Daniel D. Polsby Quotes:
Life: b. 1945
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.
source: "Armed against genocide" by Glenn Reynolds, www.theguardian.com. March 20, 2006. 
topic: Gun, Reality, Government, Arresting
