Actually it is rather stupid what you say.
What I meant was, that the possession of a firearm was not a prerequisite of any resistance.
An armed jew was a nuisance, an organized and armed jew was a danger.
There were many examples of Jews resisting to the german army, Warzaw is only a very memorable example. Most of them joined Soviet partisans.
Still, you will need organization more than weapons. These you can steal from your killed oppressors at least. But using them in an organized way makes the difference.
But I suppose you have a very naive and simple view how any dictatorship works.
Do you really think the Nazis came to power or the Shoah happened because of the lack of personal handguns ? Things are a little more complicated than that.
Regards
ze germanguy
P.S.
Here is where your argument falls apart.
If we take your theory as fact "
An armed jew was a nuisance, an organized and armed jew was a danger."
If you remove the firearm from either the lone man or the organized group, they were less than zero threat without arms.
It's the firearm that makes resistance possible.
Ever seen "V for Vendetta"?
Dominic: What do you think will happen?
Finch: What usually happens when people without guns stand up to people *with* guns.
An one armed civilian may be a nothing nuisances to a giant occupying army, just like a mosquito is nothing but a tiny nuisance to a man.
But standing against a million tiny nuisanses, even the mighty fall.
On Stephen Perry's ranch near Galveston, Texas, a black cloud of insects settles on a herd of grazing cattle. The cows frantically swish their tails, trying ineffectively to brush off the bugs. One by one the cows drop dead—40 in all. Scientists at Texas A. & M. veterinary laboratories determine that as much as 5 gal. of blood has been sucked from some of the animals, more than half of a cow's normal blood supply.
This is not a scene from a 1950s sci-fi film, but a bizarre aftermath of Hurricane Allen, which early in August inundated coastal areas that were bone-dry because of drought, causing salt-marsh mosquito eggs to hatch. Suddenly the mosquito, slightly larger at ¼ in. long than the common backyard variety, became a major plague. So far, the insects have killed at least 49 cows and horses but no humans, though several Texans have been chased indoors or into cars by the voracious bugs.
Well, if I remember "V as Vendetta" right, the military backs off when the mass of people in Guy Fawkes masks is closing.
This you must realize:
Once you have the people on the street in tens of thousands, every military will start to think twice: How many can we shoot, how long it will take until they rip us apart with bare hands ?
A large mass of people is a very impressive picture and even if they are unarmed you realize very quickly, what the potential of these mass is.
So, the very moment an unarmed mass of people is out on the street, they form a threat you might get under control with police tactics, but quite unlikely with military tactics.
A large armed resistance group, let´s they the French Resistance in occupied France in WWII had to operate under different conditions.
They were unable to take over the control of France, because the German Army, the Gestapo and their french cronies effectively controlled the country.
The use of terrorist tactics then made the life of the Germans harder there, but it still took the military power of the UK, the US and the UdSSR to change this. The Resistance in France helped, was a perhaps locally a deadly threat, but they virtually were unable to kick the Wehrmacht out of France alone.
Same applies for the Jews in Warzaw and wherever they picked up arms: it was brave and honorable, but futile in the end.
So, in case an occupation army will occupy the US, I dare to say, that millions will pick up their weapons. But if they only do this unorganized or only organized locally, their resistance will easily be quelled.
On the other hand, you see today, how difficult it is for a modern army to control a 3rd World country, if there is organized resistance.
So, we might see a watershed here, as it proves more and more difficult for armies to effectively an occupied territory (I.e. Israel, Chechnya, Afghanistan and Iraq). But only if the resistance there gets it´s stuff together.
Leaves the individual right to possess a firearm.
Is it necessary ? Depends upon what you consider safe.
Statistically you are as a german citizen rather safe to become victim of a crime (left out the regional differences and differences between city and countryside).
Still you might feel better when owning a gun.
Americans will be not much different, as I suppose not everybody feels the need to have a gun.
Additionally a lot of Americans seem to have a deep felt distrust against their government.
Militias which organize armed resistance against the federal government are - correct me here - rather a typical American thing.
Again, as the federal government rather seldom clashes with it´s citizens in force, one might endlessly debate the necessity of this.
So, I think your picture is compelling, but leads not in the right direction.
Mosquitos do not worry about families, about their life, about anything else. They attack and nothing else. This you can not beat if coming in masses.
Anyway, I personally do not believe that a firearm will make me safer than not having it.
So, as said before, I will die as a victim of crime and oppression.
Regards
ze germanguy
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