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what happens when self defense is
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against the law what happens when the
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protectors become the Predators what
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happens when innocence are betrayed
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imagine that two-thirds of all Americans
00:29
disappear a hundred and seventy million
00:32
people or that the countries of Germany
00:36
France and Spain are virtually wiped off
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the map a hundred and seventy million
00:42
people gone in the 20th century that’s
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how many innocents were slaughtered
00:51
tortured starved mutilated worked to
00:56
death bayonetted hanged uh nyah waited
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at the hands of their governments they
01:04
had no means to defend themselves
01:16
some may consider the position of this
01:19
film a little extreme they may think
01:23
that the idea of personal self-defense
01:25
against a killer government is an
01:27
extreme idea but in fact if you look at
01:31
the history of the world and certainly
01:33
the history of the 20th century you look
01:35
at the nations where the people had
01:36
power
01:37
they weren’t persecuted by their own
01:39
government if you look at the nations
01:41
where the people didn’t have power they
01:43
were subject to persecution and in
01:46
genocide after genocide in this film we
01:48
show exactly how that took place this
01:52
film does have a message it has a moral
01:54
of the story as it were it’s a
01:56
connection of three ideas betrayal of
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trust
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vicious cowardice and powerlessness of
02:03
victims any individual who acts in some
02:08
way to try to stop people from
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protecting themselves any individual who
02:13
would work to disarm people and
02:16
oftentimes that’s known as gun control
02:19
the idea that a person should not have
02:21
the tools to defend themselves anyone
02:23
who is willing to be part of the process
02:26
of rendering the citizens defenseless is
02:27
to blame the founding fathers fully
02:32
expected that Americans would be
02:34
prepared at all times to fight a
02:36
government when the government becomes
02:38
the enemy of the people
02:39
the founding fathers fully expected that
02:41
the people would rise up against that
02:43
government it’s right there in the
02:45
literature Alexander Hamilton wrote
02:47
about it in Federalist paper number 29
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James Madison considered the father of
02:52
our Constitution wrote about it in
02:53
Federalist paper number 46 they
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expressly expected that people would
02:58
take to arms and stop a government that
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went too far so they built into the
03:03
Constitution the 2nd amendment to be
03:05
sure that Americans would never become
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the disarmed subjects of this government
03:10
to make sure this government never
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became a killer government and to make
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sure that scenes we saw in this film
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never could take place in America
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every American maybe everyone in the
03:25
world but every American who who has any
03:27
interest at all in the future of a free
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nation of a safe nation of a prosperous
03:35
nation should also be a person who is
03:38
interested in how to preserve that kind
03:40
of nation and the way to preserve that
03:42
is to never give anybody more power than
03:46
the people have the warning sign on the
03:51
horizon now is this drift in America and
03:55
in Western civilization too downplaying
03:58
the importance of self-defense
04:00
the downplaying that that key value and
04:04
it that’s what this film is trying to
04:06
get across is that self-defense is the
04:09
job of the individual it’s not the job
04:11
of the authorities all the time the
04:14
individual ultimately has the duty and
04:16
the right and as we see Western
04:18
civilization moving away from that
04:20
trying to centralize the defence of the
04:22
society and take away the power from the
04:24
people to do that this movie shows the
04:27
history of what happens to people who’ve
04:29
been rendered powerless there are about
04:34
three things that we can’t really do
04:36
with this this documentary one of them
04:39
is to communicate the impact of actually
04:42
being there we show still photographs
04:46
and footage but it doesn’t really get
04:49
across what it’s like to be in the
04:52
presence of brutal murder what it’s like
04:55
to to see the dead eyes of the killer’s
04:58
in the killing squads what it’s like to
05:00
to see the panic and feel the fear in a
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persecution and an extermination we
05:06
can’t give you that right there up close
05:09
and personal another thing that we can’t
05:11
really get across is the sense of time
05:14
again we have short photos and video
05:17
that people can see but we can’t give
05:20
you the sense of what it’s like to live
05:21
day after day in dread and fear in a
05:25
persecution the endlessness of living in
05:28
a prison camp or the lifetime of scars
05:32
nightmares and
05:33
that survivors lived through that sense
05:36
of time we just can’t get it across as
05:38
well as we’d like another thing is the
05:41
pain of mind the the thoughts in the
05:45
minds of a survivor for example who
05:48
would replay over and over in his head I
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wish I’d seen the warning signs I wish I
05:53
could have done something about this I
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wish I’d had a weapon I wish I could
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have fought back I wish I could have
05:57
protected my family members who were
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killed or persecuted that that’s that
06:03
that pain of mine never goes away
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World War one is under way a new
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government has taken power over turkeys
06:24
crumbling Ottoman Empire the rulers say
06:28
they want to rid the country of wrong
06:29
and lawless ideas they want to protect
06:33
national security they decide to
06:35
eliminate the Armenians from Turkey
06:38
eliminate the Armenians by killing the
06:43
Armenians in February 1915 Turkey’s
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political leaders and Muslim religious
06:50
leaders make a detailed secret plan to
06:52
annihilate the largely Christian
06:54
minority to reduce opposition they lie
06:58
about their intentions the rumors
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proceed step by step the first move
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draft as many Armenian men as possible
07:07
into the Turkish army
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thousands report for duty the Armenian
07:13
soldiers are then separated from their
07:15
units and sent to labor camps where they
07:17
are work to death starved or murdered in
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groups far out of public view not all of
07:25
the men are gone however the next step
07:28
confiscate all weapons from Armenians
07:31
civilians finding many guns is not hard
07:35
turkey already has a gun control law
07:38
requiring gun owners to report
07:40
themselves to the government then comes
07:43
the order all Armenians must turn in
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their guns or face severe penalties
07:50
policemen and soldiers go from house to
07:53
house ransacking homes and torturing
07:55
people to get their guns
07:58
Armenians become so afraid of torture
08:00
that they buy guns from other Turks just
08:03
so they can have something for the
08:04
soldiers and policemen to take away on
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June 26 1915 the final stage of the
08:11
genocide begins the government
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Proclamation declares all Armenians will
08:18
be deported to remote camps
08:20
no exceptions Armenians have five days
08:24
to get ready they may bring only what
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they can carry armed guards gather the
08:31
Armenians mostly women children the old
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and the sick into groups of between 200
08:37
and 4,000 people to form convoys the
08:41
guards forced march the Armenians over
08:43
rough terrain and into the deserts
08:45
during the hot summer months people
08:48
dropped from exhaustion are killed by
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the guards are simply left to die
08:54
sometimes the guards shoot or cut to
08:56
pieces all the Armenians in a convoy
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fewer than one in ten survived the March
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and most of the survivors are butchered
09:05
in the end the death toll is staggering
09:09
as planned one and a half million
09:13
Armenians men women and children have
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been eliminated from the earth
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three-quarters of the Armenian
09:22
population of Turkey
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in the early 1930s the outside world
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believes the Soviet Union is a paradise
09:58
for workers and peasants but for
10:01
millions that paradise is hell in those
10:05
years the people of Ukraine the Volga
10:07
basin and the caucuses are being
10:10
deliberately starved to death
10:12
by their own government the groundwork
10:14
for that cold-blooded famine was laid
10:17
when the Communists came to power in
10:19
1917 almost immediately they passed a
10:23
series of laws making it nearly
10:25
impossible for non party members to own
10:28
firearms they use licensing laws to tell
10:32
them exactly who had guns and with that
10:35
information they confiscated firearms
10:39
penalties for possession of weapons
10:41
through more and more harsh the Soviet
10:45
leader Joseph Stalin fears enemies
10:48
everywhere but especially in Ukraine the
10:52
breadbasket of Europe Ukraine’s
10:55
prosperous farmers craved independence
10:58
Stalin craves their grain to pay for
11:02
industrial expansion in 1929 Stalin
11:06
decrees that all farmland livestock and
11:09
produce in the Soviet Union belong to
11:12
the state
11:13
farmers are ordered to surrender their
11:15
land and livestock and move to
11:17
government-owned collective farms but
11:20
first to terrify the rest into
11:23
submission several million of the most
11:25
prosperous farmers are sent to forced
11:28
labour or killed outright these kulaks
11:32
as the best farmers are called are
11:35
demonized and excluded from society
11:37
armed government thugs steal their
11:40
property sneering eat drink and be merry
11:44
for it all belongs to us next stalin
11:49
demands extraordinary quotas of grain
11:51
quotas no one could possibly meet quotas
11:55
enforced by soldiers with guns
11:58
many farmers rebel resistance is fierce
12:02
but because of 10 years of firearms
12:05
confiscations the helpless people can
12:08
fight back only with farm tools or
12:11
sabotage the worst is still to come
12:15
in 1932 Stalin takes the ultimate
12:19
revenge on those who dared oppose him
12:22
because Stalin controls all food
12:25
distribution he can cut off food
12:27
supplies and starve entire regions
12:30
because he controls all travel with
12:32
internal passports his secret police can
12:35
for starving millions to remain within
12:38
the devastated lands grain elevators
12:41
stand full but grain rots on the ground
12:44
as Stalin refuses to distribute food the
12:48
powerless people can do nothing to stop
12:50
their master catastrophe strikes and
12:54
lasts for two endless years spies watch
12:59
for anyone trying to take grain from the
13:01
fields anyone caught hiding food is
13:05
executed desperate families resort to
13:09
cannibalism
13:12
meanwhile the New York Times Pulitzer
13:15
prize-winning Moscow correspondent
13:17
Walter durante asurs the world that
13:20
there is no famine and Stalin dupes the
13:24
world by actually increasing the amount
13:26
of grain exported from the Soviet Union
13:29
the United States and the League of
13:32
Nations embrace and recognize the
13:35
prosperous Soviet Union from Moscow
13:39
Times reporter Durant he secretly
13:41
confides the truth to Western
13:44
governments that as many as 10 million
13:47
defenseless lives have been wiped out
13:50
with politically engineered starvation
13:53
as the murder weapon Chinese culture is
14:08
built on obligation and obedience the
14:11
individual serves family society and
14:14
state law governs the masses but rulers
14:18
stand above the law the people easily
14:21
become pawns 20th century China is
14:25
filled with turmoil and war in the early
14:28
years nationalist spy with communists
14:31
for political control by 1935 the
14:35
Nationalist government now in full power
14:38
prohibits private ownership of arms a
14:41
person can be punished even if he
14:44
violates the law unintentionally but the
14:47
new laws do not bring peace to the
14:50
disarmed and obedient citizens of China
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1942 244 4 million die in famines
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aggravated by government confiscation of
15:01
crops 1937 to 1949 the sino-japanese war
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man who refused to be drafted into the
15:12
Army are tortured mutilated and killed
15:16
many uncooperative soldiers are shot or
15:19
starved to death the toll another 4
15:23
million and in 1937 there is Nanking 225
15:30
thousand Japanese troops advance on the
15:33
city 300,000 Chinese soldiers flee
15:37
throwing down their weapons in the path
15:39
of the oncoming Japanese war machine
15:42
hundreds of thousands of children women
15:46
sick and old people are left to the
15:49
mercy of a merciless foreign invader
15:53
lacking any tradition of self-defense
15:55
and forbidden to own firearms the people
15:59
of Nanking are cornered and helpless
16:02
they are raped buried alive burned alive
16:06
used for bayonet practice and forced to
16:09
watch as their own organs are cut out of
16:12
them even a visiting Nazi observer is
16:15
horrified more misery is to come when
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the communist takeover in 1949 they
16:22
impose their own laws to discourage and
16:25
punish firearms ownership the most
16:29
harmless forms of gun ownership are
16:31
forbidden yet the communists themselves
16:35
are lawless under Chairman Mao’s drive
16:37
to produce an ideal society from the
16:41
agrarian reforms of the 1950s to the
16:44
Cultural Revolution near the end of
16:46
Mao’s reign men women and children are
16:51
treated as tools of the government or as
16:55
enemies of the state during 38 long
17:00
years communist violence and economic
17:03
experiments wipe out an additional 35
17:06
million Chinese and possibly as many as
17:10
100 million Chairman Mao said that guns
17:14
were the ultimate source of all
17:16
political power he controlled all the
17:20
gun
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January 1933 Hitler is elected to power
17:42
in Germany because of a gun registration
17:45
law passed just five years earlier he
17:48
already knows which Germans own firearms
17:50
Nazi government agents combine primitive
17:53
brutality with modern record-keeping to
17:56
conduct mass seizures of weapons from
17:58
political opponents violent raids and
18:02
obedient gun turnings also reduce
18:04
ordinary Germans to helplessness within
18:09
months the Nazis have firmly
18:11
consolidated their power but this is not
18:14
enough in 1938 they create their own gun
18:19
control law November 1938 Kristallnacht
18:27
the night of broken glass incited by
18:31
propaganda minister Goebbels and led by
18:34
Nazi government agents Germans commit a
18:37
nationwide attack against the Jews
18:40
shattering storefronts looting property
18:43
burning synagogues committing murder
18:48
the day after Kristallnacht the Nazis
18:52
forbid Jews to possess any firearm
18:54
clubbed or sharp edged weapon violators
18:59
face five years in a concentration camp
19:03
Jews turn in their weapons to the police
19:05
or the Nazi storm in after them stripped
19:10
of their power to resist Germany’s Jews
19:13
await slaughter technology helps the
19:16
Nazis make savagery efficient census
19:19
data and national ID cards tell them
19:22
exactly who is a Jew in a few days of
19:26
terror between 30,000 and 90,000 Jewish
19:30
men mostly community leaders are
19:32
arrested and sent to concentration camps
19:35
it is the beginning of the final
19:38
solution
19:40
the so-called Jewish problem now being
19:43
solved Hitler can focus on preparing for
19:46
World War all over Europe men and women
19:51
resist the Nazis not in Germany where
19:54
Hitler is able to find and seize their
19:57
weapons three million German political
20:01
opponents are imprisoned in
20:03
concentration camps between 1933 and
20:06
1945 more than 5 million Jews
20:11
slaughtered 1 million children gypsies
20:17
Slavs pacifists critics the disabled
20:24
more than 11 million total died in
20:28
concentration camps
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20:34
nearly 21 million civilians throughout
20:37
Europe perish at Hitler’s hands
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the kingdom of Cambodia has existed for
21:19
centuries but after 90 years under
21:21
French domination the country is in
21:24
chaos in 1975 following five years of
21:29
civil war the Communist Khmer Rouge
21:32
seized power led by dictator Pol Pot
21:36
they set about purifying the country
21:41
communist regimes elsewhere in the world
21:44
had aimed to establish paradise on earth
21:46
someday the Khmer Rouge want it now
21:51
their idea of paradise means eliminating
21:55
all religious leaders monks nuns priests
22:00
and preachers political enemies city
22:04
dwellers vietnamese and members of other
22:08
undesirable ethnic groups all traces of
22:12
Western cultural capitalism all students
22:16
and intellectuals professionals anyone
22:21
who can speak English or French or who
22:24
has more than a seventh grade education
22:27
merely wearing eyeglasses marks people
22:31
for death squads the Khmer Rouge don’t
22:40
need any new laws their will is the law
22:45
but ever since a series of earlier
22:48
uprisings Cambodia has had tight
22:51
restrictions on firearms ownership such
22:54
as laws restricting the number of
22:56
weapons and permits so strict that a
23:02
firearm owner can’t even loan a gun to a
23:05
family member
23:07
combined with Cambodia’s poverty and
23:10
nonviolent Buddhist traditions these
23:14
laws ensure that very few Cambodians own
23:17
firearms or are prepared for any form of
23:20
self-defense
23:22
anyone who fought against the Khmer
23:24
Rouge and any civilians who own firearms
23:26
are forced to disarm the moment Pol Pot
23:30
takes power
23:36
the defenseless people are unaware and
23:39
unready for what is to come the Khmer
23:43
Rouge forced mass evacuations of the
23:46
cities believing the evacuations will be
23:49
temporary
23:50
Cambodians neither resist nor take
23:53
enough food to survive the move is not
23:58
temporary the entire population of the
24:02
country those who are not slaughtered
24:05
outright is herded under collective
24:07
farms to labor without homes personal
24:11
possessions or families all of Cambodia
24:16
is turned into a concentration camp
24:18
brutally administered no one can receive
24:22
mail or phone calls books or skilled
24:26
medical care all human relationships are
24:30
shattered the simple act of saying a
24:33
kind word to a child is punishable by
24:36
death
24:41
the methodical evacuation and slaughter
24:44
fit well with Pol Pot’s goal to reduce
24:48
Cambodia’s population from 7 million to
24:52
about 1 million primitive agricultural
24:55
workers year by year for the next four
24:59
years the Khmer Rouge murder Cambodians
25:03
at a rate eight times higher than that
25:06
of Nazi Germany more than a quarter of
25:10
the country’s population dies before
25:12
Vietnamese troops invade with machine
25:15
guns helicopter gunships and tanks it
25:18
takes them only a month to put a stop to
25:21
the madness in Uganda 300,000 undefended
25:42
people die yet few outsiders care the
25:45
world turns its eyes away it is the
25:49
hidden genocide when Idi Amin comes to
25:52
power in 1971 the world’s political
25:55
leaders embrace him Amin overthrows
25:59
dictator Milton Obote Tay who had ban
26:02
political parties killed opponents and
26:05
enacted a socialist agenda a boaties
26:09
government had also passed laws
26:11
forbidding private citizens to possess
26:13
firearms only government officials and
26:17
other friends could get permission
26:21
a boat a had been unpopular and who
26:24
could be worse
26:25
surely not big strapping Idi Amin a
26:29
clown who sometimes jumps into swimming
26:32
pools in his full dressed generals
26:34
uniform but a mean is not merely worse
26:38
he is unspeakable he immediately orders
26:43
the slaughter of all soldiers whose
26:45
loyalty he doubts 16,000 men disappear
26:50
in the next few months
26:53
next amin claims that God has instructed
26:57
him to throw every Asian out of the
26:59
country then all the English people must
27:02
go Amin confiscates their businesses and
27:05
land to give to his cronies Uganda
27:08
plunges into chaos to prevent resistance
27:12
Ameen makes it illegal for three or more
27:15
people to be together if one of them is
27:18
armed firearms are seized at a means
27:21
whim a means personal agents run amok
27:25
they torture and cruelly mutilate their
27:28
targets mostly Christians rival tribes
27:31
people and anyone Amin or his soldiers
27:34
just happened to dislike the dead
27:37
include a university vice-chancellor and
27:40
Anglican bishop a Supreme Court justice
27:44
who dares rule against a means whims and
27:46
the Minister of the Interior who is
27:49
dismembered alive
27:51
death squads sometimes make victims lie
27:54
down in gutters to make their blood
27:56
easier to wash away most Ugandan ‘s have
28:00
no arms and no power to resist the
28:03
killer regime the orgy of slaughter
28:06
continues for eight years
28:10
in 1979 Amin is finally overthrown
28:14
Saudi Arabia welcomes him as a guess and
28:18
there he lives for decades in peace the
28:22
smiling monster never faces prosecution
28:25
for the death of 300,000 innocents 90%
28:43
of Rwanda ‘s population belongs to the
28:45
Hutu tribe about 9% are Tutsi the tribes
28:50
often intermarry
28:51
but rivalries have simmered especially
28:54
since Belgian colonial rulers in the
28:56
early 20th century gave political
28:59
authority to the Tutsi minority by 1994
29:05
a Hutu regime has been in power for many
29:08
years some Tutsis have threatened
29:11
rebellion and the government has
29:13
responded by calling all Tutsis rebels
29:16
the government has fueled a campaign of
29:19
hate preaching violence against Tutsis
29:23
state-controlled radio stations call for
29:25
the extermination of the Tutsi and in
29:29
April it begins
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29:34
the grave is only half-full one radio
29:38
station declares who will help us to
29:41
fill it thousands of murders help in an
29:46
unspeakable frenzy that lasts 100 days
29:50
government troops participate so two
29:54
armed Hutu gangs that have been issued
29:57
weapons for the purpose weapons are
30:01
sometimes crewed machetes axes
30:05
nail-studded clubs and blunt instruments
30:09
some attackers use firearms but the
30:14
helpless Tutsi and those who – who
30:16
oppose the government often have nothing
30:19
more than rocks laws and poverty have
30:22
kept the victims from getting weapons to
30:25
defend themselves the Ministry of
30:28
Defence controls permits for weapons and
30:31
keeps a registry of those few people
30:33
allowed to possess firearms the Minister
30:38
of Defense is also the chief organiser
30:40
of the nationwide killing campaign if
30:44
victims can find or make weapons equal
30:47
to those of their attackers then they
30:49
stand a chance of surviving in Kigali
30:53
province civilians huddle in a church
30:56
compound using rocks bows and arrows and
31:00
a single gun seized from a dead soldier
31:03
they hold off attackers for a week
31:06
eventually they are overwhelmed by
31:09
troops wielding grenades 5500 died in
31:14
one town the mayor urges villagers to
31:18
disarm saying the police will protect
31:20
them when they refuse he orders police
31:24
to shoot them
31:26
the war of rocks against bullets in that
31:29
town lasts three days in the end 20,000
31:35
townspeople are massacred across Rwanda
31:39
tens of thousands hide in schools and
31:42
churches they are besieged and beaten or
31:45
shot to death to catch people trying to
31:50
escape the killing roadblocks are set up
31:52
throughout the country
31:54
soldiers Czech national ID cards unarmed
31:59
defenseless people whose cards identify
32:02
them as Tutsi are slaughtered man woman
32:07
and child merely to be who you are is
32:11
punishable by death
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but of course these horrors struck other
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people far away people who are different
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from us countries that are different
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from ours surely it can’t happen here
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the United States at its best is a great
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nation yet here two people can become
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powerless targets they may suffer simply
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for being who they are it is the 19th
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century up to four million Americans are
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slaves entirely without rights a quarter
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of a million free blacks live among them
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many work to outlaw slavery a spirit of
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rebellion grows and among the white
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majority fear grows maintaining total
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control of slaves becomes an obsession
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America’s earliest disarmament laws are
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designed to keep one race and one race
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only helpless
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slaves rise in rebellion tension
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increases and states pass even more laws
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to control blacks in 1865 the North wins
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the War Between the States ending
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slavery forever
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three years later the 14th amendment
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extends full citizenship and equal legal
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protection to the former slaves that is
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the law extends equal protection in
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theory when states can no longer pass
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laws like this they pass laws like these
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instead to keep guns out of the hands of
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poor blacks disarmament does not bring
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peace or safety certainly not to blast
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between 1880 and 1965 mobs lynch nearly
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3,500 black people sometimes for serious
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crimes sometimes for mere insults
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against whites so-called respectable
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citizens snatch defenseless men from
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jails or from the streets they abuse
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torture mutilate and kill their victims
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yet defensive power sometimes prevails
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in Columbia South Carolina a
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fourteen-year-old girl stops the lynch
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mob from seizing a prisoner by holding
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the mob at bay with a revolver she
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doesn’t even know how to shoot today
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lynchings are a thing of the past but
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some things never change
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purchase a gun from a licensed dealer
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and even now you must reveal your race
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another group of people is stripped of
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its weapons with tragic consequences
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from the first arrival of Europeans and
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North Americans shores relations between
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whites and natives called Indians have
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been uneasy as settlers push further
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into Indian lands the situation boils
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each side commits and accuses the other
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of committing atrocities in 1864 US Army
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troops gunned down 150 Cheyenne and
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Arapaho members at Sand Creek in
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Colorado Territory most of the dead are
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women children and old people inevitably
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the better armed White’s overpower the
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tribes near the end of the century
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desperate Indians of many tribes adopt a
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new religion they believe if they
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perform a certain ritual called The
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Ghost Dance the whites will be magically
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swept away in late 1890 the Ghost Dance
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sweeps the reservations of the Lakota
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Sioux White’s fear the Lakota are
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planning a war and try to force the
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ghost dancers to halt although many
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Sioux give up their religion some bands
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refuse the army is called in to
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transport the ghost dancers out of the
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territory in December 1890 the last band
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of dancers is pinned at Wounded Knee
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Creek ordered by the army they hand over
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a few dozen rifles but believing the
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whites plan to kill them young men hide
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weapons while the soldiers searched the
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camp a medicine man begins the Ghost
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Dance
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the soldiers think he is giving a signal
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to attack somewhere in the band of
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Indians someone discharges a rifle
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the army opens fire the battle is over
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after just ten minutes of heavy fire but
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soldiers pursue the retreating Indians
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and gun down everyone they find the
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bodies of women babies and old men are
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scattered as much as three miles from
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the battlefield when governments fear
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the people disarmament often follows the
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law may target one group but other
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individuals pay the consequences World
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War two President Roosevelt issues an
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executive order authorizing the War
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Department to exclude any and all
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persons from vast military zones the
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order doesn’t identify any group but
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everyone understands it means people of
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Japanese ancestry
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of the hundred and ten thousand who are
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rounded up and sent to camps more than
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two-thirds are American citizens they
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have committed no crimes being citizens
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doesn’t protect them they are disarmed
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as enemy aliens
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ironically the US government soon
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recruits young japanese-american men
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from these camps and the young men go on
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to become part of one of the most highly
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decorated infantry regiments to fight in
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World War two some German and Italian
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Americans are also taken to camps
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without being accused of any crime those
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in prison include american-born children
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like the Japanese those sent to camps
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are disarmed some US citizens are even
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deported to Germany
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when they have defense tools equal to
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those of attackers
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people have the power to protect
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themselves once powerless people can
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fall victim to any aggressor at any time
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October 16 1991 a bright sunny day in
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Killeen Texas a crowded coffee shop
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young doctors Susanna Gracia is lunching
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with her parents she often carries a
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sidearm for self-defense but today she
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has left the gun in her car in the
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parking lot because it is illegal for
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her to keep the weapon in her purse
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she’s afraid she’ll lose her license to
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practice if she’s caught with it
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Suzanna Gracia is about to lose
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something much more precious a truck
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crashes through the window a man leaps
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out and methodically begins shooting
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customers to death Suzanna reaches for
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her purse then she remembers
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self-defense is a hundred feet away and
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the police can’t come for endless
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minutes Suzanna can only watch and then
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scramble desperately through a window as
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her father and mother are murdered 23
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people died on a bright sunny noon at
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Luby’s cafeteria on the early morning of
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August 23rd 2000 the children of John
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and Tiffany carpenter are alone in their
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rural California home all five carpenter
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children know how to shoot
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but California law requires that guns be
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locked away from children
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with her sisters and brothers still in
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bed fourteen-year-old Jessica enters the
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family kitchen where a half-naked
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stranger awaits her with a pitchfork the
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stranger has barricaded the doors and
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windows he has cut the phone line there
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is nothing to stop him stalking down the
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hallway he begins stabbing 13-year old
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Anna
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youngest sister Ashley just nine years
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old leaps into the hall and draws the
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madman away horribly wounded
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Ashley dives at his leg screaming for
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her sister’s to go go go the girls all
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think of the gun but they can’t use it
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to save Ashley or their little brother
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the three oldest girls escape they
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rushed to a neighbor’s house and plead
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for his rifle but the neighbor says no
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saying the government would take his gun
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away by the time police arrived Ashley
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is dead from a hundred and thirty eight
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pitchfork wounds to her face chest and
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neck
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seven-year-old John William also lies
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dead stabbed 46 times once people accept
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being disarmed they become surprisingly
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easy to control and to kill they have
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surrendered not only their weapons but
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their independence when innocents are
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rendered so defenseless the guilty can
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slaughter them with the most ordinary of
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weapons a club a knife a pitchfork
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or these
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you
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as a kid growing up
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Tucson Arizona I was raised by my
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grandmother most of her friends were
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Holocaust survivors and I learned at an
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early age that there’s there was always
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something very wrong with the picture if
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I can put it that way
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you always saw stacks of bodies at the
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death camps but none of those bodies
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were holding a gun but next to the body
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she might see a Nazi soldier holding a
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gun so it became pretty obvious to me
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and perhaps in my Arizona environment
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that a lack of being able to defend
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one’s life had an awful lot to do with
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making it possible for governments to
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kill you I thought this was a story that
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had to be told it’s a story that most
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people do not understand it’s it’s a
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history lesson that most people are not
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getting in school and the best way to
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tell people in America is to make a
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visual presentation so if expecting them
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to read a book so we set out on telling
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people information that lots of folks
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with it would rather they not know and
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among them are folks who were supporting
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gun control schemes and we wanted people
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to understand the downside of gun
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control the sight of gun control you
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never hear about on the six o’clock news
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and to bring all this information
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together over the years and be able to
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put it into a visual presentation
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another fascinating experience but I
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think we finally have put the right
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package together to help people see that
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how evil gun control is and why do they
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have to read a book now to see the
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foundation of a genocide the steps that
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are taken no longer they have to read
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books although I wish they would but to
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to grasp the big picture it’s all here
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now that’s it’s within the film
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I think this documentary has the
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potential to save lots of lives
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and it may only be about an hour long
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but it’s an hour that can change the
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course of human civilization in my
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opinion
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because the more people who understand
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how the game is played if I can phrase
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it that way the more people who
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understand how dictatorships come into
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power I think and the more people we can
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convince to be armed and then I think
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the more people will be able to save and
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if we can save more human lives and that
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means there’ll be more people will be
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able to control government and never
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again will people fear their government
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and that’s a key to preventing future
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genocides I’m hoping that people who
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decide to watch this film are those that
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are concerned about the preservation of
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life people who realize that they are
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their own first line of self-defense
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people who do not want to be victims by
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an oppressive government people who are
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opposed to police states dictatorships
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tyrannies people who really care about
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their families I hope that people who
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will already believe in gun ownership
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will watch this documentary so that they
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can tell others about the evils of gun
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control schemes they can help others
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understand how Horrors happen to people
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who are defenseless well my goal for the
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people to see this films to help them
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have the knowledge the information of
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the history of gun control and how it
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has been so horrible and how it has
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brought about so many tyrannies and
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police states and dictatorships and of
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course genocide and I think that people
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need to think about how horrible that
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these situations have been and I ask
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people to imagine a world that is free
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from genocide and it’s and then imagine
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a world that there because there is no
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gun control
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there is no death by government you know
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producing this documentary had some high
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points and some low points and one of
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the most disheartening areas was dealing
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with so-called humanitarian groups
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they always go to the public and say gee
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we want to help save life send us money
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and when we went to one of these large
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humanitarian groups the United Nations
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and asked to use some of their
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photographs of Rwanda and Uganda they
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initially said yes but then they
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realized that we were opposed to gun
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control and they made it very clear they
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would not work with us because we
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believe in the preservation of firearms
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ownership and so my message to people
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concerning humanitarian groups is that
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if you want to give them money that’s
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all well and good but maybe you should
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just ask what their position is on
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firearms ownership because most of them
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do support victim discernment policies
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that make police states dictatorships
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and genocide possible well I think is a
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very clear message in this film for
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American military personnel and it’s a
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message that they unfortunately don’t
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get in high school before they go into
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service I’m not so sure it’s even a
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message they get while they’re in the
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military but one of the reasons American
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military personnel are put in harm’s way
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by being sent to foreign lands is that
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the people in those lands fear their
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government because they can’t control
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their government their government has
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gone bad their government may be killing
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them and all of this came about largely
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because the people are defenseless which
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means they don’t have access to firearms
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I think September 11th was a good
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example of the uselessness and the
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futility of gun control laws when you
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think about how several hate-filled
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terrorists were able to take over
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aeroplanes using box cutters and pocket
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knives and they got away with it they
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were able to murder thousands of people
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because no one on these planes was able
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to defend their life no one had a gun
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and I think that this is a lesson that
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is not being learned in America or
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throughout the world if you want to stop
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criminals you have to speak to criminals
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in a language they under
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stand and if they want to be violent
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against you you have to use violence
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against them and I think the
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government’s do get scared and it’s
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dangerous for people because when
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governments get scared they do scary
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things and that’s what we have seen time
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and time again throughout history the
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Communists were afraid of the people the
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Nazis were afraid of the people every
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dictator every police state every
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tyranny fears the people and so people
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should always be very fearful of
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government there’s a saying you know
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that armed society is a polite society I
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grew up in an armed society in the
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Arizona desert and it was very polite
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and so there’s a lot of truth to that
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expression and I think that America
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would be a lower crime country if I can
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put it that way that the people in
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America would be safer if they were able
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to defend themselves
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