Innocents Betrayed (2003) - The Dark History Of Gun Control

Innocents Betrayed (2003)

"What happens when self-defense is against the law? What happens when the protectors become the predators? What happens when innocents are betrayed?”

Those are the questions this persuasive documentary asks and then answers, by examining a series of historical examples.

The film briefly covers some of the better-known democides of the last century, in chronological order. In each case it cites the laws used to first disarm these populations, underscoring that democide is a two-step process. First, populations are legally disarmed, sometimes deliberately with ill intentions and sometimes out of simple naivete. And second, a predatory government is either already in power or comes to power and takes advantage of the unarmed vulnerability of its enemies to kill them.

Nailing that point, case by case, is the film’s strength and purpose: gun control, well-intended or not, is a necessary precondition for democide. Despite all the controversy, it’s not very complicated. Armed people fight back; unarmed people don’t.

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