[otness_e]

In all fairness, the French Revolution and Reign of Terror didn’t even bother with the disarming of citizens. If anything, they supplied citizens with guns specifically so they can gear up a mass killing from the start. And I know there were reports of people actually laughing and cheering when a guy was shot with shotguns. You can read all about it here: http://www.culturewars.com/CultureWars/Archives/Fidelity_archives/parricide.html

And bear in mind, the French Revolution is what ultimately set up the likes of Communism and even Naziism.

But beyond that, yes, Ben Carson is indeed correct, at least regarding the Nazi Germany comparison.

[GOPJ]

I'm just curious... how on earth did you wind up here?

[GOPJ]

The German Revolution, which began in the year 1933, also went through a relatively humane phase; however, June 30, 1934 was a flaming warning signal, which was followed by a steep and ineluctable plunge, like the kind described in Greek tragedy, into the hell of totalitarian left-wing tyranny. As with the French Revolution, the way had been paved in this direction from the beginning. The same thing is true of Russia. Just as in France it was the writings of the Encyclopedists, Morelly, Rousseau, Diderot, and Sade, and in Germanic countries, the writings of Haeckel, Chamberlain, and Rosenberg as well as those of Hitler and Goebbels, so in Russia it was the writings of Marx, Tschernyschewsky, Plechanow and Lenin which determined subsequent political development.

Ideas matter... Ann Coulter wrote about the French Revolution some time back and I remember feeling she was the first person to 'get it' on a real level - the level where each individual makes a choice to hand over their control to a mob.