Gun Control, the Jews, and the Third Reich

The American Thinker ^ | 11-20-13 | Abraham Miller

[afraidfortherepublic]

In 1996, in commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of the modern Olympics, the German government issued a set of four stamps. One of these celebrates Alfred and Gustav Flatow, cousins, who were gold medalists in the 1896 Olympics. Alfred took the first in the parallel bars and with his cousin also won gold for the German team's overall performance.

In 1932, Alfred Flatow registered three handguns, as decreed by the harsh gun control laws of the Weimar Republic that were drawn amid the violence and chaos of the aftermath of World War I. The Weimar Republican grew out of the ashes of the Great War. Perceived as an institution imposed by Germany's enemies, Weimar lacked political legitimacy and was vulnerable to insurrection.

The first assault on the Republic, however, came not from the right but from the communist left. Under the leadership of Rosa Luxembourg and Karl Liebknecht, the German Communists attempted to overthrow the government by armed struggle. The fragile government mobilized the Freikorps, undisciplined militias composed largely of veterans. The Freikorps brutally put down the communist insurrection and murdered its leaders. The Communists had also seized the government in Bavaria and the Freikorps succeeded in vanquishing them.

Hoping to stem further attacks on the state, the liberal Weimar Republic imposed Draconian gun control laws that made it punishable by death to carry a gun. The brutal and undisciplined Freikorps were given the task of enforcing these laws and did so with alacrity, even murdering nurses who carried firearms for protection against rape amid the post-war chaos.

The Weimar Ministry of the Interior made gun registration mandatory.

[Travis McGee]

[InABunkerUnderSF]

I am reminded of my great aunt Sifra, who stood nearly six feet tall and fought with the Bielski partisans. She died fighting; it was a noble death. She died a warrior's death, not an anonymous death as a nameless, faceless victim. That is what separates a hero from a victim. That is the difference a gun makes.

The distinction between victim and hero is something often blurred by our society.

[Paul46360]

That was then..they didn't do it right. Those today have our best interest at heart and will seek to limit the disarming of Legal US Citizens more humanely.

[GraceG]

Limited Government: Rounding up people since NEVER

[driftless2]

Let’s face it..genocidal-minded tyrannies don’t give guns to the people they plan to slaughter. Every time I see a film or read an account of Jews being murdered by Nazis, I wish there were just a few Jews who had been armed with Thompsons able to fight back. Never give up your guns.

[donmeaker]

When the Weimar Republic banned guns, note that Hitler had one, and his gun was used to kill his niece/mistress.

Of course he never suffered any penalty for that. Some people are just special.

[PATRIOT1876]

*Let’s face it..genocidal-minded tyrannies don’t give guns to the people they plan to slaughter. Every time I see a film or read an account of Jews being murdered by Nazis, I wish there were just a few Jews who had been armed with Thompsons able to fight back. Never give up your guns.*

Cowards that pretend to be leaders don't have the intellectual capability to persuade you that their ideas have merit need to have ALL the guns so they can force you to obey their nonsensical policies.