BeaverFever BeaverFever:
N_Fiddledog N_Fiddledog:
BeaverFever BeaverFever:
Ok first off a basic fact check: the Nazis didn’t take guns, in fact they slightly relaxed gun laws.
What you're calling a "fact check" is just the other side of an argument. I've heard both sides. Your side seems to depend on posturing, unnecessary wordiness, BS prog words like "problematic" and appeals to authority.
The side that makes better use of facts and makes more sense to me is this one:
National Review: How the Nazis Used Gun ControlYour article is pretty weak, it only talks about what the Nazis did to Jews and citizens of occupied countries, conveniently glossing over the fact that they liberalized gun laws for German citizens.
The guy wrote a book on the subject.
Gun Control in the Third Reich: Disarming the Jews and "Enemies of the State"The article you read is a brief digested listing of keypoints. What you're saying isn't there is. It's just not focused on. It's listed.
Try this one. They go into more detail.
https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/c ... s-gun-grabThen there's this from Hitler later in his career on the general principal of disarming a population you plan to subjugate:
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"The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing. Indeed, I would go so far as to say that the supply of arms to the underdogs is a sine qua non for the overthrow of any sovereignty. So let's not have any native militia or native police. German troops alone will bear the sole responsibility for the maintenance of law and order throughout the occupied Russian territories, and a system of military strong-points must be evolved to cover the entire occupied country." --Adolf Hitler, dinner talk on April 11, 1942, quoted in Hitler's Table Talk 1941-44: His Private Conversations, Second Edition (1973), Pg. 425-426. Translated by Norman Cameron and R. H. Stevens. Introduced and with a new preface by H. R. Trevor-Roper. The original German papers were known as Bormann-Vermerke.
But even if you could argue away gun-grabbing decades before evolving until the day after Kristallnacht there are a litany of historical examples other than just the Nazis pointing at gun-grabbing followed eventually or immediately by authoritarian rule.