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What’s the Number One Killer of People?

By Eowyn @DrEowyn

It’s not cigarettes.

It’s not cholesterol.

It’s not cancer.

And it’s not privately-owned guns.

The Number One Killer of people is . . .

Government

Political scientist R. J. Rummel calls it Democide: “”the murder of any person or people by a government, including genocide, politicide and mass murder.” In the 20th century, democide passed war as the leading cause of non-natural death.

H/t my friend Robert K. Wilcox

~Eowyn


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