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Do
you think these 55,000,000 plus people, if they were alive
today, would push the Gun Control agenda?
How
far do you think Hitler would have gotten if he had been
met with armed resistance at every turn?
The
following reported killing numbers come from R.J. Rummel,
a political scientist at the University of Hawaii who studies
mass killing and wrote an article in the Encyclopedia of
Genocide, 1999. Rummel's genocide figures are more inclusive
than some--in fact, he prefers the term "democide," which
he defines as "the murder of any person or people by a government,
including genocide, politicide, and mass murder." Genocide
is killing due to ethnicity, religion, or other "indelible
group membership," whereas politicide is murder for political
reasons. Democide excludes deaths due to war (36.5 million
between 1900 and 1987) and reckless but not purposely murderous
government policies--for example the loss of over 20 million
Chinese during the famine of 1959-'62, which was caused
by the failure of the Great Leap Forward. Defining terms
this way puts the slaughter by the National Socialist German
Workers’ Party in perspective.
The
following are Rummel's 12 most murderous regimes (from his
article in the Encyclopedia of Genocide, 1999):
(1)
USSR, 62 million deaths, 1917-'87;
(2)
People's Republic of China, 35 million, 1949-'87;
(3)
Germany under the National Socialist German Workers’ Party,
21 million, 1933-'45;
(4)
nationalist China, 10 million, 1928-'49;
(5)
Japan, 6 million, 1936-'45;
(6) pre-revolutionary Chinese communists ("Mao Soviets"),
3.5 million, 1923-'49;
(7)
Cambodia, 2 million, 1975-'79;
(8) Turkey (Armenian genocide), 1.9 million, 1909-'18;
(9)
Vietnam, 1.7 million, 1945-'87;
(10)
Poland, 1.6 million, 1945-'48;
(11)
Pakistan, 1.5 million, 1958-'87;
(12)
Yugoslavia, 1.1 million, 1944-'87.
Three
additional "suspected megamurderers," as Rummel puts it,
are North Korea, 1.7 million deaths, 1948-'87; Mexico, 1.4
million, 1900-'20; and czarist Russia, 1.1 million, 1900-'17.
Information supplied by Rex Curry
NEW
NUMBERS FROM THE NRA TOTAL that during the 20th century,
governments murdered 169 million.
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