Gun Control Wounded Knee: When the Government Promised Safety Through Disarmament, and Delivered a Massacre Zion Patriot, September 2, 2025September 9, 2025 On December 29, 1890, the U.S. government showed the deadly cost of disarmament when it demanded guns be surrendered “for your own safety.” At Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota, federal troops surrounded a camp of Lakota Sioux and ordered them to surrender their firearms. Most complied. They trusted —…