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IF this country were to ever succumb to Hitler-like evil, it would be after an incredible economic downturn, a downturn which would make this recession look like child's play.
It would have to be a dramatic decrease in our standard of living leaving Americans desperate for a solution, so desperate that they could rally around something so oppressive and evil, but I suppose there is an outside chance it could happen, even if recent history should have warned us of such a thing.
But I think it's a pretty bigoted thing to say that it would come from conservatives. If you really feel that way, apply for citizenship abroad. That is about as tin-foil hat nutjob crap as I've heard in a long time.
No thank you, I am happy living in this country and love the city I live in. As for thinking it will come from a conservative, that is an easy one, conservatives are the ones that are all for restricting all other rights except for the right to bare arms.
Gun control works great. As long as you're the group that has the guns.
Out of the 5.7 million Jews murdered in the Holocaust, 142,000 were German. The rest came from occupied countries who, obviously, weren't affected by German weapons legislation in the slightest.
I would cite Chavez or Castro as a better example. Such a divide between poor and super rich that the poor supports Chavez and then once in power Chavez expands power for himself making him basically a dictator arming his supporters and disarming those against him. In their mind of the likes of Castro or Chavez the people are now free because of him and don't need guns anymore.
Except for those able bodied males in the group he was targeting for genocide. To that group he issued laws preventing them being armed.
Trying to portray the Nazi genocide as little more than an act of selective gun control is a lot like pretending all of World War II was just a spat over Sudetenland.
Trying to portray the Nazi genocide as little more than an act of selective gun control is a lot like pretending all of World War II was just a spat over Sudetenland.
You can't possibly believe that my post was an attempt to do anything of the sort.
People are suggesting that an armed populace is no deterrent to a maniacal dictator, and are pointing out the relaxation of Germany's gun control laws just before the beginning of the Holocaust. I think it's important to note that, for the group being targeted for genocide, that relaxing of gun control laws did not occur.
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