland?

Oh wait, I know why. It sounds cooler when one talks about how the Swiss government simply gives guns and offers training to anyone who asks for it. They don't give you the choice. They require all males to serve in the "militia". And after the training, you go home and take your gun with you to store at home in case of an invasion by a foreign state.

And the rounds issued by the government aren't to be used for any other purpose. They are inspected. (I think they changed the rules, so not sure about the procedure now.) But that ammunition is/was to be kept in a sealed container. Not actually loaded in a rifle.

While I think their system is brilliant (for a small country at least), I don't like the idea of anyone being forced by the government to do anything.

Oh, and they also don't issue carry permits on "shall issue" basis. So if you ever want to carry a gun with you, you would need to prove to the government that it's absolutely required -- and your safety as a private citizen is not a good enough reason.

You need to either be carrying a lot of cash or other valuables as part of your occupation, or you need to be a famous figure with stalkers harassing/threatening you. Otherwise, no permit. It's not much different from the NYC gun laws (practices), which are total crap.

Absolutely. You don't need a 20 pound hammer to kill a fly and you don't need an assault rifle to defend against a punk with a saturday night special.

No, but it wouuldn't hurt to have an assault rifle to defend against a punk with an assault rifle! I'm sure the saturday night special that control control advocates think is all a law abiding citizen should have (and that is stretching it) won't be much defense against the assault rifles the criminals will have. Remember the shootout in California with the bank robbers? They had assault rifles, during the active ban on them, and the cops did not. They had to go in search of guns that were capable of bringing the armed and armored robbers down. The criminals had illegal weapons, and the law abiding citizen did not.