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Re: Guns could have saved Jews from the Holocaust

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Wed, 28 Feb 18 10:28 PM | 62 view(s)
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As ruthless as the Nazis most certainly were, Jewish resistance armed with modern small arms more than likely would have been eventually crushed, BUT ... (1) at least it would have given them the opportunity to defend themselves and die on their own terms, rather than be herded into gas chambers or shot on the side of the road, and (2) they might have been able to cause such a disruption that forces from other countries might have then been drawn into the fray, which could have then resulted in a major hindrance to Nazi Germany's military build-up and the start of World War II. 




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Guns could have saved Jews from the Holocaust
By: Decomposed in POPE IV
Wed, 28 Feb 18 9:46 PM 		Msg. 44980 of 47202

The Anti-Defamation League thinks this claim is "mind-bending." No, it's not mind-bending. How many armed civilians did it take to kill an American President? Just one. One person with the will and a quality weapon. That's all it takes.


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Rep. Don Young greets supporters in 2012 in Anchorage, Alaska. Young, in an argument against gun control, said Jews might have survived the Holocaust
if they had been armed. Marc Lester - Anchorage Daily News file


February 28, 2018
Guns could have saved Jews from the Holocaust, Alaska congressman says

By Don Sweeney
dsweeney@sacbee.com
TheNewsTribune.com

An Alaska congressman has argued that Jews could have averted the Holocaust if they’d been armed.

“How many millions of people were shot and killed because they were unarmed? Fifty million in Russia,” says Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska on a recording made by a Democrat running for Young’s seat. “How many Jews were put in the ovens because they were unarmed?”

Dmitri Shein, a Democrat seeking Young’s seat, recorded the comments at a conference last week in Juneau, reported Alaska Public Media. Shein asked Young about school safety, prompting the exchange.

The argument that gun control eased Adolf Hitler’s rise in Germany before World War II has circulated among gun-rights advocates for years, even appearing in a National Review article.

The Anti-Defamation League, however, has called the claim outlandish.

“It is mind-bending to suggest that personal firearms in the hands of the small number of Germany’s Jews (about 214,000 remaining in Germany in 1938 ) could have stopped the totalitarian onslaught of Nazi Germany when the armies of Poland, France, Belgium and numerous other countries were overwhelmed by the Third Reich,” Jonathan Greenblatt, national director of the Anti-Defamation League wrote in a 2015 opinion piece for the Huffington Post.

Young, 84, who is Alaska’s only member of the House of Representatives, was first elected to Congress in 1973. Young is a National Rifle Association board member.

http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/nation-world/national/article202573824.html

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