The same myths, the same spurious comparisons, the same apples to oranges arguments are made so often, one has to wonder does the tooth fairy really place quarters under the pillows of children. The German argument is absurd on its face, see link below. But in order to understand the continuing ridiculous arguments of the insecure gun hugger is sometimes impossible to fathom. An armed society is an uncivilized society in which death is the only result. Need proof. Read the news any day and you see it, and some want more death. So it may interest those who wonder why to check out this book. I haven't read it, but the topic fascinates me. Every day one could find people who believe things that strike most of us as borderline crazy or just plain crazy.
"What don't we know, and why don't we know it? What keeps ignorance alive, or allows it to be used as a political instrument? Agnotology—the study of ignorance—provides a new theoretical perspective to broaden traditional questions about "how we know" to ask: Why don't we know what we don't know?"
'Agnotology: The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance' by Robert Proctor, Londa Schiebinger
Germany
"Unfortunately for LaPierre et al., the notion that Hitler confiscated everyoneÂ’s guns is mostly bogus. And the ancillary claim that Jews could have stopped the Holocaust with more guns doesnÂ’t make any sense at all if you think about it for more than a minute.
University of Chicago law professor Bernard Harcourt explored this myth in depth in a 2004 article published in the Fordham Law Review. As it turns out, the Weimar Republic, the German government that immediately preceded HitlerÂ’s, actually had tougher gun laws than the Nazi regime. After its defeat in World War I, and agreeing to the harsh surrender terms laid out in the Treaty of Versailles, the German legislature in 1919 passed a law that effectively banned all private firearm possession, leading the government to confiscate guns already in circulation. In 1928, the Reichstag relaxed the regulation a bit, but put in place a strict registration regime that required citizens to acquire separate permits to own guns, sell them or carry them."
The Hitler gun control lie - Salon.com
Besides, Omer Bartov, a historian at Brown University who studies the Third Reich, notes that the Jews probably wouldn’t have had much success fighting back. “Just imagine the Jews of Germany exercising the right to bear arms and fighting the SA, SS and the Wehrmacht. The [Russian] Red Army lost 7 million men fighting the Wehrmacht, despite its tanks and planes and artillery. The Jews with pistols and shotguns would have done better?” he told Salon."