“In the twentieth century the number of people killed by their own governments under authoritarian regimes is four times the number killed in all this century’s wars combined.”

And most of those people killed had without a doubt, been disarmed. The government that controls the guns, controls everything.

J Carlton, right on target.

JPFO "Innocents Betrayed"

Reminds me of a line in Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's "The Gulag Archipelago"... Something about how quickly Stalin's purges would have ended if each person being arrested had fired one bullet at their kidnappers...

This is the tendency of nationalist governments. Civilian disarmament guarantees totalitarianism.