“Ideologues have created far more horrors than have even the most rampant of business villains. My understanding is that Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot and Mao Tse Tung were not motivated by profits.”
– Fred Smith
To which I would add they were also not motivated by religion, which is frequently cited by left-leaning folks as the cause of $huge percentage of wars. For the actual stats on 20th century murders see here.
- Bosnia-Herzegovina: 1992-1995 – 200,000 Deaths
- Rwanda: 1994 – 800,000 Deaths
- Pol Pot in Cambodia: 1975-1979 – 2,000,000 Deaths
- Nazi Holocaust: 1938-1945 – 6,000,000 Deaths
- Rape of Nanking: 1937-1938 – 300,000 Deaths
- Stalin’s Forced Famine: 1932-1933 – 7,000,000 Deaths
- Armenians in Turkey: 1915-1918 – 1,500,000 Deaths
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That page on the Holocaust only addresses Jewish deaths. The actual count was 11,000,00 or so, when you add in the gays, mentally and physically disabled, and other undesirables.
“when you add in the gays, mentally and physically disabled, and other undesirables.”
Please keep in mind that the hardliners on the left have it in for us gunnies in the same way as “undesireables” is being used in your sentence. They’d not be in any sort of moral outrage if dubious laws were passed to round us all up and put us in the Gulag to rot, just for owning guns.
DO NOT underestimate these people.