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Interesting, but not very meaningful unless quantified.

How many guns were in private hands and therefore confiscated as a result of the registration? If a very small number, it is unreasonable to think they would have made any significant difference if there had been no registration. My understanding is that there had never been any particularly large number of firearms in private German hands, particularly handguns.

I haven’t seen those numbers, but I suspect it is a very-very different situation from the hundreds of millions of guns floating around USA.

I also ask people to consider what the likely result of Kristallnacht would have been had the attacked Jews been heavily armed and managed to kill some hundreds of their attackers. Would it have really brought down the Nazi government, or merely have accelerated the destruction of the Jewish people in Germany?

There were about .5M Jews in Germany in 1933 or about 0.75% of the population. Somewhat fewer in 1938 due to emigration. If every single Jew had been as heavily armed as an American prepper, it’s difficult to see how they could have won the battle.

I am not arguing against the need to fight against evil, using deadly force if necessary. Only against the delusion that doing so will always be effective. The Jews of Germany after 1933 could quite literally not win, regardless of whether they were armed or not. Therefore, the claim that their disarming somehow allowed or caused their destruction is illogical.

I don't know how to respond. All I can speak for is me. But If I had been one of those Jews, I would have preferred death by being shot full of holes by agents of the Governmental than being worked, starved, and beaten to death in one of the camps.

When it happens here, I expect to be dead and gone by then. However, if worse comes to worse, I will die alone in my own yard shot to death by agents of the Government. I will not go alive to a Government camp.