I cooked with this. Still true
As a kid you’re anti-guns (guns are literally made to kill people, why should anyone have them!?) until you read about or live through enough stuff like this.
- 1933 Nazi germany confiscates all firearms (found and collected using firearm registration records required by a 1928 law)
- Consolidation of power by adolf hitler and complete suppression of political opponents
- 1929 law in Soviet Union makes private gun ownership illegal
- Jospeh Stalin implements “great purge” millions of people (inclusing political dissidents) arrested, exiled, and executed
- 1949 Communist Party of China implements strict gun control
- Mao Zedong enforces Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution, over 40 million people die
- Myanmar 1962, strict gun control laws enforced
- the Junta establish authoritarian regime that lasts decades (marked ofc by severe repression and human rights abuses)
- 1975 Khmer Rouge disarm civilians in Cambodia
- Pol Pot carries out mass executions and atrocities from 1975 to 1979
- 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran, new regime imposes strict gun control measures
- Iranian government uses these laws to consolidate power and suppress political opposition, establishing authoritarian theocracy (ongoing)
- Zimbabwe 1980, government led by Robert Mugabe enacts strict gun control measures
- Regime becomes increasingly authoritarian, using the disarmament to suppress political opposition and maintain control
- 1994, Rwandan government enforces strict gun control laws, limiting access to firearms for civilians
- Rwandan Genocide results in deaths of ~800,000 Tutsis and Hutus, who had no way to defend themselves
- 2012 “Control of Arms, Munitions, and Disarmament Law” in Venezuela
- Increased authoritarian control and suppression of political opposition under Nicolás Maduro from 2013 to right now
And bro I’m not even mentioning all of them