Read chapter one of "Resistance to Tyranny" by Joseph P. Martino and you'll find examples of a direct correlation between gun control and genocide.
Turkey, Soviet Union, Germany, China, Uganda, Cambodia, Afghanistan, etc...
Gun registration leads to confiscation. When Hitler came into power he used the existing gun registry (put in place by liberals) to confiscate firearms then banned private ownership in 1938. This didn't end well for the Jews or political opponents to the Nazi party. Even here in the US we passed laws preventing slaves from owning firearms and even after slavery was abolished, states persisted in prohibiting blacks from owning firearms by renaming existing "slave codes" to "black codes". The best way to control and exploit people is to disarm them. The only way to disarm the people is to first find out who owns firearms then 5 or 10 years later you ban firearms then you confiscate them; or, in the DC v Heller case, you wait for someone to defend their life in their own home then arrest the homeowner for felony possession of a firearm.
Turkey, Soviet Union, Germany, China, Uganda, Cambodia, Afghanistan, etc...
Gun registration leads to confiscation. When Hitler came into power he used the existing gun registry (put in place by liberals) to confiscate firearms then banned private ownership in 1938. This didn't end well for the Jews or political opponents to the Nazi party. Even here in the US we passed laws preventing slaves from owning firearms and even after slavery was abolished, states persisted in prohibiting blacks from owning firearms by renaming existing "slave codes" to "black codes". The best way to control and exploit people is to disarm them. The only way to disarm the people is to first find out who owns firearms then 5 or 10 years later you ban firearms then you confiscate them; or, in the DC v Heller case, you wait for someone to defend their life in their own home then arrest the homeowner for felony possession of a firearm.
Cesare Beccaria said:laws that forbid the carrying of arms ... disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes ... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.
Stephen Halbrook said:http://www.stephenhalbrook.com/article-nazilaw.pdf
Gun control laws are depicted as benign and historically progressive. However, German firearm laws and hysteria created against Jewish firearm owners played a major role in laying the groundwork for the eradication of German Jewry in the Holocaust.
Justice Felix Frankfurter said:We are in danger of forgetting that the Bill of Rights reflects experience with police excesses. It is not only under Nazi rule that police excesses are inimical to freedom. It is easy to make light of insistence on scrupulous regard for the safeguards of civil liberties when invoked on behalf of the unworthy. It is too easy. History bears testimony that by such disregard are the rights of liberty extinguished, heedlessly at first, then stealthily, and brazenly in the end.
Adolph Hitler said:The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing.