The New American
When Aaron Zelman, the founder of Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership, died just before Christmas at his home in Wisconsin, eulogies poured in from people Zelman had impacted. One came from Eugene Volokh, who said that Zelman’s "most notable contribution was research pointing out the frequency with which genocide has been preceded by prohibiting arms possession by the targeted victims."
Zelman's updated book Death by Gun Control reviews the history of exterminations of unarmed peoples in Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, Mao’s China, Cambodia, Guatemala, Uganda, Armenia, Rwanda, and Bosnia. In Volokh’s review of that book, he noted:
The number of people killed by governments in the twentieth century is over two-thirds of the current population of the United States. As a cause of premature death, criminal governments massively outpace ordinary criminals.
A tribute from AmmoLand Gun News reminded its readers that Zelman’s seminal article exposed the 1968 Gun Control Act’s direct connection, courtesy of then-Senator Thomas Dodd, to the Nazi Gun Control Act of 1938, which led to the attempted extermination of all Jews in Germany after they were successfully disarmed: "Aaron had a take-no-prisoners way of thinking and challenged everyone from the NRA, to Washington bureaucrats to Ted Nugent in the name of the Second Amendment."In an interview with John Birch Society president John F. McManus in 2008, Zelman said, “We’re not interested in compromise. We are only interested in the destruction of … the evil and deadly policy known as gun control.” ...
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The Human Cost of "Gun Control" Ideas
| The Genocide Chart © JPFO.org 2002 | |||||
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| Government | Dates | Targets | Civilians Killed | "Gun Control" Laws | Features of Over-all "Gun Control" scheme |
| Ottoman Turkey | 1915-1917 | Armenians (mostly Christians) | 1-1.5 million | Art. 166, Pen. Code, 1866 & 1911 Proclamation, 1915 | • Permits required •Government list of owners •Ban on possession |
| Soviet Union | 1929-1945 | Political opponents; farming communities | 20 million | Resolutions, 1918 Decree, July 12, 1920 Art. 59 & 182, Pen. code, 1926 | •Licensing of owners •Ban on possession •Severe penalties |
| Nazi Germany & Occupied Europe | 1933-1945 | Political opponents; Jews; Gypsies; critics; "examples" | 20 million | Law on Firearms & Ammun., 1928 Weapon Law, March 18, 1938 Regulations against Jews, 1938 | •Registration & Licensing •Stricter handgun laws •Ban on possession |
| China, Nationalist | 1927-1949 | Political opponents; army conscripts; others | 10 million | Art. 205, Crim. Code, 1914 Art. 186-87, Crim. Code, 1935 | •Government permit system •Ban on private ownership |
| China, Red | 1949-1952 1957-1960 1966-1976 | Political opponents; Rural populations Enemies of the state | 20-35 million | Act of Feb. 20, 1951 Act of Oct. 22, 1957 | •Prison or death to "counter-revolutionary criminals" and anyone resisting any government program •Death penalty for supply guns to such "criminals" |
| Guatemala | 1960-1981 | Mayans & other Indians; political enemies | 100,000- 200,000 | Decree 36, Nov 25 •Act of 1932 Decree 386, 1947 Decree 283, 1964 | •Register guns & owners •Licensing with high fees •Prohibit carrying guns •Bans on guns, sharp tools •Confiscation powers |
| Uganda | 1971-1979 | Christians Political enemies | 300,000 | Firearms Ordinance, 1955 Firearms Act, 1970 | •Register all guns & owners •Licenses for transactions •Warrantless searches •Confiscation powers |
| Cambodia (Khmer Rouge) | 1975-1979 | Educated Persons; Political enemies | 2 million | Art. 322-328, Penal Code Royal Ordinance 55, 1938 | •Licenses for guns, owners, ammunition & transactions •Photo ID with fingerprints •License inspected quarterly |
| Rwanda | 1994 | Tutsi people | 800,000 | Decree-Law No. 12, 1979 | •Register guns, owners, ammunition •Owners must justify need •Concealable guns illegal •Confiscating powers |
