In 1931, Germany’s Weimar Republic discovered plans for a Nazi takeover in which Jews would be denied food and all persons refusing to surrender their guns within 24 hours would be executed.
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson has just been dinged by the liberal media for the nth time for observing that the number of Jews murdered in the Holocaust “would have been greatly diminished” had the Nazis not been able to disarm them. He added, “There is a reason that these dictatorial people take the guns first.”
This contradicts the narrative that gun control is benign and historically progressive and that government is inherently good and the governed are apparently not.
The problem with this view is that firearm registration and prohibition facilitated the Nazi dictatorship and was an essential tool in rendering powerless the Jews and all other “enemies of the state.” Denial of this fact is denial of a factor that led to the Holocaust.
By Stephen Halbrook