You dumb fucking whore. Nazis are rightists just like YOU! The Nazi Gun Control Myth

[Jim McCron]

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You dumb fucking whore. Nazis are rightists just like YOU!


https://www.cracked.com/article_25848_5-myths-about-nazis-people-still-
believe-today.html


https://www.salon.com/2013/01/11/stop_talking_about_hitler/


The Myth of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Gun Control
POLITICS | October 4, 2017 | By Brian Delpozo

http://standardnews.com/adolf-hitler-gun-control-myth/
Whenever the gun-control debate heats up in the United States — usually
after an all-too-common mass shooting — guns rights activists often cite
Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany gun laws as an example of the dangers of gun
control. They claim that these laws, enacted by Hitler himself, disarmed
the German people, including minority groups, and made them more vulnerable
to oppression and eventually the Holocaust. This historical “fact” often is
trumpeted far and wide as an example of what could happen to America with
stricter gun-control laws. The problem with that? It’s mostly a myth.

The idea has been propagated by numerous commentators, gun’s rights
advocacy groups, politicians, and the NRA. In fact, NRA Executive Vice
President Wayne LaPierre discussed the idea in his book Guns, Crime, and
Freedom, writing, “In Germany, Jewish extermination began with the Nazi
Weapon Law of 1938, signed by Adolf Hitler.”


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Many also point to a supposed quote from Adolf Hitler himself, which reads,
“This year will go down in history! For the first time, a civilized nation
has full gun registration! Our streets will be safer, our police more
efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future!”

However, these arguments are missing several key points. For starters, the
Weapon Law of 1938 actually significantly loosened strict German gun laws
that had been put into place by the Weimar Republic government in the years
following World War I. These Weimar laws included an initial ban on all
private firearm ownership, which was later slightly relaxed into a system
of strict regulation requiring numerous permits.

The Nazi Weapon Law deregulated this whole system, as well as other changes
that made it much easier for others to acquire firearms:

“The 1938 law signed by Hitler that LaPierre mentions in his book basically
does the opposite of what he says it did. ‘The 1938 revisions completely
deregulated the acquisition and transfer of rifles and shotguns, as well as
ammunition,’ [law professor Bernard E.] 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 idea that armed German Jews specifically would have been able to fight
back against the Holocaust is highly unlikely. The Nazi Germany war machine
was one of the most powerful military systems ever constructed, especially
prior to and in the early years of World War II, and it would have been
able to quash almost any armed resistance. In fact, the largest revolt by
armed Jewish citizens during the war — the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising —
was ended in less than a month and resulted in the death of 13,000 Jews
versus less than 300 Germans.


As Brown University’s Omer Bartov succinctly put it to Salon: “Just imagine
the Jews of Germany exercising the right to bear arms and fighting the SA,
SS, and the Wehrmacht. The Red Army lost 7 million men fighting the
Wehrmacht, despite its tanks and planes and artillery. The Jews with
pistols and shotguns would have done better?”

Finally, the popular Adolf Hitler quote used seems to have no basis in
fact. For starters, as written above, gun registration was actually
instituted by the Weimar government and was relaxed by the Nazis.
Furthermore, Harcourt wrote in a 2004 Fordham Law Review article titled On
Gun Registration, the NRA, Adolf Hitler, and Nazi Gun Laws: Exploding the
Gun Culture Wars (A Call to Historians) that, “It turns out, for example,
that Hitler’s infamous quote, rehearsed in so many newspapers, is probably
a fraud and was likely never uttered. The citation reference is a jumbled
and incomprehensible mess that has never been properly identified or
authenticated, and no one has been able to produce a document corresponding
to the quote.”


Gun control is one of the most complicated issues in American society, with
the desire to uphold second amendment rights at odds with the desire for a
safer society and constantly leading to debate. However, the myth of Hitler
being a proponent of gun control should be removed from the conversation
entirely, as it simply has little to no basis in historical fact.