QUOTES OF GUN CONTROL [Adolf Hitler explains why he confiscated the guns from the Jews.]

fdrs.org ^ | Adolf Hitler

[grundle]

http://www.fdrs.org/quotes_of_gun_control.html

"The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing."

- Adolf Hitler

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Weapons_Law

German Weapons Law

On November 11, 1938, the Minister of the Interior, Wilhelm Frick, passed Regulations Against Jews' Possession of Weapons. This regulation effectively deprived all Jews of the right to possess firearms or other weapons.

Source: http://www.stephenhalbrook.com/article-nazilaw.pdf

[spatin]

Well armed, maybe, but what about the will to use those arms?

[spatin]

I did a search on Hitler’s quotations about firearms and came up with this on Snopes (although I don’t always believe Snopes):
Whether this quote could be considered “true” in the sense that it compactly paraphrases an idea that Hitler once expressed depends upon how one interprets its meaning. The book Hitler’s Table Talk, 1941-1944: Secret Conversations records Hitler as having said the following sometime between February and September 1942:
The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing. Indeed, I would go so far as to say that the supply of arms to the underdogs is a sine qua non for the overthrow of any sovereignty. So let’s not have any native militia or native police.
If the term “conquering a nation” in the original quote is interpreted to mean that establishing and maintaining oneself as the autocratic head of a country (as Hitler did in Germany) requires disarming the civilian population, then the Table Talk passage cited above doesn’t really fit — Hitler was speaking of the need to disarm non-Aryans in the parts of Russia that had been occupied by German forces in the midst of a war, not of stripping all Germans of their guns. (And it’s unlikely that Hitler would have expressed such a concept in this context, as the 1938 German Weapons Act passed during Hitler’s rule actually loosened gun ownership rules for non-Jewish Germans.) If the term “conquering a nation” is interpreted to mean that the forcible overthrow and takeover of another country’s government and territory necessitates the disbanding and disarming of even local security forces, then the passage cited above might be considered as expressing the same idea as the original quote.

[Secret Agent Man]

We have the freedom of conscience here to determine our own lines in the sand. There will be people who will resist at various levels.

[wastedyears]

People should’ve risen up many times in this country after the signing of the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Nobody did anything, and it will continue that way. People talk of hiding a few stashes in various places for later use; but, that’s exactly when they should be much closer physically.

NFA - blatantly unconstitutional

GCA - almost verbatim copy of Nazi Gun Control Act

FOPA - Hughes Amendment, which banned the purchase of new full-auto firearms by private citizens