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There are rare times when this “Trib” reader long used with equanimity to reading right-wing viewpoints and polemics becomes disgusted.
This happened to me, when in the May 17 edition I read Stephen P. Halbrook’s “One cannot argue with history,” in which he claims that in 1938 Nazi Germany passed a gun control law that forbid Jews to have guns. |
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mickey
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So, he admits that Hitler denied arms to Jews in 1938, but calls Halbrook a liar because Halbrook thinks Hitler had a reason for doing so, and instead the author claims that Hitler gained nothing from disarming the Jews?
He is partly right. Armed self defense requires arms, knowledge in their use, and the will to use them.
I believe that some, not all German Jews, would have found that will when the doors to their homes were broken down. |
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Those, who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. [Thus,] there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people. — Aristotle, as quoted by John Trenchard and Water Moyle, An Argument Shewing, That a Standing Army Is Inconsistent with a Free Government, and Absolutely Destructive to the Constitution of the English Monarchy [London, 1697]. |
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