The deadliest killer of the twentieth century wasn't war, and it wasn't crime. It was government. R.J. Rummel's democide tally counts 262 million people murdered by their own states, six times the century's combat deaths, and nearly every regime that ran up that number took the guns first. From the Weimar Republic's gun registry to Cambodia's killing fields, from Chavez's gun ban to Bondi Beach, the recipe never changes: register, reassure, restrict. The state keeps its rifles. You get a brick.

Sources:

https://hawaii.edu/powerkills/NOTE1.HTM

https://reason.com/2014/05/15/be-antigovernment-and-proud

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