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In reply to the discussion: Venezuela bans private gun ownership [View all]appal_jack
(3,813 posts)Last edited Mon Jun 11, 2012, 04:51 PM - Edit history (1)
Review your history, harmonicon.
Hitler & Stalin were quite chummy, initially.
And, by the way, both of them opposed private firearms ownership: in Hitler's case basically for anyone who might oppose him, and in Stalin's case basically for any individual citizen.
And furthermore, Stalinist left-totalitarianism and Nazi right-totalitarianism were about equally nightmarish for those shipped off to camps & gulags that each regime employed.
Me, I'll stick with the good ol' Jeffersonian/Tom Paine/Eleanor Roosevelt/Howard Dean American continuum of thought that has proven time & again that private firearms ownership is perfectly compatible with, and possibly essential for, true freedom.
-app