Posted on 10/14/2015 7:54:04 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
Yes, war is hell, but government without restraint, murder by government, can be more hellish than any combat. At least in combat you have a chance. With guns, we are ‘citizens’. Without them, we are ‘subjects’.
Democide: The murder of unarmed, helpless men, women and children by a government, including genocide, politicide, and mass murder. This does NOT include combatants killed during times of war.
In all of history, the most prolific mass murderers are not the Jeffrey Dahmers, Jack the Rippers, movie-theater crazies or insane campus shooters. By far, it is government, much more common than war.
Prior to the 20th century (30 B.C. - 1900AD), murder by government, or democide, accounts for, by the best hypothetical estimates, a conservative 133 million people dead. That figure includes: China, the Mongols, Iran (Persia), slavery of Africans (1451-1870), India, The Ottoman Empire, Japan, Russia, Aztecs, French Revolution, Spanish Inquisition, etc.
During the 20th century alone, according to hawaii.edu, government killed approximately 262 million people. Among the culprits: China, USSR, colonialism, Germany, Japan, Cambodia, Turkey, Vietnam, Uganda, Guatemala, Poland, Pakistan, Yugoslavia, North Korea and Mexico (1900-1920).
Good article. If the patriots at the Bundy Ranch had not been armed we might have seen the start here in the USA.
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Branch Davidians in Waco.
Branch Davidians in Waco.
The Oklahoma City Bombing put that war to rest early.
Stealing message for my tagline.
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