01-25-2013, 08:34
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Occupied America....
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Originally Posted by Dusty
If guns were never invented, and all we had were swords, they'd be trying to confiscate the swords. Power and control.
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The Rwanda example has been brought up elsewhere... Swords, according to this data set, was only 0.1%
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Machetes and Firearms: The Organization of Massacres in Rwanda
Philip Verwimp
Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, and Households in Conflict Network, p.verwimp@hicn.org
Abstract
This article is a quantitative study of the use of machetes and firearms during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, Kibuye Prefecture. The machete is an agricultural tool owned by most Rwandan households and is believed to have been the prime instrument of killing during the genocide.
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The data were collected from 1996 to 1999 and contain information on the deaths of 59,050 victims.
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Machete 52.8%
Club 16.6%
Gun, rifle 14.7%
Grenade 1.8%
Drowned 1.4%
Hoe, hack 0.8%
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Link here
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