“Even if Jews had guns, they were about as uncomfortable with guns as they are with basketballs.”
They should have attached money to the guns and I’ll bet they’ll be sharpshooters..
I believe there one armed battle in a Polish ghetto.
When your life and your family’s life is on the line, I bet they would get comfortable with guns in a hurry.
If they had them.
I’m not a Carson supporter, but that’s NOT what he said.
I’ve played a pickup game at the JCC, it’s true...
The Jews in Warsaw were few in number and they had a wretched assortment of guns, but they tied up the Germans for quite some time. With training and better guns, they could have done more.
And note that this isn't really a question of a rabble of citizens defeating a modern army in the field. This is about citizens being able to make life hard for a dictator and about breathing hope into others so that people begin standing up to the government. People who can defend themselves do not have to be sheep.
But if you take the guns, the men have little choice but to be sheep. And sheep are led to the slaughter.
Heh. That’s kind of funny.
But ... How do you explain Israel?
Tell that to the IDF!!
There is a difference between blaming and saying things might have been different.
The blame lies with Hitler and his policies, one of which was disarmament of the public.
Where I come from basketball is black guy and Jewish guy sport. Yeah lots of white Christians too but per capita I would say Blacks and Jewish. I personally hate the game. I’ll stick with baseball, football and outdoor sports (hunting fishing shooting).
Then explain the fact that a few million modern day Israelis have been able to hold off a half billion medieval knuckledraggers by force of arms.
If the Jews of Europe had easy access to weapons back then things surely would have been somewhat different...if not *very*.
Actually, Jews were big in pro basketball before the blacks took over.
Mordechai Anielewicz knew his way around a few weapons. (RIP).
Want to see what a Jew can do with a gun? Join the IDF, they’ll show you. Really want to see how good they are with weapons, give them an F-16 not a M-16.
heh heh
Jews used to be really big in basketball. Legendary coaches and players like Red Auerbach, Red Holtzman, Dolph Schayes and Nat Holman. The early NBA had a large number of Jewish players.
I only know of Jordan Farmar and a couple of Israelis currently in the NBA.
Tell that to the surviving family members of the Jews that held the line against the germans in Warsaw Poland. Carson is as right as rain on this.
One, he didn’t say the Nazis just confiscated guns from Jews, he said from Germans. Two, I find your remarks offensive and ill-informed. I know several Jews who could shoot a man’s eye out with a handgun at 50 yards. It would not be hard to find more than just the ones I know. Don’t go looking for them, would be my advice.
Beyond that, maybe you should read Denninger’s take on the statement:
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=230777
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Carson is just covering his poop under the rug.
He has figured out that he is going nowhere without the gun rights people that he has previously offended.
There is nothing else to this.
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What is Bad is Most people have no knowledge of History and how CORRECT Ben Carson is on this!!! (They Tried but only AFTER it was TOO LATE, Yet when they did Fight back they did Save some Lives!
Educate Yourself and Learn the lesson of History, DON’T REPEAT THEM!
The Enemy is within and until we deal with that Enemy we will Never be able to Deal with the Enemy’s outside the Nation!
“Jews seized what weapons they could find—picks, axes, and some firearms stolen from the camp armory”
Just a small story on this history, Much more is out there for you to LEARN from.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005407
Nonsense...I have always said the same thing, and if the Jews had owned guns all their lives like they do here, the nazis would have had a hell of a time rounding them up....The United States would be an extraordinarily difficult country in invade on the ground because everyone is armed....and armed people are seldom marched off to concentration camps.
Great Movie, Based on a True Story of Jews with Guns!
http://movieweb.com/movie/defiance-2009/
Free Men Own Guns, Slaves Do NOT! Ben Carson was 100% correct!