Tuesday, May 20, 2014
GUN CONTROL IN THE THIRD REICH
Halbrook concludes by noting that less government regulation and a tradition of rejecting tyranny could have led to a different outcome in Germany. Instead, systematic creation and manipulation of firearms registration and regulations, coupled with the decimation of individual citizen’s rights, enabled Hitler’s dictatorship and the slaughter of millions of innocent Jews and citizens of Nazi-occupied countries, as well as tens of thousands of Germans. It remains for all of us to wonder what might have been had people refused to register their firearms. Indeed, we should all take note and never forget.
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Probably an apple-to-turnip comparison to look at what happened in pre-WWII Germany and try to compare it to modern western civilization. The average German in '38-39 was tough, mentally and physically, and they damned well showed it over the next five or six years. That isn't the case now. The average Canadian or American is soft physically and mentally and cowardly to boot. He agrees that firearms should be banned because he's a sissy.
ReplyDeleteIt is a myth that the Nazis had a universal ban on civilian gun ownership. True, in 1938 they did ban Jews from owning guns, but by then the "final solution was already well underway. It is simply not credible to believe that isolated pockets of Jews could have held out against a war machine that killed 7-9 million armed Russian soldiers.
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