Common anarchist W.

Though it was the major socioeconomic group most supportive of the Bolsheviks, not even the urban working class was united behind the Soviet regime.

University of Virginia's Jeffrey Rossman:

Early gun control in the American North as a capitalist measure to disarming and disempower an organizing working class.

Japanese gun control begins as an elite method to suppress the peasantry (Kopel, 1992), is relaxed between 1910 and 1945 and then is reimposed by the American military occupation.

Homicide victims in Canada are very disproportionately Aboriginal, as are offenders.

New defense of a libertarian legal order.

In his 2001 monograph on the 20th century Pacific Northwest plywood worker cooperatives, Stanford University economist John Pencavel concurs with the general consensus the firms were probably more efficient than similar capitalist ones.

A common estimate is roughly 10% more productive.

Seeing like a state and the Bolshevik war on the peasantry: Soviet collectivization of agriculture as a scheme to better monitor and therefore extract surplus grain from producers.

External validity: some have claimed that the very presence of a gun causes aggression, using highly artificial laboratory experiments.

Even those are disputed and have failed to replicate multiple times, but more realistic studies find no such thing.

Uncontrolled correlation between support for gun control and education.

A Capstone project working from the General Social Survey found no independent link from education to gun control opinion for those under 50 years old, however.

Barack Obama tells us who "should write the rules" and "call the shots".

A frank statement from the then U.S. Under Secretary of Defense on how the end of the Cold War meant that America could now use its "military with impunity".

Lesser-known, often racist, Allied crimes against the Japanese, during World War II.

Weapons seized by the police in Edmonton, Canada.

I suppose the goal of Canadian gun control is for persons to be attacked with machetes and large hunting knives, not shot at or threatened with handguns.

Protectionism as empowering cartels likely to then push for war-making.

States dominated by concentrated interests inside a coalition, such as Imperial Germany and Japan, are typically more aggressive than democratic or unitary ones (such as the Soviet Union).