… just a question of who does it work for.
Over at Howard Nemerov’s website, a little back and forth in one article’s comments lead to Howard writing a full follow-up article asking if civilian gun ownership causes bloodshed.
His conclusion? Gun control works:
Don’t like Jews or Catholics? Hitler disarmed them and then murdered millions in concentration camps, along with Gypsies, homosexuals, etc.
Hate Christians? After Uganda banned guns, 300,000 were rounded up and murdered.
Don’t like “smart” people? After banning guns, Cambodia rounded up and murdered over one million of them.
Hate people who disagree with you? After the Soviet Union established gun control, over 20 million dissidents were rounded up and killed.
Of course, if it works or not all depends whose side you’re wanting it to work for.
Howard continues:
By comparison, the Second Amendment has actually saved millions of lives. It also protects your right to religious freedom, your pursuit of happiness, and your opportunity for upward mobility. It raises the cost for thugs who want you rounded up and murdered.
It also shows that anybody who is against the civil right of self-defense is a person who hates your life, liberty, and happiness.
Why would you want to be disarmed before such a person?
Indeed, why would you?
For all those that love the protections 1A gives to the God-given rights enumerated therein, remember that it’s 2A that helps to preserve those rights. The facts of history bears this out.
Stuff From Hsoi 
Ouch. That certainly does spell it out in plain language, does it not? Unfortunately for the anti-rights advocates of the world, the history of “gun control” is replete with countless examples of nefarious people abusing the disarmed populace… and, often, ultimately killing them. People who refute that either do not adequately understand history, or are lying, or both.
I think most of the time it’s simple ignorance.
If you haven’t read Howard’s book, you should.