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Situations like China effectively exterminating populations they don’t like are why gun rights are so important. Order men to re-education camps and forcing their women to sleep in same bed as police/watchdogs gets a lot less appealing if the woman can shoot their government mandated rapist.

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Mao used a policy of "rifle taxes" to disarm the rest of the country, and I shouldn't have to repeat his single most famous quote.

Yeah, I cannot fathom the carnage and full blown civil war in Northwestern China if Uighers had guns.

Or maybe nothing would have happened because the CCP would have chosen not to use concentration camps on an armed population.

Yes, in the same way that nothing wrong happened during Cultural Revolution when armed factions of Red Guard fight with each other. Also, I'm not sure how you imagine small militia fighting with worlds biggest army.

All we know is that you are certain that the CCP would have crushed the Uighurs no matter how well armed they were. That’s all well and good.

My point is that a society which trusted all of its civilians to be armed would be very different from the communist China of today.

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