[swilhelm73]

An oldy but a goodie. 6426

[Bronco_Buster_FweetHyagh]

Seems to me that abortion as a form of birth control has killed more people than anything else...

[Paleo Conservative]

WAR ISN'T THIS CENTURY'S BIGGEST KILLER

Shouln't that be, "last century's biggest killer"?

[Doomonyou]

"Table 1"

[AgThorn]

oldie but goodie but missing tables that are referenced ... kinda key to understanding the article (see table 1 below). Interesting writeup, but I would think that the centuries biggest killer is actually abortion ... just sort of scan read this so far, but I don't see any reference to that genocide contained in this article ... sad if it isn't. Was '86 too soon for abortion statistics to be known to be as bad as they are?

[Blood of Tyrants]

It was Roosevelt's and Truman policies to force people who had escaped the clutches of Stalin back to Russia and their deaths.

[Damagro]

15 million battle deaths of World War II

That's an awfully low estimate. The term "battle deaths" has to be pretty narrowly defined to come up with 15 million out of 70 million

[tcostell]

I'm giving this thread a long overdue BTTT because there has been so much discussion about the 2nd amendment lately. If the Chinese and Ukrainian peasants who were starved by their Communist masters had been armed, the results would have been quite different then they were.

This is the meaning and reason for the Second Amendment to the Constitution. Because our founders knew that the most likely threat to our well being was not some far off nation or a group of psychotic religious zealots, but our own government, and they wanted to empower us to resist it if it became necessary.

The author's estimates state that in the 20th century, roughly 36,654,000 people were killed in wars,but a breathtaking 169,202,000 were killed by their own government in the 20th century. The author is a liberal academic who is somewhat fast and loose with how attributes responsibility for the deaths, but this is all the more reason to believe and understand the relevant data.