The Rude Pundit - Sorry, Gun Nuts: Hitler Actually Relaxed Most Gun Laws

[billh58]

95. Like the NRA and so many of its supporters,

you are using a false equivalence argument to make a bullshit NRA talking point. Hitler would have killed the German Jews whether they had guns or not. That a few more of Hitler's troops may have died in the process had the Jews not been disarmed, is more or less pointless. Hitler targeted all German Jews for annihilation because of bigotry and hatred, and not because they posed a threat to his dictatorial government. And, besides the guns, he took away almost all of their rights.

Like our homegrown neo-Nazi "militias" in the modern day USA, the German Jews had neither the numbers, nor the potential firepower to overthrow their government. The point of the OP is that Hitler relaxed the gun laws of Germany for the majority of the population, contrary to what the NRA talking points intentionally misstate.

The other part of your false equivalence argument is the assumption that our constitution is not strong enough to head off any attempts to turn our government into a tyrannical dictatorship. Not gonna happen. There are too many checks and balances built into the Constitution which would prevent that doomsday scenario. If it were possible, Dubya and his gang of thieves would have attempted to impose a dictatorship because after all, Dubya stated that a "dictatorship would be easier" to govern than a democracy didn't he?

Using weak-assed arguments which attempt to stoke fear into the minds and hearts of the American people is all that the NRA and its "survivalist" paranoid followers have left, and that is just sad. Our government is NOT advocating taking guns away from the American people, and no there is no need to repeal the 2nd Amendment.

There is, however, a need to regulate and control access to guns in this country, and that is perfectly legal and logical. Our government regulates many products which are considered health hazards, and guns are no different. After all, we hold the world's record for gun deaths and injuries among our developed-nation peers. It is time to relinquish that title to someone else -- and then help them reduce their own gun deaths and injuries. Lead by example. Get it?