In the words of fascist dictators themselves:
Hitler: "The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms."
Stalin: "If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves."
Mao: "All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns."
Mussolini: "I gave the categorical order to confiscate the largest possible number of weapons of every sort and kind."
Castro: "Guns? For what?"
Russia's murder rate until recently was four times higher than the US despite having some of the strictest gun laws in the world. They finally responded by allowing citizens to own firearms for self-defense because gun control clearly didn't work.
Bonus stats:
The nine European nations with the lowest rates of gun ownership (5,000 or fewer guns per 100,000 population) have a combined murder rate
three times higher than that of the nine nations with the highest rates of gun ownership (at least 15,000 guns per 100,000 population).
Norway has the highest rate of gun ownership in Western Europe, yet possesses the lowest murder rate. In contrast, Holland’s murder rate is nearly the worst, despite having the lowest gun ownership rate in Western Europe.
http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/...useronline.pdf