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Historical example in "Liberty Loving France"
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/20...nce-kill-648-men-women-and-lloyd-billingsley/
"Pierre Laval's crusade for a "gun-free France" wound up aiding the murderous National Socialist tyranny that slaughtered the 648 at Oradour-sur-Glane, hardly the only site of ...massacres. "
"This is what can happen when the people with all the power have all the guns. Moving forward, the struggle is all about memory against forgetting. "Vive la France libre! Vive l'Amérique libre!""
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/20...nce-kill-648-men-women-and-lloyd-billingsley/
- 1935 Pierre Laval, prime minister in 1935, decreed the registration of firearms for the first time in modern French history.
- 1940 Pierre Laval, deputy pm then, the government issued a decree demanding the surrender of all firearms and radio transmitters, on penalty of death. The French were also subject to the death penalty for failing to denounce someone who possessed guns.
- June 10, 1944, The attackers killed 245 women and 207 children
- 196 men killed
"Pierre Laval's crusade for a "gun-free France" wound up aiding the murderous National Socialist tyranny that slaughtered the 648 at Oradour-sur-Glane, hardly the only site of ...massacres. "
"This is what can happen when the people with all the power have all the guns. Moving forward, the struggle is all about memory against forgetting. "Vive la France libre! Vive l'Amérique libre!""