Active Shooters in France Kill 648 Men, Women and Children

[Pellinore]

Pathetic display of historical knowledge.
First thing Hitler did was outlawed Jews from owning firearms.
2A was specifically written to keep the government at bay.
Subject is not 1935, it’s 1944.
And yes, the Left hate America.

Nazi guns:
It was not the "first thing." Germans couldn't own guns after WWI as a condition of the Treaty of Versailles, but that was loosened to registration in 1928, before the Nazis even showed up. There was never a collection, though, so a lot of people still had firearms left over from the war. Hitler took over in 1934, and the German Weapons Act four years later in 1938 loosened it even more, and allowed Nazi Party members to own guns without restriction.

The Regulations Against Jews' Possession of Weapons (that's what it was called) wasn't passed until after Kristallnacht in November of that year; during that raid and massacre, Jews (like all Germans) had the legal right to all long arms without restriction, and handguns with a permit. It didn't help, because there simply weren't enough German Jews to stand up to the by-then-entrenched Nazi Party, and non-Jewish Germans weren't about to risk their lives and families. The Nazis didn't need, use, or care that much about guns in order to become dominant.

Second Amendment:
Our government, sure. But the OP and article are about personal guns defending against an invading force.

1935/1944:
I was referencing PM Laval's 1935 gun control measures, which the article cites as evidence that similar gun control on our part would be bad.

 

[Weatherman2020]

Nazi guns:
It was not the "first thing." Germans couldn't own guns after WWI as a condition of the Treaty of Versailles, but that was loosened to registration in 1928, before the Nazis even showed up. There was never a collection, though, so a lot of people still had firearms left over from the war. Hitler took over in 1934, and the German Weapons Act four years later in 1938 loosened it even more, and allowed Nazi Party members to own guns without restriction.

The Regulations Against Jews' Possession of Weapons (that's what it was called) wasn't passed until after Kristallnacht in November of that year; during that raid and massacre, Jews (like all Germans) had the legal right to all long arms without restriction, and handguns with a permit. It didn't help, because there simply weren't enough German Jews to stand up to the by-then-entrenched Nazi Party, and non-Jewish Germans weren't about to risk their lives and families. The Nazis didn't need, use, or care that much about guns in order to become dominant.

Second Amendment:
Our government, sure. But the OP and article are about personal guns defending against an invading force.

1935/1944:
I was referencing PM Laval's 1935 gun control measures, which the article cites as evidence that similar gun control on our part would be bad.

And what occurred after Jews had their guns taken away, mmmmmmm?

 

[Pellinore]

And what occurred after Jews had their guns taken away, mmmmmmm?

The exact same thing that would have happened if they were heavily armed.

Just because it happened after, doesn't mean it happened because.

 

[Weatherman2020]

The exact same thing that would have happened if they were heavily armed.

Just because it happened after, doesn't mean it happened because.

So you think an armed force is no different than an unarmed force in defending themselves.

Thanks for displaying the ignorance of the gun grabbing idiots.

 

[Pellinore]

In this case, that's exactly correct, it is no different because it wasn't decided by a firefight.

Germany was taken over by political means; Hitler ran for office, was appointed Chancellor, and convinced others to support him, they Nazis manufactured a crisis, and he seized power. By the time it got to Kristallnacht, for starters, they had so many non-Jewish German people supporting their warped cause that every Jew in the nation could have been toting a Rambo-style M60 and it wouldn't have made a damn bit of difference.

The idea that the Nazis rose to power because they first disarmed the Jews is looking in the completely wrong direction. That's not where the danger came from.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

What happens when the people with all the power have all the guns.

On June 10, 1944, four days after D-Day, troops of the 4th SS Panzer Regiment surrounded the French village of Oradour-sur-Glane, in central France. The troops surrounded the village, ordered the people to assemble in the village square, and shot those who tried to flee.

The National Socialist forces put women and children on one side, men on the other. The men were confined in six locations, faced down by heavy machine guns. The SS troops set off an explosion then gunned down the men, aiming for the legs before finishing them off at point blank range and setting the dead and dying on fire.

The SS troops locked the women and children in the village church, filled with black smoke from an exploding gas cannister. The Germans threw in grenades, shot indiscriminately, and set the victims on fire. The rest of the village was then looted and set ablaze.

The attackers killed 245 women and 207 children, including six below the age of six months. The 196 men killed included seven Jewish refugees from other parts of France. Out of the 648 people murdered in the village, only 50 could be identified. One woman survived by jumping from a window of the church, breaking her leg and taking a bullet from a Nazi soldier. She lost her husband, son, two daughters, and a grandson only seven months old.

The massacre of Oradour-sur-Glane, the worst atrocity in Nazi-occupied France, was a reprisal for attacks by the French Maquis or Résistance. This mass murder, and the oppression of a nation, were enabled by the systematic disarming of the French people. Stephen P. Halbrook wrote about it in Gun Control in Nazi-Occupied France: Tyranny and Resistance, the first scholarly work on the subject.

Pierre Laval, prime minister in 1935, decreed the registration of firearms for the first time in modern French history. The registration was “aimed at firearms owners at large and did not focus on those responsible for fomenting political violence.” The main effect “was to enhance the power of government over the citizens.” Little did anyone anticipate that “just five years later, France would be conquered by Nazi Germany.”

When the Nazi forces invaded France in May of 1940, the Stalin-Hitler Pact was in force. The powerful French Communist party opposed the war against Hitler and “encouraged friendship with Germans when they occupied Paris.”

In June of 1940, Pierre Laval was deputy prime minister in the government collaborating fully with the Nazis. The previous month the government issued a decree demanding the surrender of all firearms and radio transmitters, on penalty of death. The French were also subject to the death penalty for failing to denounce someone who possessed guns.

As Halbrook shows, few French supported the resistance before the roundups of Jews in July 1942 and the obligatory service declaration in February 1943. After that, support increased and the allies parachuted arms to the Maquis, who still lacked firepower. They trained teens to shoot, and French civilians battled Nazis in Paris with any rifles and pistols they could find.

One French fighter shot a pistol through his pocket and took out two German sentries. Jewish partisans ambushed a German train shouting “Wir sind Juden! Wir sind Juden!” As Maurice Bernsohn explained, “We pounced on them, I tearing a revolver from the belt of a German major,” and he kept the gun “to this day.”

Halbrook also tells the story of Hélène, a young Jewish woman who helped others escape the firing squads. “She was arrested in March 1944 and deported to Auschwitz and Belsen-Belsen,” Halbrook writes, “where she would die just days before the camp was liberated in 1945.” Many others perished in the struggle to liberate Paris.

Pierre Laval’s crusade for a “gun-free France” wound up aiding the murderous National Socialist tyranny that slaughtered the 648 at Oradour-sur-Glane, hardly the only site of Nazi massacres.

Halbrook is also the author of Gun Control in the Third Reich: Disarming the Jews and “Enemies of the State.” Before the Nazis took power, the author notes, the liberal Weimar Republic sought to register, regulate and prohibit firearms. A 1926 order demanded surrender of all firearms and a 1926 Bavarian law barred Gypsies from owning guns.

When the National Socialist German Workers Party took power in 1933, they grabbed the registration records of the Weimar Republic. Nazi official Wilhelm Elfes ruled that weapons belonged only in the hands of the organs of the Reich and the states. In the National Socialist view, nobody needed a firearm for self-defense when the police protected society and sport shooting and hunting were not a “need,” as determined by the government.

Halbrook shows how the National Socialists denied access to firearms to anyone not an adherent of National Socialism. The purge included the Stahlhelm, a veterans group critical of the Nazi regime, and all “unreliable” types, with German Jews a primary target.

In 1896, Albert Flatow won first place in gymnastic events at the Olympic games in Athens. In 1932, Flatow registered three handguns as required by a decree of the Weimar Republic. On October 4, 1938, the Nazis arrested the Olympic champion for possession of the firearms he dutifully registered in 1932. His arrest report stated that “arms in the hands of Jews are a danger to public safety.”

Flatow was turned over to the Gestapo and died of starvation in Theresienstadt Concentration Camp in December 1942. For Halbrook, the lesson is obvious.

“A disarmed populace that is taught that it has no rights other than what the government decrees as positive law is obviously more susceptible to totalitarian rule and is less able to resist oppression.” On the other hand, “an armed populace with a political culture of allowed constitutional and natural rights that they are motivated to fight for is less likely to fall under the sway of a tyranny.” Jump ahead to 2022 and the lessons should be obvious.

Five years ago, few envisioned that the White House would be occupied by the addled puppet of the hate-America left. In the style of the composite character David Garrow described in Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama, Biden ignores Islamic terrorism and targets his domestic opposition. Anyone less than worshipful of the Biden Junta is proclaimed a “domestic terrorist” or “violent extremist,” code for Trump voters and anyone who dares question the 2020 election.

Conservative Christians, Jews, and patriotic Americans are disfavored groups and relentlessly demonized. It disturbs the Biden Junta that these Americans have Second Amendment rights to keep and bear arms.

The Biden Junta exploits mass shootings by criminals to call for a ban on “assault weapons,” a reference to the AR-15. Fully automatic weapons are already banned, but as Halbrook explains, the semiautomatic AR-15 enjoys “common use” protections under the Second Amendment. Such firearms are “typically possessed by law-abiding citizens for lawful purposes” and “chosen by American society,” not the government.

Joe Biden is now spouting nonsense about 9mm bullets, which hints at a ban on handguns. If embattled Americans thought that the Democrats’ endgame is to disarm the people it would be hard to blame them. A disarmed public would be more vulnerable to the sway of a tyranny and attacks such as Oradour-sur-Glane.

That mass atrocity was followed by a National Socialist propaganda campaign claiming that the villagers initiated the battle, that the men of the village died during the fight, and the women and children died from an explosion in a Résistance ammunition dump. To adapt the Cecil Eby title, the victims were caught between the bullet and the lie.

This is what can happen when the people with all the power have all the guns. Moving forward, the struggle is all about memory against forgetting. “Vive la France libre! Vive l’Amérique libre!”

Active Shooters in France Kill 648 Men, Women and Children | Frontpage Mag

What happens when the people with all the power have all the guns.

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...sensible gun control where only the government Good Guys have all the weapons

 

[jackflash]

What happens when the people with all the power have all the guns.

On June 10, 1944, four days after D-Day, troops of the 4th SS Panzer Regiment surrounded the French village of Oradour-sur-Glane, in central France. The troops surrounded the village, ordered the people to assemble in the village square, and shot those who tried to flee.

The National Socialist forces put women and children on one side, men on the other. The men were confined in six locations, faced down by heavy machine guns. The SS troops set off an explosion then gunned down the men, aiming for the legs before finishing them off at point blank range and setting the dead and dying on fire.

The SS troops locked the women and children in the village church, filled with black smoke from an exploding gas cannister. The Germans threw in grenades, shot indiscriminately, and set the victims on fire. The rest of the village was then looted and set ablaze.

The attackers killed 245 women and 207 children, including six below the age of six months. The 196 men killed included seven Jewish refugees from other parts of France. Out of the 648 people murdered in the village, only 50 could be identified. One woman survived by jumping from a window of the church, breaking her leg and taking a bullet from a Nazi soldier. She lost her husband, son, two daughters, and a grandson only seven months old.

The massacre of Oradour-sur-Glane, the worst atrocity in Nazi-occupied France, was a reprisal for attacks by the French Maquis or Résistance. This mass murder, and the oppression of a nation, were enabled by the systematic disarming of the French people. Stephen P. Halbrook wrote about it in Gun Control in Nazi-Occupied France: Tyranny and Resistance, the first scholarly work on the subject.

Pierre Laval, prime minister in 1935, decreed the registration of firearms for the first time in modern French history. The registration was “aimed at firearms owners at large and did not focus on those responsible for fomenting political violence.” The main effect “was to enhance the power of government over the citizens.” Little did anyone anticipate that “just five years later, France would be conquered by Nazi Germany.”

When the Nazi forces invaded France in May of 1940, the Stalin-Hitler Pact was in force. The powerful French Communist party opposed the war against Hitler and “encouraged friendship with Germans when they occupied Paris.”

In June of 1940, Pierre Laval was deputy prime minister in the government collaborating fully with the Nazis. The previous month the government issued a decree demanding the surrender of all firearms and radio transmitters, on penalty of death. The French were also subject to the death penalty for failing to denounce someone who possessed guns.

As Halbrook shows, few French supported the resistance before the roundups of Jews in July 1942 and the obligatory service declaration in February 1943. After that, support increased and the allies parachuted arms to the Maquis, who still lacked firepower. They trained teens to shoot, and French civilians battled Nazis in Paris with any rifles and pistols they could find.

One French fighter shot a pistol through his pocket and took out two German sentries. Jewish partisans ambushed a German train shouting “Wir sind Juden! Wir sind Juden!” As Maurice Bernsohn explained, “We pounced on them, I tearing a revolver from the belt of a German major,” and he kept the gun “to this day.”

Halbrook also tells the story of Hélène, a young Jewish woman who helped others escape the firing squads. “She was arrested in March 1944 and deported to Auschwitz and Belsen-Belsen,” Halbrook writes, “where she would die just days before the camp was liberated in 1945.” Many others perished in the struggle to liberate Paris.

Pierre Laval’s crusade for a “gun-free France” wound up aiding the murderous National Socialist tyranny that slaughtered the 648 at Oradour-sur-Glane, hardly the only site of Nazi massacres.

Halbrook is also the author of Gun Control in the Third Reich: Disarming the Jews and “Enemies of the State.” Before the Nazis took power, the author notes, the liberal Weimar Republic sought to register, regulate and prohibit firearms. A 1926 order demanded surrender of all firearms and a 1926 Bavarian law barred Gypsies from owning guns.

When the National Socialist German Workers Party took power in 1933, they grabbed the registration records of the Weimar Republic. Nazi official Wilhelm Elfes ruled that weapons belonged only in the hands of the organs of the Reich and the states. In the National Socialist view, nobody needed a firearm for self-defense when the police protected society and sport shooting and hunting were not a “need,” as determined by the government.

Halbrook shows how the National Socialists denied access to firearms to anyone not an adherent of National Socialism. The purge included the Stahlhelm, a veterans group critical of the Nazi regime, and all “unreliable” types, with German Jews a primary target.

In 1896, Albert Flatow won first place in gymnastic events at the Olympic games in Athens. In 1932, Flatow registered three handguns as required by a decree of the Weimar Republic. On October 4, 1938, the Nazis arrested the Olympic champion for possession of the firearms he dutifully registered in 1932. His arrest report stated that “arms in the hands of Jews are a danger to public safety.”

Flatow was turned over to the Gestapo and died of starvation in Theresienstadt Concentration Camp in December 1942. For Halbrook, the lesson is obvious.

“A disarmed populace that is taught that it has no rights other than what the government decrees as positive law is obviously more susceptible to totalitarian rule and is less able to resist oppression.” On the other hand, “an armed populace with a political culture of allowed constitutional and natural rights that they are motivated to fight for is less likely to fall under the sway of a tyranny.” Jump ahead to 2022 and the lessons should be obvious.

Five years ago, few envisioned that the White House would be occupied by the addled puppet of the hate-America left. In the style of the composite character David Garrow described in Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama, Biden ignores Islamic terrorism and targets his domestic opposition. Anyone less than worshipful of the Biden Junta is proclaimed a “domestic terrorist” or “violent extremist,” code for Trump voters and anyone who dares question the 2020 election.

Conservative Christians, Jews, and patriotic Americans are disfavored groups and relentlessly demonized. It disturbs the Biden Junta that these Americans have Second Amendment rights to keep and bear arms.

The Biden Junta exploits mass shootings by criminals to call for a ban on “assault weapons,” a reference to the AR-15. Fully automatic weapons are already banned, but as Halbrook explains, the semiautomatic AR-15 enjoys “common use” protections under the Second Amendment. Such firearms are “typically possessed by law-abiding citizens for lawful purposes” and “chosen by American society,” not the government.

Joe Biden is now spouting nonsense about 9mm bullets, which hints at a ban on handguns. If embattled Americans thought that the Democrats’ endgame is to disarm the people it would be hard to blame them. A disarmed public would be more vulnerable to the sway of a tyranny and attacks such as Oradour-sur-Glane.

That mass atrocity was followed by a National Socialist propaganda campaign claiming that the villagers initiated the battle, that the men of the village died during the fight, and the women and children died from an explosion in a Résistance ammunition dump. To adapt the Cecil Eby title, the victims were caught between the bullet and the lie.

This is what can happen when the people with all the power have all the guns. Moving forward, the struggle is all about memory against forgetting. “Vive la France libre! Vive l’Amérique libre!”

Active Shooters in France Kill 648 Men, Women and Children | Frontpage Mag

What happens when the people with all the power have all the guns.

www.frontpagemag.com

The statist left has many political issues from firearm control to space junk & literally every fantasy issue in-between. Virtually these statist left cooked up fantasy issues are meant never to be solved but to remain forever to be used as divide & conquer issues. Narcissists fill the statist left rank & file with their leadership literally being sociopaths(afflicted with all nine levels of narcissism). Below is a link that can explain it all for you in layman terms no less!

 

[Weatherman2020]

LOL. Wow. The new low of the Alt-Right.

Just when I think you people have reached the bottom of the barrel, people like Penguin Boy find a way to hammer out the bottom and dig a new one.

The same police who were helping children cross busy streets were shooting the same children in the back of the head a few years later.

You under the impression it could never happen again?

 

[Rigby5]

No, it doesn't happen arbitrarily. And certainly not to white citizens. To people of color, certainly more often.
The police were overwhelmed on Jan 6th. And if the crowd really "shared" those values, they would have stayed peaceable and NOT stormed the building. But that didn't happen. And that's evident by the video. Lots of video evidence. Let's not even take into account the bogus reason they were there in the first place.

What do you mean?
Do you mean the US government never has and never will murder innocents?
How about the Trail of Tears, Manifest Destiny, the invasions of Mexico, the massacres of the Moro Rebellion of 1912, Vietnam, the US massacres of civilians in the Korean war, the illegal Highway of Death in Desert Storm, the war crimes of Shock and Awe, etc.

If you want to just focus on Jan 6, then remember that the protesting occupier never got past the public areas.
They only got as far as tourists normally go.
They never got to the House or Senate.

 

[Rigby5]

This is propaganda disguised as historical study.

- It appears to argue that Americans should defend our Second Amendment rights in case we are invaded in five years. That was never the purpose or the defense of the 2A.
- France's geopolitical situation in 1935 is drastically different than ours. If we end up getting invaded by Canada or Mexico, I have to say I like our chances.
- Nazi Germany's removal of guns from a persecuted people is nothing like modern American gun control efforts.
- Nazi Germany's persecution of the Jews was also not contingent on their firearm rights being removed.
- Terms such as "the addled public of the hate-America left" are not only childish playground language, but they betray the author's massive bias.
- It's "Bergen-Belsen," not "Belsen Belsen."

If this were a history or politics paper in even a high school class, the writer could expect a glaring F.

The point of the population being armed is more about resistance against government corruption than foreign invasion.
That is because government would provide the guns against an invasion, but would try to confiscate guns in a draconian crackdown.

And a draconian crackdown is exactly what happened in Germany.
The communists and socialists were all easily rounded up and executed because the Weimar Republic had implemented gun control.
Without gun control, Hitler would never have been able to take over, and without gun control, the Holocaust would have been impossible.
The Jews were slowly taken away in moves that were called "relocation", that every one was able to ignore.
If the Jews had guns and could resist, then everyone would have seen the Holocaust for the genocide it really was.

US gun control efforts are just like the Holocaust.
The government created the War on Drugs intentionally to imprison millions of innocent people, mostly Blacks.

 

[Rigby5]

In this case, that's exactly correct, it is no different because it wasn't decided by a firefight.

Germany was taken over by political means; Hitler ran for office, was appointed Chancellor, and convinced others to support him, they Nazis manufactured a crisis, and he seized power. By the time it got to Kristallnacht, for starters, they had so many non-Jewish German people supporting their warped cause that every Jew in the nation could have been toting a Rambo-style M60 and it wouldn't have made a damn bit of difference.

The idea that the Nazis rose to power because they first disarmed the Jews is looking in the completely wrong direction. That's not where the danger came from.

Wrong.
The National Socialists took over by street fighting, and murdering all the political opposition like the Socialists and Communists.
The Nazis were immune to the Weimar gun control laws because they used the loophole of a veterans marksmanship organization.

{...Between 1918 and the mid 1920s, Germany was rocked by murder after murder. The victims all had a connection: they were killed for political reasons. And their deaths were made possible by right-wing extremist groups that played on racism, nationalism, and economic anxiety to stoke fear and hatred. By 1922, at least 354 government members and politicians had been murdered, setting the stage for the Nazi Party, World War II and the Holocaust.
...}

After WWI, Hundreds of Politicians Were Murdered in Germany

Shot in front of their children. Attacked with acid. Murdered while walking away. Germany’s Weimar Republic was a dangerous place for politicians and

www.history.com

Government gun control made these roving gangs of armed brown shirts happen in the Weimar republic.

 

[Rigby5]

The exact same thing that would have happened if they were heavily armed.

Just because it happened after, doesn't mean it happened because.

But it DID happen "because" of Weimar gun control.
Only the Brown shirts had weapons, and they murdered everyone who resisted.

 

[Weatherman2020]

The exact same thing that would have happened if they were heavily armed.

Just because it happened after, doesn't mean it happened because.

There was a period in history where the most powerful government in the world attempted to disarm a bunch of farmers and shop clerks.

The end result was America was born.

There was a time when a powerful army attempted to take a canon away from a bunch of ranchers and shop clerks.

The end result was Texas was born.

 

[badbob85037]

Democrats have already displayed their love of fascist violence.

They say they want a revolution. So let's give it to them and get back to freedom.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

What happens when the people with all the power have all the guns.

On June 10, 1944, four days after D-Day, troops of the 4th SS Panzer Regiment surrounded the French village of Oradour-sur-Glane, in central France. The troops surrounded the village, ordered the people to assemble in the village square, and shot those who tried to flee.

The National Socialist forces put women and children on one side, men on the other. The men were confined in six locations, faced down by heavy machine guns. The SS troops set off an explosion then gunned down the men, aiming for the legs before finishing them off at point blank range and setting the dead and dying on fire.

The SS troops locked the women and children in the village church, filled with black smoke from an exploding gas cannister. The Germans threw in grenades, shot indiscriminately, and set the victims on fire. The rest of the village was then looted and set ablaze.

The attackers killed 245 women and 207 children, including six below the age of six months. The 196 men killed included seven Jewish refugees from other parts of France. Out of the 648 people murdered in the village, only 50 could be identified. One woman survived by jumping from a window of the church, breaking her leg and taking a bullet from a Nazi soldier. She lost her husband, son, two daughters, and a grandson only seven months old.

The massacre of Oradour-sur-Glane, the worst atrocity in Nazi-occupied France, was a reprisal for attacks by the French Maquis or Résistance. This mass murder, and the oppression of a nation, were enabled by the systematic disarming of the French people. Stephen P. Halbrook wrote about it in Gun Control in Nazi-Occupied France: Tyranny and Resistance, the first scholarly work on the subject.

Pierre Laval, prime minister in 1935, decreed the registration of firearms for the first time in modern French history. The registration was “aimed at firearms owners at large and did not focus on those responsible for fomenting political violence.” The main effect “was to enhance the power of government over the citizens.” Little did anyone anticipate that “just five years later, France would be conquered by Nazi Germany.”

When the Nazi forces invaded France in May of 1940, the Stalin-Hitler Pact was in force. The powerful French Communist party opposed the war against Hitler and “encouraged friendship with Germans when they occupied Paris.”

In June of 1940, Pierre Laval was deputy prime minister in the government collaborating fully with the Nazis. The previous month the government issued a decree demanding the surrender of all firearms and radio transmitters, on penalty of death. The French were also subject to the death penalty for failing to denounce someone who possessed guns.

As Halbrook shows, few French supported the resistance before the roundups of Jews in July 1942 and the obligatory service declaration in February 1943. After that, support increased and the allies parachuted arms to the Maquis, who still lacked firepower. They trained teens to shoot, and French civilians battled Nazis in Paris with any rifles and pistols they could find.

One French fighter shot a pistol through his pocket and took out two German sentries. Jewish partisans ambushed a German train shouting “Wir sind Juden! Wir sind Juden!” As Maurice Bernsohn explained, “We pounced on them, I tearing a revolver from the belt of a German major,” and he kept the gun “to this day.”

Halbrook also tells the story of Hélène, a young Jewish woman who helped others escape the firing squads. “She was arrested in March 1944 and deported to Auschwitz and Belsen-Belsen,” Halbrook writes, “where she would die just days before the camp was liberated in 1945.” Many others perished in the struggle to liberate Paris.

Pierre Laval’s crusade for a “gun-free France” wound up aiding the murderous National Socialist tyranny that slaughtered the 648 at Oradour-sur-Glane, hardly the only site of Nazi massacres.

Halbrook is also the author of Gun Control in the Third Reich: Disarming the Jews and “Enemies of the State.” Before the Nazis took power, the author notes, the liberal Weimar Republic sought to register, regulate and prohibit firearms. A 1926 order demanded surrender of all firearms and a 1926 Bavarian law barred Gypsies from owning guns.

When the National Socialist German Workers Party took power in 1933, they grabbed the registration records of the Weimar Republic. Nazi official Wilhelm Elfes ruled that weapons belonged only in the hands of the organs of the Reich and the states. In the National Socialist view, nobody needed a firearm for self-defense when the police protected society and sport shooting and hunting were not a “need,” as determined by the government.

Halbrook shows how the National Socialists denied access to firearms to anyone not an adherent of National Socialism. The purge included the Stahlhelm, a veterans group critical of the Nazi regime, and all “unreliable” types, with German Jews a primary target.

In 1896, Albert Flatow won first place in gymnastic events at the Olympic games in Athens. In 1932, Flatow registered three handguns as required by a decree of the Weimar Republic. On October 4, 1938, the Nazis arrested the Olympic champion for possession of the firearms he dutifully registered in 1932. His arrest report stated that “arms in the hands of Jews are a danger to public safety.”

Flatow was turned over to the Gestapo and died of starvation in Theresienstadt Concentration Camp in December 1942. For Halbrook, the lesson is obvious.

“A disarmed populace that is taught that it has no rights other than what the government decrees as positive law is obviously more susceptible to totalitarian rule and is less able to resist oppression.” On the other hand, “an armed populace with a political culture of allowed constitutional and natural rights that they are motivated to fight for is less likely to fall under the sway of a tyranny.” Jump ahead to 2022 and the lessons should be obvious.

Five years ago, few envisioned that the White House would be occupied by the addled puppet of the hate-America left. In the style of the composite character David Garrow described in Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama, Biden ignores Islamic terrorism and targets his domestic opposition. Anyone less than worshipful of the Biden Junta is proclaimed a “domestic terrorist” or “violent extremist,” code for Trump voters and anyone who dares question the 2020 election.

Conservative Christians, Jews, and patriotic Americans are disfavored groups and relentlessly demonized. It disturbs the Biden Junta that these Americans have Second Amendment rights to keep and bear arms.

The Biden Junta exploits mass shootings by criminals to call for a ban on “assault weapons,” a reference to the AR-15. Fully automatic weapons are already banned, but as Halbrook explains, the semiautomatic AR-15 enjoys “common use” protections under the Second Amendment. Such firearms are “typically possessed by law-abiding citizens for lawful purposes” and “chosen by American society,” not the government.

Joe Biden is now spouting nonsense about 9mm bullets, which hints at a ban on handguns. If embattled Americans thought that the Democrats’ endgame is to disarm the people it would be hard to blame them. A disarmed public would be more vulnerable to the sway of a tyranny and attacks such as Oradour-sur-Glane.

That mass atrocity was followed by a National Socialist propaganda campaign claiming that the villagers initiated the battle, that the men of the village died during the fight, and the women and children died from an explosion in a Résistance ammunition dump. To adapt the Cecil Eby title, the victims were caught between the bullet and the lie.

This is what can happen when the people with all the power have all the guns. Moving forward, the struggle is all about memory against forgetting. “Vive la France libre! Vive l’Amérique libre!”

Active Shooters in France Kill 648 Men, Women and Children | Frontpage Mag

What happens when the people with all the power have all the guns.

www.frontpagemag.com

See, that's the type of Sensible Gun Control the Progressive Left wants to bring to America.