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SummerSnow

(12,608 posts)
Thu Oct 8, 2015, 05:42 PM Oct 2015

The new stupid.....

Ben Carson Blames Holocaust On Gun Control


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

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ben-carson-holocaust-gun-control_5616a7aee4b0082030a185c2

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.

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.

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The new stupid..... (Original Post) SummerSnow Oct 2015 OP
Aaaaaaaaaaaa shenmue Oct 2015 #1
No, it was IBM. Octafish Oct 2015 #2
I've seen that meme pushed by DU guntypes. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Oct 2015 #3

Erich Bloodaxe BSN

(14,733 posts)
3. I've seen that meme pushed by DU guntypes.
Thu Oct 8, 2015, 06:29 PM
Oct 2015

That countries that ban guns lead inevitably towards civilian slaughters, complete with a list of authoritarian dictators who slaughtered civilians after passing gun bans.

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