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

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116. To which Magistrate post

are you referring?

Interestingly enough, all of his/her posts on this thread that I've read are offered to contradict your position.

The armed German resistance to the Nazis was miniscule after the seizure of power in 1933. Certainly, as I said, there was no "viable" resistance, meaning resistance that survived any length of time, that had any impact whatsoever on the Nazi hold on power. Hitler's tyranny ended with the invasion of the Red Army from the east and the Allied army from the west. No German peasants with pitchforks or handguns or rifles had any role to play in that.

And in the occupied territories, even the Yugoslav resistance, which of all the various European resistance movements was most successful in driving the Germans from their soil, became effective only after the Italian surrender of 1943 which enabled Tito both to seize heavy arms from surrendering Italian troops, and to get supplies from British and American forces by air and from across the Adriatic.

BTW, your continued refusal to capitalize "Jew" can be seen by some as an indication of antiSemitism.

Also, if personal weapons are such an effective deterent to tyranny, how was it Hitler was able to seize them at all? Sounds to me like what you're saying is, if a government wants to seize weapons from civilians it will, and there is nothing much you can do about it. The fact that these "block by block" searches and seizures you describe happened at all, without damage to the Nazi hold on power, should tell you how absurd the whole NRA talking point is right there.