Notice how the author completely glosses over the fact that those who were targetd for execution were the folks who were barred from having firearms.
He makes that sound totally irrelevant. He also makes it sound like being disarmed before the really evil people take power makes the fact of being disarmed irrelevant to being helplessly slaughtered.
Apparently it's possible to attain almost any scholastic degree without even a small child's understanding of cause and effect. All phenomena are entirely isolated events. You may have knocked that glass over but that has nothing to do with the water on the floor.