[tet68]

the ancillary claim that Jews could have stopped the Holocaust with more guns doesn’t make any sense at all if you think about it for more than a minute.

Well, I thought about it but it still makes sense to me.
It might not have stopped the Holocaust but it sure would
have made the price higher and it sure would have saved
Jewish lives.

[TigersEye]

the ancillary claim that Jews could have stopped the Holocaust with more guns doesn’t make any sense at all if you think about it for more than a minute.

That would depend a lot on target selection. Running out in the street to face off with a squad of soldiers with your bolt action rifle wouldn't work out too well. But that's not the only thing you can do with a bolt action rifle.

[iacovatx]

“the ancillary claim that Jews could have stopped the Holocaust with more guns doesn’t make any sense at all if you think about it for more than a minute.”

Well, I thought about it, too, and the Warsaw uprising would have been strengthened with more arms. Every military engagement in history that ended because one of the combatants ran low on ammunition or had too few working arms is evidence of the nonsense of the above statement. Indeed, more or better arms strengthens superiority of one force against another—it is possibly the first and most important rule of conflict.

[1010RD]

If the Warsaw Jews had heavier weapons and more ammo they would have held out.

[1010RD]

If the Warsaw Jews had heavier weapons and more ammo they would have held out.

[jmacusa]

Only too late did the Jews of Europe see that armed resistance would at least let them choose their own destiny and at the same time make their SS killers pay a price for it. Such was the tragedy of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943.