An example of a disarmed citizenry where the government and police have the
guns and the citizens do not.
http://www.mercyseat.net/gun_genocide.html
As the authors note, the Bolsheviks were a minority of Communists in a vast
and disparate nation where Communists themselves were a tiny minority. It
should not be surprising that the Bolsheviks worked hard to ensure that any
person potentially hostile to them did not possess arms. [12]
The first Soviet gun controls were imposed during the Russian Civil War, as
Czarists, Western troops, and national independence movements battled the
central Red regime. Firearm registration was introduced on April 1, 1918.
[13] On August 30, Fanny Kaplan supposedly wounded Lenin during an
assassination attempt; the attempted assassination spurred a nationwide
reign of terror. [14] In October 1918, the Council of People's Commissars
(the government) ordered the surrender of all firearms, ammunition, and
sabres. [15] As has been the case in almost every nation where firearms
registration has been introduced, registration proved a prelude to
confiscation. Exempt from the confiscation order, however, were members of
the Communist Party. [16] A 1920 decree imposed a mandatory minimum penalty
of six months in prison for (non-Communist) possession of a firearm, even
where there was no criminal intent. [17]
After the Red victory in the Civil War, the firearms laws were consolidated
in a Criminal Code, which provided that unauthorized possession of a
firearm would be punishable by hard labor. [18] A 1925 law made
unauthorized possession of a firearm punishable by three months of hard
labor, plus a fine of 300 rubles (equal to about four months' wages for a
highly-paid construction worker). [19]
Stalin apparently found little need to change the weapons control structure
he had inherited. His only contributions were a 1935 law making illegal
carrying of a knife punishable by five years in prison and a decree of that
same year extending "all penalties, including death, down to
twelve-year-old children." [20]
This chapter of Lethal Laws summarizes the genocide perpetrated by Stalin
from 1929 to 1953, starting with his efforts to collectivize farming by
destroying the class of property-owning farmers. Altogether, about twenty
million people were murdered, worked to death in slave labor camps, or
deliberately starved to death by Stalin's government. From 1929 to 1939,
Stalin killed about ten million people, more than all the people who died
during the entirety of World War I. Stalin's successful campaign of
genocide against the Kulaks and against dissident Communists served as a
model for similar campaigns in China and Cambodia. [21]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV4LlS2SF_8
4:40 - 9:00
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 10:54 PM, Anubis <[email protected]> wrote:
> http://www.kyivpost.com/content/kyiv/police-tear-down-
> barricades-to-end-standoff-one-protester-dies-of-gunshot-
> wounds-335365.html
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