Zimbabwe gun control

Dave Kopel calls Zimbabwe the one of the most evil government in all of African history. They are revoking licenses for all automatic rifles and some pistols.

Zimbabwe's dictatorship has a long practice of using gun controls, many of which were inherited from British colonial rule, to ensure that victims of its barbaric abuses of human rights are unable to resist.

Unfortunately, this has nothing to do with the war on terror, so I doubt the US is going to act in any grand way to abate the slaughter of many innocent people, which is sure to happen now that they definitely can't defend themselves.
President Bush on Zimbabwe:

THE TIMES: Mr President, one country there’s a little concern about, as you know, in Britain, particularly, is Zimbabwe.

PRESIDENT BUSH: Yeah.

THE TIMES: Which is headed by a brutal tyrant.

PRESIDENT BUSH: Yes, he is.

I think I’ve called him that. He’s ruined a wonderful country, a country that used to not only feed Africa — in other words, an exporter of food — and now an importer of food, because of (his) decisions.

THE TIMES: Should it be the responsibility of other African countries to do more to isolate that country, and should you make what they do a condition of rich countries giving them aid? And they don’t seem to take this seriously.

PRESIDENT BUSH: I think we ought to use the fact that we’re working in partnership with countries as an opportunity to convince Mugabe to make different decisions. On the other hand, I don’t think we ought to allow his tyranny to cause others to suffer on the continent of Africa. But I do think we ought to continue to speak clearly about the decisions he has made. And I do.

Which is all it appears we are going to do for now. Speak clearly about the decisions he has made.