Ben Carson Blames Holocaust On Gun Control

Why do you leftist love dead babies, but get excited when a new bacteria (life ) is discovered? You're also a Jew hater, who longs for dead Jews, and Israel's destruction

fetuses aren't babies. The women they are in don't consider them babies.

and frankly, you need to stop going to your "persecution complex" every time you are losing an argument.

"WHy do you hate me?" is what a five year old says when it's been scolded, it's really not an argument an adult should make.

I call out all the haters. White racists, black racist, and Jew haters. It's not a personal thing. You've got psychological issues to have to deal with. Your amnesty towards Jews generally is irrational, and a form of psychos. Get some help boy:cuckoo: ,
 
Six million armed Jews could have kicked some serious Nazis ass but that didn't happen because the National Socialist didn't allow the Jews to have weapons.

Just like the Democrat Party doesn't want the American people to have the ability to keep and bear arms.

More gun nut fantasy

Women, Children and Old men do not make much of an army

Neither does a random assembly of gun owners with no leadership, no safe harbor , no logistics or supplies and no training

The Germans would have characterized the armed horde of Jews as terrorists and nobody would have offered them any assistance


We aren't just talking about armed Jews either.......we are talking about the rest of the populations of the countries occupied by the Germans....who then handed over their citizens to the Germans for murder......

We have not had an incidence of a well armed general population that had been victims of genocide by their government....all genocide happens to unarmed, defenseless people......

And as to Germany...the nazis used the gun control laws from 1920 and 28 to disarm their opposition...so when they sent their thugs out to beat people up, and destroy their businesses, no one could stop them...they had complete free reign and the will to terrorize helpless people....

As we saw in Ferguson.....during the riots...businesses that had armed guards...were not looted or destroyed.....or burned to the ground.

The nazis were able to murder and intimidate their unarmed political opponents and that made everyone else back down......and then they kept consolidating their power.

A general armed population isn't going to put up with that crap.....

And that is why we have the 2nd Amendment...it keeps small, violent groups, and larger ones, like the democrats, from using violence to suppress their opposition.

More gun nut fantasies of fighting off Hitler with your trusty hunting rifle

Totally clueless as to what it takes to comprise a modern military force


You should probably tell that to the Iraqis and the Afghanis.....they just sort of drove us out....with small arms and bombs......you know...the U.S. the most advanced military on the face of the planet..........boy, you guys are stupid.

It comes down to...is it worth it?

We never should have been in either country
 
The Anti-Defamation League says these sorts of comments are "historically inaccurate and offensive."

Ben Carson, a candidate for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, blamed the Holocaust on Nazi gun control in an interview on CNN Thursday.

Host Wolf Blitzer read a section from Carson's book, A More Perfect Union, in which Carson writes:

German citizens were disarmed by their government in the late 1930s, and by the mid-1940s Hitler's regime had mercilessly slaughtered six million Jews and numerous others whom they considered inferior ... Through a combination of removing guns and disseminating deceitful propaganda, the Nazis were able to carry out their evil intentions with relatively little resistance.​

"I think the likelihood of Hitler being able to accomplish his goals would have been greatly diminished if the people had been armed," Carson elaborated in the interview. "There's a reason these dictatorial people take the guns first."

The Anti-Defamation League, which monitors and responds to anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry, has long opposed the use of Nazi comparisons in the U.S. gun control debate. "The idea that supporters of gun control are doing something akin to what Hitler’s Germany did to strip citizens of guns in the run-up to the Second World War is historically inaccurate and offensive, especially to Holocaust survivors and their families," Abraham Foxman, the ADL's national director at the time, said in 2013.

Conservatives have a history of comparing gun control advocates to Hitler and the Nazis. The ADL's 2013 comments were provoked by The Drudge Report's choice to use an image of Hitler to illustrate news that President Barack Obama was pursuing limited gun control measures after 20 first-graders and six school staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, were murdered by a gunman.

Many historians disagree with the idea that armed German Jews could have prevented the Holocaust. And as Alex Seitz-Wald, a journalist then writing for Salon, explained in 2013, the full story of Nazi gun regulation is more complicated than Carson and his ilk might like:

University of Chicago law professor Bernard Harcourt explored this myth in depth in a 2004 article published in the Fordham Law Review. As it turns out, the Weimar Republic, the German government that immediately preceded Hitler’s, actually had tougher gun laws than the Nazi regime. After its defeat in World War I, and agreeing to the harsh surrender terms laid out in the Treaty of Versailles, the German legislature in 1919 passed a law that effectively banned all private firearm possession, leading the government to confiscate guns already in circulation. In 1928, the Reichstag relaxed the regulation a bit, but put in place a strict registration regime that required citizens to acquire separate permits to own guns, sell them or carry them....

[Hitler's] "1938 revisions completely deregulated the acquisition and transfer of rifles and shotguns, as well as ammunition,” Harcourt wrote. Meanwhile, many more categories of people, including Nazi party members, were exempted from gun ownership regulations altogether, while the legal age of purchase was lowered from 20 to 18, and permit lengths were extended from one year to three years.​

The 1938 law did ban Jews from owning guns. But as the ADL explained in 2013, "the small number of personal firearms in the hands of the small number of Germany’s Jews (about 214,000) remaining in Germany in 1938 could in no way have stopped the totalitarian power of the Nazi German state," which eventually conquered most of Europe.

There was some armed Jewish resistance to the power of the Nazi war machine. But it often ended in death for the Jews involved.

In January 1943, Jews in the Warsaw ghetto rose up against the Nazis. Some 13,000 Jews died in the uprising. (They killed around 20 Nazis.) The rest were deported to concentration and extermination camps, where most were murdered.

My grandfather and grandmother had escaped from the ghetto before the uprising and gone into hiding in the countryside. They survived.

More: Ben Carson Blames Holocaust On Gun Control

Ben Carson should learn some factual history.
When have Republicans cared about historical accuracy?
 
Six million armed Jews could have kicked some serious Nazis ass but that didn't happen because the National Socialist didn't allow the Jews to have weapons.

Just like the Democrat Party doesn't want the American people to have the ability to keep and bear arms.

More gun nut fantasy

Women, Children and Old men do not make much of an army

Neither does a random assembly of gun owners with no leadership, no safe harbor , no logistics or supplies and no training

The Germans would have characterized the armed horde of Jews as terrorists and nobody would have offered them any assistance


We aren't just talking about armed Jews either.......we are talking about the rest of the populations of the countries occupied by the Germans....who then handed over their citizens to the Germans for murder......

We have not had an incidence of a well armed general population that had been victims of genocide by their government....all genocide happens to unarmed, defenseless people......

And as to Germany...the nazis used the gun control laws from 1920 and 28 to disarm their opposition...so when they sent their thugs out to beat people up, and destroy their businesses, no one could stop them...they had complete free reign and the will to terrorize helpless people....

As we saw in Ferguson.....during the riots...businesses that had armed guards...were not looted or destroyed.....or burned to the ground.

The nazis were able to murder and intimidate their unarmed political opponents and that made everyone else back down......and then they kept consolidating their power.

A general armed population isn't going to put up with that crap.....

And that is why we have the 2nd Amendment...it keeps small, violent groups, and larger ones, like the democrats, from using violence to suppress their opposition.

More gun nut fantasies of fighting off Hitler with your trusty hunting rifle

Totally clueless as to what it takes to comprise a modern military force


You should probably tell that to the Iraqis and the Afghanis.....they just sort of drove us out....with small arms and bombs......you know...the U.S. the most advanced military on the face of the planet..........boy, you guys are stupid.

It comes down to...is it worth it?

We never should have been in either country


That has nothing to do with the point.....are we, the country with the most advanced military on earth leaving two countries whose people fought us off with small arms and improvised bombs?...easy question spiffy......
 
Whole family's of blacks weren't rounded up and sent to gas chambers, You leftist idiot...WTF?:uhoh3: :slap:

Whole families were denied the right to vote, had their homes and businesses burned, saw their father taken out and lynched
They saw a government sworn to protect them ignore the atrocities being conducted against them

Shouldn't have armed blacks stood up and fought ?


Blacks were victims of genocide?.....You compare the U.S. to Nazi Germany?....You're a dumb ass and don't even realize it:uhoh3:
Blacks were the victims of rightwing terrorists
Those terrorists were protected by the government

Shouldn't armed blacks have protected themselves?


Blacks were victims of left wing, fascist, tyrants, the same people you support. Christians started the civil rights movement.and blacks were not rounded up and executed by the millions :slap:

3000 blacks were lynched

I didn't see blacks resorting to second amendment remedies
Whites were lynched too you dumbass...It's a Democratic party thing

KKK Democrats Lynching Killing Black & White 'Radical Republicans

 
The Anti-Defamation League says these sorts of comments are "historically inaccurate and offensive."

Ben Carson, a candidate for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, blamed the Holocaust on Nazi gun control in an interview on CNN Thursday.

Host Wolf Blitzer read a section from Carson's book, A More Perfect Union, in which Carson writes:

German citizens were disarmed by their government in the late 1930s, and by the mid-1940s Hitler's regime had mercilessly slaughtered six million Jews and numerous others whom they considered inferior ... Through a combination of removing guns and disseminating deceitful propaganda, the Nazis were able to carry out their evil intentions with relatively little resistance.​

"I think the likelihood of Hitler being able to accomplish his goals would have been greatly diminished if the people had been armed," Carson elaborated in the interview. "There's a reason these dictatorial people take the guns first."

The Anti-Defamation League, which monitors and responds to anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry, has long opposed the use of Nazi comparisons in the U.S. gun control debate. "The idea that supporters of gun control are doing something akin to what Hitler’s Germany did to strip citizens of guns in the run-up to the Second World War is historically inaccurate and offensive, especially to Holocaust survivors and their families," Abraham Foxman, the ADL's national director at the time, said in 2013.

Conservatives have a history of comparing gun control advocates to Hitler and the Nazis. The ADL's 2013 comments were provoked by The Drudge Report's choice to use an image of Hitler to illustrate news that President Barack Obama was pursuing limited gun control measures after 20 first-graders and six school staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, were murdered by a gunman.

Many historians disagree with the idea that armed German Jews could have prevented the Holocaust. And as Alex Seitz-Wald, a journalist then writing for Salon, explained in 2013, the full story of Nazi gun regulation is more complicated than Carson and his ilk might like:

University of Chicago law professor Bernard Harcourt explored this myth in depth in a 2004 article published in the Fordham Law Review. As it turns out, the Weimar Republic, the German government that immediately preceded Hitler’s, actually had tougher gun laws than the Nazi regime. After its defeat in World War I, and agreeing to the harsh surrender terms laid out in the Treaty of Versailles, the German legislature in 1919 passed a law that effectively banned all private firearm possession, leading the government to confiscate guns already in circulation. In 1928, the Reichstag relaxed the regulation a bit, but put in place a strict registration regime that required citizens to acquire separate permits to own guns, sell them or carry them....

[Hitler's] "1938 revisions completely deregulated the acquisition and transfer of rifles and shotguns, as well as ammunition,” Harcourt wrote. Meanwhile, many more categories of people, including Nazi party members, were exempted from gun ownership regulations altogether, while the legal age of purchase was lowered from 20 to 18, and permit lengths were extended from one year to three years.​

The 1938 law did ban Jews from owning guns. But as the ADL explained in 2013, "the small number of personal firearms in the hands of the small number of Germany’s Jews (about 214,000) remaining in Germany in 1938 could in no way have stopped the totalitarian power of the Nazi German state," which eventually conquered most of Europe.

There was some armed Jewish resistance to the power of the Nazi war machine. But it often ended in death for the Jews involved.

In January 1943, Jews in the Warsaw ghetto rose up against the Nazis. Some 13,000 Jews died in the uprising. (They killed around 20 Nazis.) The rest were deported to concentration and extermination camps, where most were murdered.

My grandfather and grandmother had escaped from the ghetto before the uprising and gone into hiding in the countryside. They survived.

More: Ben Carson Blames Holocaust On Gun Control

Ben Carson should learn some factual history.
When have Republicans cared about historical accuracy?


Since the democrats and lefties started lying about it...so from day 1.
 
More gun nut fantasy

Women, Children and Old men do not make much of an army

Neither does a random assembly of gun owners with no leadership, no safe harbor , no logistics or supplies and no training

The Germans would have characterized the armed horde of Jews as terrorists and nobody would have offered them any assistance


We aren't just talking about armed Jews either.......we are talking about the rest of the populations of the countries occupied by the Germans....who then handed over their citizens to the Germans for murder......

We have not had an incidence of a well armed general population that had been victims of genocide by their government....all genocide happens to unarmed, defenseless people......

And as to Germany...the nazis used the gun control laws from 1920 and 28 to disarm their opposition...so when they sent their thugs out to beat people up, and destroy their businesses, no one could stop them...they had complete free reign and the will to terrorize helpless people....

As we saw in Ferguson.....during the riots...businesses that had armed guards...were not looted or destroyed.....or burned to the ground.

The nazis were able to murder and intimidate their unarmed political opponents and that made everyone else back down......and then they kept consolidating their power.

A general armed population isn't going to put up with that crap.....

And that is why we have the 2nd Amendment...it keeps small, violent groups, and larger ones, like the democrats, from using violence to suppress their opposition.

More gun nut fantasies of fighting off Hitler with your trusty hunting rifle

Totally clueless as to what it takes to comprise a modern military force


You should probably tell that to the Iraqis and the Afghanis.....they just sort of drove us out....with small arms and bombs......you know...the U.S. the most advanced military on the face of the planet..........boy, you guys are stupid.

It comes down to...is it worth it?

We never should have been in either country


That has nothing to do with the point.....are we, the country with the most advanced military on earth leaving two countries whose people fought us off with small arms and improvised bombs?...easy question spiffy......

Occupying force that wants to be treated as liberators
 
We aren't just talking about armed Jews either.......we are talking about the rest of the populations of the countries occupied by the Germans....who then handed over their citizens to the Germans for murder......

We have not had an incidence of a well armed general population that had been victims of genocide by their government....all genocide happens to unarmed, defenseless people......

And as to Germany...the nazis used the gun control laws from 1920 and 28 to disarm their opposition...so when they sent their thugs out to beat people up, and destroy their businesses, no one could stop them...they had complete free reign and the will to terrorize helpless people....

As we saw in Ferguson.....during the riots...businesses that had armed guards...were not looted or destroyed.....or burned to the ground.

The nazis were able to murder and intimidate their unarmed political opponents and that made everyone else back down......and then they kept consolidating their power.

A general armed population isn't going to put up with that crap.....

And that is why we have the 2nd Amendment...it keeps small, violent groups, and larger ones, like the democrats, from using violence to suppress their opposition.

More gun nut fantasies of fighting off Hitler with your trusty hunting rifle

Totally clueless as to what it takes to comprise a modern military force


You should probably tell that to the Iraqis and the Afghanis.....they just sort of drove us out....with small arms and bombs......you know...the U.S. the most advanced military on the face of the planet..........boy, you guys are stupid.

It comes down to...is it worth it?

We never should have been in either country


That has nothing to do with the point.....are we, the country with the most advanced military on earth leaving two countries whose people fought us off with small arms and improvised bombs?...easy question spiffy......

Occupying force that wants to be treated as liberators


Are we leaving or staying? Do we have the most powerful, best equiped and trained military in the world? Are we leaving after fighting people armed with rifles, pistols and improvised bombs?


I know you are slow...so I will just give you the answers...yes, yes, and yes.
 
More gun nut fantasies of fighting off Hitler with your trusty hunting rifle

Totally clueless as to what it takes to comprise a modern military force


You should probably tell that to the Iraqis and the Afghanis.....they just sort of drove us out....with small arms and bombs......you know...the U.S. the most advanced military on the face of the planet..........boy, you guys are stupid.

It comes down to...is it worth it?

We never should have been in either country


That has nothing to do with the point.....are we, the country with the most advanced military on earth leaving two countries whose people fought us off with small arms and improvised bombs?...easy question spiffy......

Occupying force that wants to be treated as liberators


Are we leaving or staying? Do we have the most powerful, best equiped and trained military in the world? Are we leaving after fighting people armed with rifles, pistols and improvised bombs?


I know you are slow...so I will just give you the answers...yes, yes, and yes.
Let's stay on topic

The question is could armed Jews have held off the Nazis?
The Nazis were willing to give up millions of deaths and would inflict retribution not just on the assassin but the whole community. So NO the Jews would not have held off the extermination

The U.S. Was not in the same boat in either Iraq or Afghanistan. Our public was not willing to accept the casualties we took. We were sold an occupation
 
Go fuck yourself you self-righteous ass-wipe. That is not what he stated and, as a Jew, I have much more right to take offense or non-offense to what Carson stated!

I am not offended and in fact believe he is 100% right. The Holocaust would have still happened, but just like the Jews did in Warsaw, they could have fought back! The Warsaw Jews fought harder than the entire Polish Army did and they lasted longer!

Yeah, not really. The Warsaw ghetto didn't rise up against the Germans until they heard the Soviets were getting close, and then were kind of screwed when the Red Army stopped its advance because, hey, the didn't want to deal with these jagdorks after the war.

Before that, they were happy to turn over their neighbors for conscript labor.

Okay, getting back to Uncle Tom Carson's Point. The Nazis didn't confiscate guns. In fact, for German citizens, the Weimar Gun control laws (enacted because the Nazis and other armed gangs were having gunfights in the street) were repealed and it became easier for an average German to acquire a gun.

The guy who brought gun control to Germany, ironically, was Dwight D. Eisenhower.

He ordered German citizens to be disarmed when a few of them took potshots at allied troops.
You really need to get a history you stupid fuck!


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Dipstick......the people were unarmed..so when hitler rolled over their militaries the civilians were helpless....

they had plenty of weapons. The Germans had more and were better trained. The Poles were attacking tanks from horseback. That was why they lost.

Funny, that dynamic happened in country after country....all throughout Europe.....complete civilian disarmament before the invaasion and then...whamo......the civilians are easily murdered by the invaders.....gee fucking whiz...what a fucking coincidence.......country after country, the people are disarmed and are easily rounded up and sent to the death camps......

Can you actually document that, because you keep claiming that this 'disarmerment" of civilians happened, but you have yet to cite a law that was passed that did this.

Tank beats rifle. Every time.

No...mass murders happen when progressives take over a country.....Russia, China, Cambodia...and then they start murdering the people so they can create a new society....

I think you are a little confused. First, "Progressive" doesn't mean what you think it means. Second, you keep forgetting that all these "massacres" happen one side wins a long-term civil war. Humanity had already been devalued by idiots with guns. Russia had fought WWI and then a civil War and a War against Poland.

China had been fighting a civil war since the 1920's and were invaded by Japan.

Cambodia had been ruthlessly bombed by the United States and the US toppled their legitimate government and put up a puppet regime that went along with it.

That's why citizens of the society - not progressives - murdered the shit out of their neighbors.
 
You should probably tell that to the Iraqis and the Afghanis.....they just sort of drove us out....with small arms and bombs......you know...the U.S. the most advanced military on the face of the planet..........boy, you guys are stupid.

Uh, last time I checked, we were still in Afghanistan.

so did they "Drive us out", or did we get sick of being there when we found out the Retard from Texas had LIED us into a war so his buddies at Haliburton could get rich?

Yes, Bush was completely incompetent in running the war.
 
Sorry...wrong again........

And in all the genocide...and mass murders by governments, they all have the same thing in common, the victims are unarmed and defenseless...

why would the Germans invade Switzerland, a country that was Aryan and didn't have any Jews?

There was no reason to invade Switzerland, they already had it surrounded.

Hey, I'd have no problem if we had gun laws like the Swiss. But I don't think you NRA types would like it.

snopes.com: FALSE: Gun Ownership and Homicides in Honduras vs. Switzerland

The "gun in every closet" tradition was challenged in 2001, after a disgruntled citizen opened fire with his army rifle inside a regional parliament, killing 14 and injuring 14 others. The subsequent opposition to widespread gun ownership spearheaded a push for stricter arms legislation. The government and pro-gun groups argued, however, that the country's existing laws regulating the sale, ownership and licensing of private guns, which includes a ban on carrying concealed weapons, are stringent enough. The law allows citizens or legal residents over the age of 18, who have obtained a permit from the government and who have no criminal record or history of mental illness, to buy up to three weapons from an authorized dealer, with the exception of automatic firearms and selective fire weapons, which are banned. Semiautomatics, which have caused havoc in the U.S., can be legally purchased.

The authorities made one concession, though: since 2008, all military — but not private — ammunition must be stored in central arsenals rather than in soldiers’ homes. The debate culminated in a nationwide referendum, when 56% of voters rejected the proposal initiated by anti-gun organizations to ban army rifles from homes altogether.
 
You really need to get a history you stupid fuck!

Get a history what? I think you have an adjective missing a noun.

Now what I do have is a HISTORY DEGREE. Of course, it's from one of those Commie Liberal Universities where they don't teach about Talking Snakes in Science Class.
 
I call out all the haters. White racists, black racist, and Jew haters. It's not a personal thing. You've got psychological issues to have to deal with. Your amnesty towards Jews generally is irrational, and a form of psychos. Get some help boy

Except I've never heard you call out anyone except for anyone who is even slightly critical of the Zionist Entity. Then you whine all day about Jew Haters. But man, I've seen some of the most vile racist shit said here every day by your fellow conservatives, and you haven't called them on it, not once.

Oh, yeah, apparently the Roids have damaged your ability to construct sentences. Were you looking for the words "Animosity" and "Psychosis"? My animosity towards Israel is that it's an apartheid state engaged in genocide, and it makes the rest of us co-conspirators.
 
Gun control is the best the scared, paranoid, controlling, delusional bleeding hearts can come up with??

Hashtag guns are here to stay
 
You should probably tell that to the Iraqis and the Afghanis.....they just sort of drove us out....with small arms and bombs......you know...the U.S. the most advanced military on the face of the planet..........boy, you guys are stupid.

Uh, last time I checked, we were still in Afghanistan.

so did they "Drive us out", or did we get sick of being there when we found out the Retard from Texas had LIED us into a war so his buddies at Haliburton could get rich?

Yes, Bush was completely incompetent in running the war.

Bush was just another progressive, along with most other politicians in Washington at the time who were for the war including Hillary.

Admit it, progressives just suck at everything they do...
 
Sorry...wrong again........

And in all the genocide...and mass murders by governments, they all have the same thing in common, the victims are unarmed and defenseless...

why would the Germans invade Switzerland, a country that was Aryan and didn't have any Jews?

There was no reason to invade Switzerland, they already had it surrounded.

Hey, I'd have no problem if we had gun laws like the Swiss. But I don't think you NRA types would like it.

snopes.com: FALSE: Gun Ownership and Homicides in Honduras vs. Switzerland

The "gun in every closet" tradition was challenged in 2001, after a disgruntled citizen opened fire with his army rifle inside a regional parliament, killing 14 and injuring 14 others. The subsequent opposition to widespread gun ownership spearheaded a push for stricter arms legislation. The government and pro-gun groups argued, however, that the country's existing laws regulating the sale, ownership and licensing of private guns, which includes a ban on carrying concealed weapons, are stringent enough. The law allows citizens or legal residents over the age of 18, who have obtained a permit from the government and who have no criminal record or history of mental illness, to buy up to three weapons from an authorized dealer, with the exception of automatic firearms and selective fire weapons, which are banned. Semiautomatics, which have caused havoc in the U.S., can be legally purchased.

The authorities made one concession, though: since 2008, all military — but not private — ammunition must be stored in central arsenals rather than in soldiers’ homes. The debate culminated in a nationwide referendum, when 56% of voters rejected the proposal initiated by anti-gun organizations to ban army rifles from homes altogether.
Snopes is a wacky left source, only the least stable of us believe them.

Hashtag you need legit sources
 
Bush was just another progressive, along with most other politicians in Washington at the time who were for the war including Hillary.

Admit it, progressives just suck at everything they do...

Look everyone it's the "No True Scotsman Fallacy". Everyone point and laugh.

Snopes is a wacky left source, only the least stable of us believe them.

Hashtag you need legit sources

Hashtag, says the stupid racist inbred fuck who thinks Bush was a progressive
 
The Anti-Defamation League says these sorts of comments are "historically inaccurate and offensive."

Ben Carson, a candidate for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, blamed the Holocaust on Nazi gun control in an interview on CNN Thursday.

Host Wolf Blitzer read a section from Carson's book, A More Perfect Union, in which Carson writes:

German citizens were disarmed by their government in the late 1930s, and by the mid-1940s Hitler's regime had mercilessly slaughtered six million Jews and numerous others whom they considered inferior ... Through a combination of removing guns and disseminating deceitful propaganda, the Nazis were able to carry out their evil intentions with relatively little resistance.​

"I think the likelihood of Hitler being able to accomplish his goals would have been greatly diminished if the people had been armed," Carson elaborated in the interview. "There's a reason these dictatorial people take the guns first."

The Anti-Defamation League, which monitors and responds to anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry, has long opposed the use of Nazi comparisons in the U.S. gun control debate. "The idea that supporters of gun control are doing something akin to what Hitler’s Germany did to strip citizens of guns in the run-up to the Second World War is historically inaccurate and offensive, especially to Holocaust survivors and their families," Abraham Foxman, the ADL's national director at the time, said in 2013.

Conservatives have a history of comparing gun control advocates to Hitler and the Nazis. The ADL's 2013 comments were provoked by The Drudge Report's choice to use an image of Hitler to illustrate news that President Barack Obama was pursuing limited gun control measures after 20 first-graders and six school staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, were murdered by a gunman.

Many historians disagree with the idea that armed German Jews could have prevented the Holocaust. And as Alex Seitz-Wald, a journalist then writing for Salon, explained in 2013, the full story of Nazi gun regulation is more complicated than Carson and his ilk might like:

University of Chicago law professor Bernard Harcourt explored this myth in depth in a 2004 article published in the Fordham Law Review. As it turns out, the Weimar Republic, the German government that immediately preceded Hitler’s, actually had tougher gun laws than the Nazi regime. After its defeat in World War I, and agreeing to the harsh surrender terms laid out in the Treaty of Versailles, the German legislature in 1919 passed a law that effectively banned all private firearm possession, leading the government to confiscate guns already in circulation. In 1928, the Reichstag relaxed the regulation a bit, but put in place a strict registration regime that required citizens to acquire separate permits to own guns, sell them or carry them....

[Hitler's] "1938 revisions completely deregulated the acquisition and transfer of rifles and shotguns, as well as ammunition,” Harcourt wrote. Meanwhile, many more categories of people, including Nazi party members, were exempted from gun ownership regulations altogether, while the legal age of purchase was lowered from 20 to 18, and permit lengths were extended from one year to three years.​

The 1938 law did ban Jews from owning guns. But as the ADL explained in 2013, "the small number of personal firearms in the hands of the small number of Germany’s Jews (about 214,000) remaining in Germany in 1938 could in no way have stopped the totalitarian power of the Nazi German state," which eventually conquered most of Europe.

There was some armed Jewish resistance to the power of the Nazi war machine. But it often ended in death for the Jews involved.

In January 1943, Jews in the Warsaw ghetto rose up against the Nazis. Some 13,000 Jews died in the uprising. (They killed around 20 Nazis.) The rest were deported to concentration and extermination camps, where most were murdered.

My grandfather and grandmother had escaped from the ghetto before the uprising and gone into hiding in the countryside. They survived.

More: Ben Carson Blames Holocaust On Gun Control

Ben Carson should learn some factual history.


yeah hitler expanded gun right to those of privilege and in the party

as for the jew and other undesirables the mere possession of ammunition could mean death

that is exactly how gun control works
 

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