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Then there's the flip side about how many people died from state sanctioned violence in Europe since 1910 (and going back a long ways; see especially the Thirty Years War). We in the US only understand that from immigrants who wanted to escape that scene, as well as the usual media, and it is one of the primary motivations of a bunch of us pro-gun types.

Neal Knox, one of the top figures there in the last century, got his start at boot camp, where he heard an eyewitness story from a recent immigrant from the Netherlands. The Nazis went to a family's house where a handgun was registered to the homeowner but since he couldn't find it, they took the whole family and machine gunned them in the village/town square.



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