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  • Democide: Understanding the State’s Monopoly on Violence and the Second Amendment

    11/09/2020 9:15:17 AM PST · by ammodotcom · 2 replies
    Ammo.com ^ | 11/9/2020 | Sam Jacobs
    Gun control is predicated on the belief that private citizens cannot be trusted with firearms. That the state should have a "monopoly on violence" because it is less violent than individuals. And that firearms should be taken away from private citizens because only the state is responsible enough to handle them. There is, however, a major problem with this: States are statistically far more violent than individuals. After all, in the 20th century alone, 262 MILLION people died at the hands of their own governments. The term for this sort of atrocity is “democide.” It is one of the reasons...