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We know the more common socialist mass murder acts......Europe, 15 million, Russia, 25 million, China, over 70 million, 1/3 the population of Cambodia......
And another one that doesn't get even as much attention as the others....
And....it was preceded by gun control...
The original article...
It’s important to remember that millions of real people and their descendants would be alive today were it not for gun control paving the way for tyrannical regimes.
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At first, the government created by the Young Turks appeared to be modeled after a secular western democracy. The Armenians embraced their promises, and some even joined their government. During this time, the Ottomans started passing penal codes which created the groundwork for gun control. According to Ottoman code: “Those who, without permission, carry or sell such prohibited cartridges, weapons, gunpowder or explosive substances are also punished with imprisonment…and by taking a fine.” There also are similar regulations on manufacturing and references to gun licensing.
Not discriminatory from the start. They have no mention of Armenians. But once the regulations were on the books, it was not hard to institute them specifically on ethnic minorities. But once such regulations were on the books, it was not hard to institute them specifically on ethnic minorities. The Turks’ process was to round up the Armenians, demand they leave their belongings behind (for them to loot later), and force them to march through the desert to die. All of this was done under the guise of being for their own “safety.” Even though Turkey was in the middle of World War I, the Minister of War – Enver Pasha – signed an order that all Armenian soldiers fighting in the Turkish army be disarmed(1).
Shortly after, a systematic effort began to disarm all Armenians in the empire. According to an official proclamation(2) posted to the village of Trebizond:
Armenians are compelled to obey the government’s decisions. If there be any persons among them who dare to use arms against soldiers or gendarmes, arms will be used against such persons and they shall be “arrested dead.” Likewise, those who refuse to depart, disobeying the government’s decision and hiding themselves here and there, and those persons who hide them in their houses or feed them to help them to hide, will also be sent to Court Martial to be condemned to death… Armenians being prohibited to carry any firearms, they must surrender to the government all kinds of arms, pistols, bombs, and daggers that they have hidden in their houses or out of doors. The government has been informed about the quantity of these arms, and those persons who try to secrete them instead of delivering them up to the government will be very severely punished when the arms are discovered by the government.
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And another one that doesn't get even as much attention as the others....
And....it was preceded by gun control...
The original article...
It’s important to remember that millions of real people and their descendants would be alive today were it not for gun control paving the way for tyrannical regimes.
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At first, the government created by the Young Turks appeared to be modeled after a secular western democracy. The Armenians embraced their promises, and some even joined their government. During this time, the Ottomans started passing penal codes which created the groundwork for gun control. According to Ottoman code: “Those who, without permission, carry or sell such prohibited cartridges, weapons, gunpowder or explosive substances are also punished with imprisonment…and by taking a fine.” There also are similar regulations on manufacturing and references to gun licensing.
Not discriminatory from the start. They have no mention of Armenians. But once the regulations were on the books, it was not hard to institute them specifically on ethnic minorities. But once such regulations were on the books, it was not hard to institute them specifically on ethnic minorities. The Turks’ process was to round up the Armenians, demand they leave their belongings behind (for them to loot later), and force them to march through the desert to die. All of this was done under the guise of being for their own “safety.” Even though Turkey was in the middle of World War I, the Minister of War – Enver Pasha – signed an order that all Armenian soldiers fighting in the Turkish army be disarmed(1).
Shortly after, a systematic effort began to disarm all Armenians in the empire. According to an official proclamation(2) posted to the village of Trebizond:
Armenians are compelled to obey the government’s decisions. If there be any persons among them who dare to use arms against soldiers or gendarmes, arms will be used against such persons and they shall be “arrested dead.” Likewise, those who refuse to depart, disobeying the government’s decision and hiding themselves here and there, and those persons who hide them in their houses or feed them to help them to hide, will also be sent to Court Martial to be condemned to death… Armenians being prohibited to carry any firearms, they must surrender to the government all kinds of arms, pistols, bombs, and daggers that they have hidden in their houses or out of doors. The government has been informed about the quantity of these arms, and those persons who try to secrete them instead of delivering them up to the government will be very severely punished when the arms are discovered by the government.
Gun control and genocide
A post about the Armenian genocide and the role gun control played sparks some thoughts on the topic.
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