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To: ArrogantBustard
Educate yourself about the NAZI weapons laws of Nineteen THIRTY Eight ... You have only your OWN historical ignorance to lose.

Yeah, I’m stupid. Certainly when faced with intellects such as yourself.

What in my comment

Hitler, Jews and gun control is largely nonsense. The defining law was the 1928 Law on Firearms and Ammunition, which required registration of of gun owners/purchasers, ammunition purchasers, and hunters. Annually. Ironically enacted in part to disarm militias such as the brownshirts. And I know, if the Jews, a massive 1.5% or so of the population had only taken up arms, Hitler wouldn't have risen to power. Most of the clowns spouting that line are either historically ignorant, or would be acknowledging that the Jews of Germany got what they deserved, rebelling against the government and all back in 1928. However individually, a firearm might well have been the difference between escape and death. By 1938 any German Jew able to flee had fled. Largely to other parts of Europe, North America and Palestine being closed to Jews. By the time of the 1938 law, gun ownership in Germany had been over for a decade.

do you object to.

By 1938 it WAS over for Jews in Germany, about 2/3 had already left. Of those remaining, gun ownership had been long banned, as the 1928 law required permits and Jews weren’t issued permits once the Nazis came to power. Jews were denied most benefits of government.

And the 1938 law WAS an extension of the 1928 act, as you link demonstrates, the first line being

With a basis in § 31 of the Weapons Law of 18 March 1928 (Reichsgesetzblatt I, p. 265),

Of course you can’t refer to the 1928 law as a Nazi law.

And no, as I noted, armed Jews, likely a fraction of a percent of the 1938, couldn't have done a thing about the government. At maybe 2%, couldn't in 1928 either. Though it would have provided a causis belli for the Holocaust which Jew haters would use today. The only benefit of being armed would be personal, the ability to save oneself and ones family. While fleeing.

So nice to be called ignorant by a poster like you.

163 posted on 09/07/2006 7:13:13 AM PDT by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn't do!)
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To: SJackson
1) I read your post too quickly, for which I apologise.

2) I think you underestimate the utility of personal firearms; the Nazis were certainly interested in making darn sure the Jews were disarmed before going after them. The Nazis were murderous and evil, but they weren't stupid. They sought to disarm their generally law-abiding intended victims before launching the pogrom.

3) Hitler's NAZI gun law (1938) specifically mentions Juden; one might even conclude that he wanted to make sure that individual Jews did not take advantage of a firearm that "might well have been the difference between escape and death." Your efforts to pooh-pooh the relationship between Nazi gun control and Nazi genocide are irrational.

166 posted on 09/07/2006 7:34:36 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: SJackson
At maybe 2%, couldn't in 1928 either should be At maybe 1%, couldn't in 1928 either
167 posted on 09/07/2006 7:35:41 AM PDT by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn't do!)
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