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Originally Posted by Sumeragi
Again, please tell me how any of those regimes have applications to the modern democratic societies of today, for example Japan, Korea, Western Europe, etc. Basically, the use of such murderous regimes to justify anti-gun control is a red herring of the highest order, and those advocating the use of such examples are no better than the crackpots who say that guns causes mass deaths.
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That's easy.
Those regimes used gun control to disarm their populations.
They then proceeded to engage in democide for a variety of reasons.
With the TSA, the corruption in the BATFE, the NDAA law, the patriot act, the increased militarization of state and local law enforcement, and other police state style laws being passed by politicians of both parties in the US; many see parallels between the actions of the US government and those of previous democidal regimes.
Put another way, the price of freedom is eternal vigilance and/or "those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it."
This
book explains it pretty well.
The chart provided is also helpful in understanding the correlation between democide and the gun control issue.