"Contemporary scholars have little explored the preconditions of……" — Daniel D. Polsby

Contemporary scholars have little explored the preconditions of genocide. Still less have… - Daniel D. Polsby

"Contemporary scholars have little explored the preconditions of genocide. Still less have they asked whether a society's weapons policy might be one of the institutional arrangements that contributes to the probability of its government engaging in some of the more extreme varieties of outrage. Though it is a long step between being disarmed and being murdered-one does not usually lead to the other-but it is nevertheless an arresting reality that not one of the principal genocides of the twentieth century, and there have been dozens, has been inflicted on a population that was armed."

— Daniel D. Polsby

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The weapons-violence hypothesis is far too simplistic a basis on which to base sound public policy.

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