In strict gun-controlled and police-state Russia, they have semi-regular incidents of terrorism and mass murder (and their murder rate floats from 10x the U.S., to just a little higher). A lot of the problems are rebels and organized crime, but the point is gun control doesn't cure societal problems.
Mass_Murders, Russia • [8 items]
| Holodomor1932 Victims: 5,000,000 (5,000,000 / 0) Tools: Starvation |
Joseph Stalin (54) - 🇷🇺 Ukraine, Russia: Holodomor means "to kill by starvation". Joseph Stalin used a planned/managed famine to eliminate a Ukrainian independence movement by killing them off. While friends of Stalin New York Times (with Moscow Bureau Cheif Walter Duranty) was facilitating it by covering it up. Duranty kept his Pulitzer Prize, and neither Pulitzer nor NYT did the honorable thing. | Cause: Govt Motive: ⬅️ Left 🚫 Strict Gun Control |
| Beslan School Shooting2004 Victims: 1,141 (368 / 783) Tools: Assault Rifles, Bombs |
🇷🇺 Beslan, Russia: Despite having some of the strictest gun controls in the world, Chechen separatists took over a school with automatic weapons, and took 1,100 hostages, kept them in the auditorium rigged with explosives. Russian security forces stormed the building hard -- and 334 civilians (186 kids) were killed, as were the 34 hostage takers. | Cause: ☪️ Islamic Terrorism Motive: Freedom Fighters 🚫 Strict Gun Control |
| Moscow Theater2002 Victims: 871 (171 / 700) Tools: Assault Rifles, Bombs |
🇷🇺 Moscow, Russia: Chechens took approximately 850–900 Hostages at a Dubrovka Theater. Russian Spetsnaz pumped toxic gas (fentanyl derivative) killing 40 insurgents and 130 hostages and took over the Theater (ending the hostage crisis). Another couple hundred died over the next year likely complications due to the toxic gas. | Cause: Chechen Rebels Motive: Revenge 🚫 Strict Gun Control |
| Budyonnovsk hospital crisis1995 Victims: 732 (191 / 541) Tools: Assault Rifles, Bombs |
🇷🇺 Budyonnovsk, Russia: Despite having some of the strictest gun controls in the world, in a police state, Chechen islamic separatists ☪️ came inland over 70 miles, killing over 191 people, and took up to 2,500 hostages in a hospital with automatic weapons, to force Russia into peace talks. | Cause: ☪️ Islamic Terrorism Motive: Freedom Fighters 🚫 Strict Gun Control |
| Katyr-Yurt Bombing2000 Victims: 726 (363 / 363) Tools: Assault Rifles, Bombs |
🇷🇺 Katyr-Yurt, Russia: Russian forces bombed the village and a refugee convoy under white flags killing up to 363 people, and injuring at least that many more people. Of course the European Court ruled it was a war crime, then did nothing about it. | Cause: Govt. Motive: Revenge 🚫 Strict Gun Control |
| Metrojet Flight 92682015 Victims: 224 (224 / 0) Tools: Airplane, Bomb |
🇷🇺 Saint Petersburg, Russian airline on route from Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt to Saint Petersburg, Russia had a bomb go off, the plane desintigrated, and all 224 passengers and crew died. However, while Russian/Egyptian investigators said it was a bomb, the Russian courts said it wasn't proven, so they didn't have to pay the victims families. | Cause: Terrorism Motive: ❓Unknown 🚫 Strict Gun Control |
| Kerch Polytechnic2018 Victims: 91 (21 / 70) Tools: Shotgun, Bomb |
Vladislav Roslyakov (18) - 🇷🇺 Kerch (Crimea), Russia: Despite having some of the strictest gun controls in the world, in a police state, an 18 year old was able to get a shotgun and some home made grenades and kill 20, injure 70 others because he hated the school his parents made him go to. | Cause: 🤪 Mental Health Motive: Revenge 🚫 Strict Gun Control |
| Grozny Clashes (2014)2014 Victims: 70 (32 / 48) Tools: Assault Rifles, Bombs |
🇷🇺 Grozny, Russia: Islamist militants (in three vehicles) occupied a press building and an abandoned school. Spetsnaz launched a counter-terrorism attack with armored vehicles, 14 policemen, 11 militants and 1 civilian were killed. Add this to another 6 dead and 12 injured the month before, and you're getting quite a body count. Good thing they have gun control, or it might have gotten bad. | Cause: ☪️ Islamic Terrorism Motive: Freedom Fighters 🚫 Strict Gun Control |
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